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National | ABORTION: As was done successfully in California, Michiganders are poised to hand their governor an embarrassing rebuke | Bob Jones

The successful recall of California Gov. Gray Davis may have been the first voter revolt this year, but it likely won't be the last. Next target: Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, the former Canadian beauty queen who vetoed a popular anti-abortion measure on Oct. 10. Pro-life leaders believe the veto could be the governor's undoing—and they don't even have a movie star waiting in the wings.

The vetoed bill, known as the Legal Birth Definition Act, sailed through the state legislature with lopsided margins (74-28 in the House and 25-11 in the Senate). The bill targeted partial-birth abortions by setting a precise, legal definition of a live birth: The moment any part of a baby's anatomy emerged outside its mother's body, the baby would be considered an independent person entitled to all the protections of the law. Theoretically, a doctor who then crushed a baby's skull to complete an abortion could be charged with murder.

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October 25, 2003, Vol. 18, No. 41

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