A Michigan court just cleared the path for broader reproductive access by permanently blocking three of the state’s lingering abortion restrictions: the 24-hour mandatory waiting period, the state-required informed consent paperwork, and the physician-only rule that barred advanced practice clinicians from performing abortions. Judge Sima G. Patel of the Michigan Court of Claims ruled that all three violate the state’s Reproductive Freedom for All amendment—an amendment approved by voters in 2022 that now serves as Michigan’s strongest legal safeguard for reproductive care.