Lansing, MI — News outlets reported that Governor Whitmer will be vetoing each prolife provision from the 2022 state budget. The vetoed funding included $16 million for prolife initiatives including money for pregnancy centers, adoption advertising, and on-campus assistance for pregnant and parenting students. The 
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Lansing, MI — Today, the Michigan Legislature passed the 2022 state budget, which includes several new prolife provisions. Right to Life of Michigan President Barbara Listing said, “Our prolife leadership in the Legislature understands the need to invest in pregnancy help as an alternative to 
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Lansing, MI — Yesterday, Right to Life of Michigan filed an amicus curiae brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade. The Supreme Court will likely hear oral arguments in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case in the fall. Right 
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Lansing, MI — The Women’s Right to Know Act was introduced today in the Michigan House. Sponsored by Rep. Sue Allor, HB 5086 addresses three areas of informed consent for women seeking abortions: abortion pill reversal, heartbeat/miscarriage awareness, and prenatal diagnosis of a disability. Right 
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Grand Rapids, MI — On May 17, the U.S. Supreme Court took up the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The case involves Mississippi’s ban on abortion past 15 weeks of pregnancy. The central question of the case is whether a state can ban 
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Lansing, MI — A ban on targeted abortions was introduced Thursday in the Michigan House. House Bills 4737 & 4738 would ban abortions targeted at babies not just diagnosed with Down syndrome, but any disability, as well as babies targeted for reasons of sex or 
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Lansing, MI — The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has begun implementing a provision requiring informed consent for coronavirus vaccines developed using cell lines taken from aborted babies. The provision is in a pandemic relief supplemental bill signed into law by Governor Gretchen 
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Lansing, MI — Today, the Michigan House passed pandemic supplemental spending bill HB 4047, which includes language requiring informed consent for coronavirus vaccines developed using tissue taken from aborted babies. The Senate voted to pass the bill yesterday. The bill now goes to Governor Whitmer’s 
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Lansing, MI — Right to Life of Michigan supports HB 4189, which would increase funding in Michigan for promoting adoption, pregnancy help, and pregnancy resources for college students. The $15 million total budget supplemental is supported by bill sponsor Rep. Mary Whiteford (R-Allegan County) and 
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Lansing, MI — Right to Life of Michigan supports language in the Michigan House’s coronavirus budget supplemental bill requiring informed consent for vaccines developed using tissue taken from aborted babies. The language in the bill states vaccine recipients “shall be provided with information or informed 
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