(Bloomberg) -- Michigan voters will decide this fall whether the state will preserve the right to legal abortions after a coalition of reproductive rights groups collected more than enough signatures to put the question on the November ballot.

The proposal would keep abortion legal in one of the nation’s key swing states, and preserve the right to, “carry out decisions without political interference about all matters relating to pregnancy, including birth control, abortion, prenatal care, and childbirth.” The coalition needed 425,000 signatures to get the measure on the fall ballot and acquired 754,000.

If the state’s voters approve the measure with a 51% majority, abortion will remain legal. The amendment to the state constitution would also override a 178-year-old ban that was passed in 1846 and updated with harsher penalties in 1931. The amendment would also end a legal battle waged by Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer before the Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion.

“Abortion rights will now literally be on the ballot here in Michigan,” Democrat Senator Mallory McMorrow wrote on Twitter. “If this is any indication, the majority here in Michigan who believe in protecting abortion access are speaking. Loudly.”

Whitmer filed a lawsuit in April, even before a draft of Justice Samuel Alito’s memo was leaked, revealing that the court’s conservative majority planned to overturn the 1973 Roe decision. Whitmer’s lawsuit seeks to get the State Supreme Court to rule that newer amendments to the state constitution override the 1931 ban, which has been dormant since Roe went into effect. 

With Roe overturned, the 1931 law is in place. It isn’t being enforced because a State Court judge issued a temporary stay while the Supreme Court weighs Whitmer’s lawsuit.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, a Democrat, and five county prosecutors have all said they would not enforce a ban if Whitmer’s lawsuit fails.

The signature campaign, called Reproductive Freedom for All, is being led by the ACLU of Michigan, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Michigan and a nonprofit called Michigan Voices. 

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