LANSING, Mich. — A group that wants to make abortion illegal in Michigan has failed to collect enough signatures to qualify its issue for the November ballot.
Michigan Citizens for Life needed to turn in at least 317,757 signatures of valid state voters to elections officials by Monday. The group likely collected fewer than 300,000 signatures, organizers said.
The group wants to change the state constitution to define a person legally as existing from the moment of conception. If successful, the initiative could have sparked a legal challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion.
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The Michigan Citizens for Life campaign was hurt because Right to Life of Michigan and the Michigan Catholic Conference did not support it.
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