Organizers of a ballot measure to enshrine abortion rights in the Michigan constitution said they turned in more voter signatures than any other constitutional amendment in state history to qualify for the November ballot.

Ballot measures to change Michigan's constitution must collect at least 425,059 voter signatures, but Planned Parenthood Advocates of Michigan said in a news release that 753,759 voters from every county in the state signed onto the abortion rights amendment to place it on the ballot for voters.

If the state's elections panel certifies the Reproductive Freedom for All amendment to appear on the ballot, voters could decide the future of abortion access in Michigan after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that affirmed a national constitutional right to abortion for nearly half a century.

Michigan’s near-total abortion ban provides no exceptions for abortion in cases of rape or incest. It does provide an exception for abortions "necessary to preserve the life of (any pregnant woman)." Opponents of the law have said that the ban does not provide a clear definition of what might warrant performing lifesaving abortion and who makes that determination.

The Reproductive Freedom for All amendment proposes a new and general right to reproductive freedom in Michigan, including the right to access abortions and birth control without political interference.

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