Judge temporarily blocks abortion prosecutions

A judge is granting Governor Whitmer's temporary restraining order preventing county prosecutors from taking up abortion cases.

The Michigan Court of Claims ruled in May the state attorney general and anyone she supervises should not enforce the 1931 abortion ban for the time being.

The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled Monday that county prosecutors are local officials, and not state officials, so they were not bound by the injunction.

In response to the Court of Appeals ruling, Governor Whitmer's attorneys filed the temporary restraining order.

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