Reproductive Rights
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Mike Rogers tries to distance Senate campaign from past attempts to ban IVF
Former US Rep. Mike Rogers says he supports protecting access to in vitro fertility treatment—but his record of opposing reproductive care suggests otherwise.
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VP Kamala Harris warns Michiganders about Trump’s threats to abortion rights
Abortion is protected in Michigan, but Republican-led efforts to enact a nationwide abortion ban could still jeopardize those rights.
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Biden blasts Trump’s support of a nationwide abortion ban
President Joe Biden took Trump to task for his support of a nationwide abortion ban and his role in repealing Roe v. Wade, criticizing him for “taking away women’s freedom,” putting women’s lives in danger, and unleashing “cruelty and chaos all across America.”
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Republicans want to use a 150-year-old law to ban abortion nationwide
Project 2025, a conservative blueprint for a second Trump administration, calls for the Justice Department to start enforcing the Comstock Act of 1873. The old law bans the mailing of “anything designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion,” which could include medical instruments.
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Abortion rights group files lawsuit to expand access to reproductive care in Michigan
Reproductive rights advocates are suing the state in an attempt to overturn old, Republican-passed regulations on abortion in Michigan.
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Michigan attorney general urges Supreme Court to protect access to medication abortion
A lawsuit filed by anti-abortion groups could disrupt access to abortion—even in Michigan, where reproductive rights are constitutionally protected.
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Michigan’s medical students are fired up about reproductive healthcare
Learn how Michigan medical students are navigating their education in a post-Roe world.
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Study: 65,000 rape-caused pregnancies in states with abortion bans
“Thousands of girls and women in states that banned abortion experienced rape-related pregnancy, but few (if any) obtained in-state abortions legally, suggesting that rape exceptions fail to provide reasonable access to abortion for survivors,” the study stated.
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Michigan Republicans align against abortion rights amid attempt to flip US Senate seat
Several Republican candidates running for an open US Senate seat in Michigan all oppose abortion rights. But will Michiganders buy what they’re trying to sell?
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Biden vows to ‘restore’ nationwide abortion rights in second term
During Tuesday’s event, the president and vice president highlighted several new measures the administration is taking to strengthen reproductive health care access, criticized extreme abortion bans, and highlighted the stakes of the 2024 election for reproductive rights.
