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I'm concerned for my listeners in Michigan.

It's not just the state's ratio of right wing magnet jobs to reasonable human beings that has me worried for all my listeners in Michigan and other states and the United States.

And it's not just the two Republicans on Michigan's obscure board of canvassers that have me worried.

A quick digression. Those two Republican appointees to that board last week blocked an abortion rights amendment to the state constitution

from appearing on the ballot this November in Michigan for absolutely absurd reasons.

Something about a typo in the tax to the measure a couple of words being too close together.

But what these two Republican Fox are really worried about what Republican Fox all over the country are worried about right now is another state doing what Kansas just did voters in Kansas as you may recall overwhelmingly came down in favor of abortion rights.

And voters are going to do the same in other states red states and purple states as soon as they have a chance more than 750,000 eligible voters in Michigan signed petitions.

To get the amendment onto the ballot this November close to double the number of signatures required.

So yeah, that thing is going to pass if and when it makes it out of the ballot in Michigan.

And it still might make it out of the ballot this November a lawsuit has already been filed what I'm concerned about today right now is a 1931 law that came back into effect in Michigan after the Supreme Court overturned Roe V Wade.

That 1931 law outlaws selling or administering drugs with the intent to procure miscarriage or produce abortion.

The law is currently on hold while challenges make their way through the court system in Michigan.

But it turns out banning abortion isn't the only thing that 1931 law does.

But first when we talk about medication abortion and we have talked about medication abortion a lot on this show recently.

We're referring to too hard to pronounce at least for me drugs, my fifth pistrone and my so pro stalled or M&M's as I prefer to call them to avoid mispronouncing them.

Two medications that were taken together effectively induce miscarriage and terminate of pregnancy.

They're safe, they're effective, women can self administer these drugs at home.

And they're relatively recent developments.

These drugs were first approved for use by the FDA in 2000.

So how did this law again a law passed in Michigan in 1931 ban medications that wouldn't be available for decades.

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