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A response from a senator regarding his stance on the Michigan Abortion Referendum (Proposal B). The letter was received in response to a meeting with a member of the Michigan Abortion Referendum Committee.

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A response from a senator regarding his stance on the Michigan Abortion Referendum (Proposal B). The letter was received in response to a meeting with a member of the Michigan Abortion Referendum Committee.
Description
During the beginning of 1972 members from the Michigan Abortion Referendum Committee visited the offices of every State Representative and Senator (both in Michigan and Washington D.C.), in order to ask the legislators to support a ballot proposal that if voted in would allow licensed physicians to legally perform abortions. The following is a letter received from a senator regarding his position on whether or not the Referendum should be added to the 1972 ballot.
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Bibliographic Citation
Michigan Abortion Referendum Committee (1972). Michigan Abortion Referendum Committee records. [Notations taken from one on one meetings with legislators and later processed for official Committee records]. Michigan Abortion Referendum Committee Records (Box 1, Folder 37 Referendum count 1972).
Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Contributor
Michigan Abortion Referendum Committee
Creator
Senator J.E. McConley and the Michigan Abortion Referendum Committee .
Date
1972
Extent
1 letter, handwritten on the back of a questionnaire.

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