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Abortion Rights

Whitmer urges Michigan Supreme Court again to decide whether state constitution protects abortion rights

The governor pledged to “keep fighting like hell to protect Michigan women.”

By Steve Neavling

Aug 4, 2022

With so much uncertainty hanging over abortion in Michigan, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer renewed her call Thursday morning for the state Supreme Court to decide whether the state constitution protects reproductive rights. Whitmer’s plea comes three days after the Michigan Court of Appeals caused enormous confusion by ruling that county prosecutors can enforce the state’s 1931 abortion ban...

The Michigan Supreme Court in the Hall of Justice building.

Judge grants restraining order from Gov. Whitmer to block prosecutors from enforcing abortion ban

Whitmer filed the temporary measure Monday night following the Michigan Court of Appeals ruling allowing criminal charges for abortion providers

By Randiah Camille Green
Aug 2, 2022
Michigan Court of Appeals rules that county prosecutors can charge abortion providers in the state, despite injunction

Planned Parenthood said it will continue to provide abortions

By Steve Neavling
Aug 1, 2022
Whitmer urges FDA to remove barriers to medication abortion

Pills that terminate pregnancies have taken on more urgency after Roe v. Wade was overturned

By Steve Neavling
Jul 21, 2022
Whitmer signs general budget, vetoes anti-abortion items

By Allison Donahue, Michigan Advance
Jul 21, 2022
Whitmer executive order blocks extradition for out-of-staters getting an abortion in Michigan

In effect, the order makes Michigan a refuge for abortion services travel

By Steve Neavling
Jul 13, 2022
In the span of 10 days, the Supreme Court took us back 10 decades

Courting hypocrisy

By Abdul El-Sayed
Jul 12, 2022
Gov. Whitmer calls on Biden to OK over-the-counter birth control pills

The letter comes the same day that Michigan-based Perrigo asked the FDA to approve its birth control pill for over-the-counter sale, the first time a pharmaceutical company had done so

By Lee DeVito
Jul 11, 2022
Record number of signatures collected to put abortion rights on Michigan ballot in November

The ballot measure would enshrine abortion rights in the state’s constitution

By Steve Neavling
Jul 11, 2022
Clown court: Extremists don’t care about torching SCOTUS’s legitimacy

On fire

By Jeffrey C. Billman
Jul 6, 2022
On the front lines of the fight for reproductive rights

An interview with Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel

By Abdul El-Sayed
Jul 5, 2022
Be careful using period-tracking apps after abortion ruling, AG Nessel warns

Some cell phone apps may provide a digital trail of incriminating data about a person’s decision to end a pregnancy

By Steve Neavling
Jul 5, 2022
Activists cover anti-abortion billboard with pro-choice message in Detroit

The anonymous group vows to ‘aid and abet abortion’

By Randiah Camille Green
Jul 1, 2022
Lake Superior is trending on Twitter for defending women’s rights with savage clap-backs

You know it’s a shame when the social account for a lake has more sense than the U.S. Supreme Court

By Randiah Camille Green
Jun 29, 2022
Kent County prosecutor vows to enforce Michigan’s 1931 abortion ban

Despite injunction declaring abortion still legal in Michigan, Christopher Becker is taking us back 100 years

By Randiah Camille Green
Jun 28, 2022
Democrats need to do more than fundraise and say ‘see you in November’

Enough already

By Jeffrey C. Billman
Jun 28, 2022
Beaumont-Spectrum backtracks on abortion stance after ‘Roe v. Wade’ decision

The state’s largest health system sends mixed messages about abortion

By Steve Neavling
Jun 27, 2022
Sen. McMorrow slams conservative Christians for eroding rights in the name of religion

‘Religious freedom in this country does not mean you get to inflict your religious view on others,’ the Royal Oak Democrat said

By Steve Neavling
Jun 27, 2022
Capitol Pride strikes chord of resistance in newly post-Roe Michigan

By Laina G. Stebbins, Michigan Advance
Jun 27, 2022
Whitmer implores Michigan Supreme Court to decide whether state constitution protects abortion rights

The Governor says the court ‘must act now’ on abortion rights

By Steve Neavling
Jun 24, 2022
Abortion rights advocates pledge to fight for reproductive autonomy in Michigan

For now, abortion is still legal in Michigan, but that could change

By Steve Neavling
Jun 24, 2022

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