42 Mich. App. 352 - People v. Bricker’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “[t]here is [a] sufficient state interest in both the protection of the health and safety of a pregnant woman and the protection of [the] society as a whole from the practice of medicine by persons not licensed as physicians to justify continued application of the abortion statute to those abortions performed by non-physicians.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 244 Mich. App. 429 - People v. Higuera

2. “In any prosecution under this section, it shall not be necessary for the prosecution to prove that no such necessity existed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 244 Mich. App. 429 - People v. Higuera