Shiawassee Times

I’m filing a lawsuit to keep abortion legal in Michigan. With SCOTUS’ willingness to overturn Roe v Wade, I'm using my authority as governor to go directly to Michigan's Supreme Court to urge them to decide if abortion is constitutional. It’s bold but necessary. Here's why: 

First, I want to be extremely clear: however we personally feel about abortion, health – not politics – should drive important medical decisions. We need to trust our friends, family, and neighbors to make the decisions that are best for them, and keep politicians out of it.  

You may not know that Michigan has an abortion ban on the books from 1931. Currently, this outdated, unconstitutional law is superseded by the decision in Roe v. Wade. However, if Roe is overturned in a few weeks, the ban goes into effect. Abortion becomes illegal. 

If that happens, nearly 2.2 million women lose access to legal abortion. Let me put that into perspective for you. They lose their reproductive freedom, economic freedom, and are denied the right to chart their own destiny. 

No matter what happens to Roe, I am going to fight like hell and use all the tools I have as governor to ensure reproductive freedom is protected. Today in court, I represent all those who deserve the freedom to choose their own future. That’s a fight worth having.

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