SW News: In a letter sent to all registered parishioners in the Archdiocese of Detroit, Archbishop Allen H Vigneron has pleaded with Catholics to reject an extreme ballot proposal on abortion slated for Michigan’s November 8 election.

The letter — sent via mail to hundreds of thousands of Catholic households in southeast Michigan — began arriving in mailboxes in the last week of October.

The Detroit archbishop said that Proposal 3, also known as the “Reproductive Freedom for All” constitutional amendment would have “vast and extreme” consequences for Michigan if it gets passed, turning the state into “ground zero” for abortion extremism in the United States.

“We are quickly approaching the November 8 election, during which voters in Michigan will decide on Proposal 3, an amendment to the state constitution that would allow unregulated abortion-on-demand through all nine months of pregnancy,” the archbishop wrote.

The danger of Proposal 3, the archbishop and others have said, is that its intentionally vague language would invalidate virtually all other laws in the state intended to regulate abortion, turning the gruesome procedure into a sort of “super right” in the state’s constitution.

"If abortion is turned into an “individual” right, then Proposal 3 would apply to all individuals in the state, including children. This would strip parents of the right to be involved in their child’s decision to seek an abortion or even being informed of a minor’s medical decisions at all," he wrote.

Experts have predicted Michigan would become one of the nation’s preferred destinations for “abortion tourism” given the broad license the proposal would grant to the abortion industry in the state.

This amendment would take Michigan far beyond what was allowed for abortion under Roe v. Wade. In the half century since Roe, dozens of laws have been passed to regulate abortion. Under this proposed amendment, those protections would be gone, and abortion would essentially be unrestricted and unregulated.