Michigan Anti-Abortion Group Seeks to Revive Amendment Challenge

Right to Life of Michigan and activist parents are asking a federal court to reinstate their lawsuit challenging the state constitution’s reproductive rights amendment, saying it violates the federal constitution.

The organization appealed a lower court decision dismissing the case for lack of standing, alleging the amendment harms the group by preventing it from lobbying for and sponsoring state laws protecting minors and their parents, Right to Life said Monday in an opening brief filed in the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. The parents had standing because the reproductive rights amendment interferes with their right to control ...