Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP)

Michigan imposes a variety of burdensome requirements on abortion providers that are not imposed on other health care providers, including:

Restrictions on Where Abortions May Be Performed

Among the most common TRAP regulations are those restricting the performance of abortions to hospitals or other specialized facilities, which place medically unnecessary and costly requirements on doctors and can decrease the availability of abortion care for women. Michigan has such regulations, including:

Providers of abortion services at all stages of pregnancy must be licensed as freestanding surgical outpatient facilities; only those physicians' offices and facilities where less than 50 percent of the patients annually served undergo abortion procedures are exempt.  Mich. Comp. Laws Ann. § 333.20115 (Enacted 1978; Last Amended 1999); Mich. Admin. Code r. 325.3802(d), (h).

Administrative, professional qualification, and physical plant requirements are imposed on the surgical outpatient facilities.  Mich. Admin. Code rr. 325.3822, .3874; Mich. Comp. Laws Ann. § 333.20821 (Enacted 1978), Mich. Comp. Laws Ann. §333.2835 (Enacted 1978; Last Amended 2002).

Restrictions on Who May Perform Abortions

Michigan prohibits certain qualified health care professionals from performing abortions.

A court held that Michigan's pre-Roe abortion prohibition is constitutional as applied to non-physicians.  Mich. Comp. Laws Ann. § 750.14 (Enacted 1931); People v. Bricker, 208 N.W.2d 172 (Mich. 1973).