oday, Barbara Listing, President, Right to Life of Michigan, responded to Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s anti-life fall policy priorities. The Governor’s stated objectives included the passage of the Reproductive Health Act which would include the repeal of longstanding health regulations and safety standards for abortion clinics, including the repeal of laws that require licensing and inspection, the removal of informed consent – and the 24-hour waiting period to review consent documents – for an abortion, and the removal of restrictions on taxpayer funding for abortion. Removal of parental consent for a minor child seeking an abortion has also been included in prior versions of the Reproductive Health Act.

“Governor Whitmer is wildly out of step with Michiganders as she works to push through the most extreme anti-life agenda this state has ever seen. The Governor is using Proposal 3 as a Trojan horse to remove common-sense provisions meant to protect women and children seeking or undergoing an abortion, as well as basic parental rights, provisions a large majority of even those who voted for Proposal 3 support,” stated Barbara Listing, President, Right to Life of Michigan. “This blatant affront to women’s health and safety could have only one goal – expand the abortion industry’s bottom line.”