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Listen: With abortion rights on the ballot in Michigan, women are telling their stories
One patient already had two small children and was trying to free herself from an abusive relationship. Another ended up in Michigan after trying to get care in her home state of Ohio; she was handed a Bible at a crisis pregnancy center but not abortion pills. A third thought her childbearing years were behind her and was looking forward to returning to the workforce. All three women sought abortion care at the Northland Family Planning Center in Sterling Heights, a city in metro Detroit. And all told their stories to reporter Kate Wells as they bedded down in the clinic for nine days in...
Listen: With abortion rights on the ballot in Michigan, women are telling their stories
One patient already had two small children and was trying to free herself from an abusive relationship. Another ended up in Michigan after trying to get care in her home state of Ohio; she was handed a Bible at a crisis pregnancy center but not abortion pills. A third thought her childbearing years were behind her and was looking forward to returning to the workforce.
All three women sought abortion care at the Northland Family Planning Center in Sterling Heights, a city in metro Detroit. And everyone told their stories to reporter Kate Wells as she embedded herself in the Clinic for nine days in August and September. Wells' story, produced in partnership with KHN, aired on NPR ’s “Morning Edition” on November 3rd. (The story contains audio recordings of a woman's abortion that some listeners may find disturbing.)
Northland was launched in 1976 by Renee Chelian. She had voted in 1966, seven years before Roe v. Wade, underwent an illegal abortion at the age of 16. In recent months, patients have traveled to Northland's three locations from Wisconsin, Indiana, Oklahoma and as far away as Florida and Texas.
But abortion rights in Michigan are far from certain. So far, courts have blocked enforcement of a 1931 law that bans the procedure without exceptions for rape or incest. But the legal wrangling was confusing. On August 1st, for example, this is what quick court rulings meant Abortion in Michigan was legal at breakfast, illegal at lunch, and legal again at dinner.
Michigan voters will decide on November 8 whether abortion remains legal in the state. What is called Suggestion 3 would explicitly enshrine the right to abortion and other reproductive rights in the Michigan Constitution.
This story is part of a partnership that includes Michigan Radio, NPR and KHN.
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