Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who has consistently aligned herself with the abortion industry giant, Planned Parenthood, which operates 19 Michigan health centers, and vowed to “fight like hell” to maintain unrestricted abortion access in Michigan, celebrated a victory this week, with a preliminary injunction against Michigan’s 1931 law that criminalizes abortion.
Whitmer said, “The opinion from the Michigan Court of Claims is clear and sends the message that Michigan’s 1931 law banning abortion, even in cases of rape or incest, should not go into effect even if Roe is overturned. It will help ensure that Michigan remains a place where women have freedom and control over their own bodies.”
Pro-abortion activists, industry lobbyists, and elected officials like Whitmer have been in panic mode since the leaked Supreme Court draft surfaced and have quickly initiated pre-emptive legal processes.
While some look at the possibility of Roe v. Wade being overturned as an opportunity to start a new conversation about abortion at the state level, a press release issued by Whitmer referred to the issue as “beyond settled” and cited statistics saying that 65.7% of Michiganders are in favor of the repeal of the 1931 law.
Reporting for WGRT – Jennie McClellan
Updated 5/23/2022 – An earlier version of this story referred to Planned Parenthood centers as “abortion clinics”. According to Planned Parenthood Michigan’s website, they “provide the abortion pill at all of our health centers in Michigan” and they “provide in-clinic abortion procedures at our Ann Arbor East, Flint, and Kalamazoo health centers.” The story was updated to refer to Planned Parenthood clinics as “health centers” to align with the term they use to describe themselves.
