内容摘要：Diamond traders conduct business at a market in Surat, India, on April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Diamond traders conduct business at a market in Surat, India, on April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

DETROIT (AP) — A judge on Tuesday struck down Michigan’s 24-hour waiting period before an abortion, saying it conflicts with athat locked abortion rights in the state constitution in 2022.

“Michiganders have the fundamental right to reproductive freedom, including the right to abortion care, and the state cannot deny, burden or infringe upon this freedom barring a compelling state interest to protect the health of the individual seeking care,” Judge Sima Patel said.The waiting period had been in place for years, though Patelearlier in litigation in 2024.

The judge said a mandatory 24-hour delay “exacerbates the burdens that patients experience seeking abortion care.”Patel also overturned a regulation that required abortion providers to provide a fetal development chart and information about alternatives, declaring them “coercive and stigmatizing.” The judge stopped a requirement that only a physician, not other health professionals, can perform an abortion.

The lawsuit was filed by Northland Family Planning Centers and a group called Medical Students for Choice.

Michigan’s attorney general and health director agreed that the challenged regulations were unconstitutional, though state attorneys were assigned to defend them in court.Lala Rudge poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film ‘It was just an accident’ at the 78th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (Photo by Lewis Joly/Invision/AP)

Lala Rudge poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film ‘It was just an accident’ at the 78th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (Photo by Lewis Joly/Invision/AP)A Thai Air Force officer adjusts the cap of a member of an honor guard in preparation for the arrival of Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto at the Government house in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

A Thai Air Force officer adjusts the cap of a member of an honor guard in preparation for the arrival of Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto at the Government house in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)Children play in the waves on the Yemeni island of Socotra on Sept. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)