Blog tagged as Abortion

(Source: MIRS.news, Published 07/13/2022) Gov. Gretchen Whitmer joined other Democratic governors Wednesday when she signed an executive order that ensures protection for people traveling to Michigan to obtain an abortion, as well as for the Michigan providers who help them.

(Source: MIRS.news, Published 07/08/2022) Near a Grand Rapids brewery in late June, a group of Reproductive Freedom For All circulators experienced their very-own "Fyre Festival" – as their anticipated 75 visiting signers evolved into a swarm of 1,200.

(Source: MIRS.news, Published 07/07/2022) Michigan's Republican-led Legislature asked the appellate court Wednesday to overturn a lower court's preliminary injunction stopping enforcement of the abortion-ban law.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer vowed to “fight like hell” to prevent the loss of reproductive rights in Michigan, but compliance concerns may stop her from packing a punch when it comes to the abortion rights ballot initiative.

(Source: MIRS.news, Published 06/27/2022) As Michigan's 1931 abortion ban lingers in a temporary hold, some members of the OB-GYN community warn that it's exemption to preserve the life of a mother "is actually very unclear."