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Informed Consent for Abortion
In 2022, the Michigan Constitution was amended to guarantee that all people have "a fundamental right to reproductive freedom, which entails the right to make and effectuate decisions about all matters relating to pregnancy, including but not limited to . . . abortion care [and] miscarriage management."
However, one Michigan statute (MCL 333.17015), requires the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) to make specific information available to abortion providers and their patients. MDHHS does not necessarily endorse all the information it is required to make available under this statute.
UPDATE (as of 6/26/2024): Based on a recent state court ruling, certain requirements under MCL 333.17015 are temporarily suspended. Therefore, PATIENTS ARE NOT CURRENTLY REQUIRED TO RECEIVE, VIEW, OR COMPLETE ANY WRITTEN MATERIALS DEVELOPED BY MDHHS BEFORE RECEIVING ABORTION SERVICES. As relates to both providers and patients, those materials have been temporarily removed from the website. Until further notice, providers must still perform a "coercion to abort screening" under MCL 333.17015a by using the Screening Tool and Protocol; this screening may be performed at any time with no mandatory waiting periods.