Lansing, MI — Today the Michigan Board of State Canvassers voted unanimously to allow another sample to be drawn for the Michigan Values Life petition drive. The new sample will be a larger sample based on standard Bureau of Elections procedures. One point of concern 
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Lansing, MI — Today the Michigan Bureau of Elections issued a staff report recommending that the Board of State Canvassers refuse to certify the Michigan Values Life petition drive to end dismemberment abortions. Their report claims there were not enough valid signatures in the sample 
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Lansing, MI — The Michigan Bureau of Elections resumed the vetting process for the petition drive to end dismemberment abortions. The Bureau set June 1 as the deadline for challenges to the signatures. Right to Life of Michigan President Barbara Listing said, “It’s been nearly 
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Lansing, MI — On The April 16 episode of David Axelrod’s “The Axe Files” podcast, Governor Gretchen Whitmer said the following to defend allowing abortion facilities to operate during the pandemic: “We stopped elective surgeries here in Michigan. Some people have tried to say that 
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Lansing, MI — In light of her order requiring all outpatient facilities to postpone non-essential procedures, Right to Life of Michigan is calling on Governor Gretchen Whitmer to clarify that elective abortions are a non-essential procedure. Abortion procedures require the use of personal protective equipment 
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Lansing, MI — A bill to ensure women who are prescribed the abortion pill are given information about the abortion pill reversal protocol was introduced yesterday in the Michigan Legislature. House Bill 5374 was introduced on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. House Bill 5374’s 
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Grand Rapids, MI — January 22 is the 47th memorial of the U.S. Supreme Court decisions Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, which legalized abortion through all nine months of pregnancy for any reason. Since these decisions in 1973, abortion has taken the lives 
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Lansing, MI — Right to Life of Michigan filed an amicus curiae brief on January 2 asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in the June Medical Services LLC v. Gee case on 
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***Editor’s Notes: Due to coronavirus-related delays, the Bureau of Elections has temporarily paused checking our petitions. They finished counting the signatures, but can’t finish the checking process until after the stay at home executive order has been lifted. The actual total of submitted signatures was 
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Lansing, MI — Thursday, December 12, has been set as the target end date for collecting signatures for the Michigan Values Life petition to ban the late-term dismemberment abortion procedure in Michigan. Right to Life of Michigan is projecting to have 363,000 signatures believed to 
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