Pro-choice forces are working to keep abortion legal in Michigan with a ballot initiative

The year before Roe, Michigan voters defeated a referendum to legalize abortion. Now activists are compelled to try again

Beth Morris is a 63-year-old homemaker whose pink Planned Parenthood shirt and clipboard would hardly betray her as a moderate Republican.

But here she is, in the middle of an abortion rights rally on the University of Michigan's campus in Ann Arbor, collecting signatures to support a constitutional amendment to keep abortion legal in one of America's swingy purple" states.