Battle Creek Inquirer, September 25, 2012 by Nolan Perry In one important way the Michigan bill HB 5711, passed by the House and currently in the Senate, echoes anti-abortion legislation in Mississippi. The proposed Mississippi constitutional amendment expressly said what this Michigan bill legally presupposes: the fertilized human ovum, zygote, is a person entitled to […]
August 30, 2012
Colorado Independent, August 30, 2012 by Sofia Resnick On a Friday morning in September 2005, 22-year-old Brittany Wilson sat in a Planned Parenthood clinic a mile away from her home in Sioux Falls, S.D., and bawled her eyes out. Ten days before, she had called the clinic to schedule an abortion. Three days before her […]
August 2, 2012
ACLU Blog, August 2, 2012 by Alexa Kolbi-Molinas It’s been an interesting few weeks for women’s rights and health in the courts. First, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the state can force a doctor to tell a patient that women who have abortions are more likely to commit suicide than those who […]
July 26, 2012
Michigan State News, July 26, 2012 by Rachel Jackson With only 19 hours public notice, the Senate Judiciary Committee met Thursday morning and pushed through a controversial anti-abortion bill that sparked controversy in the House of Representatives last month. At the end of a two-hour session almost solely devoted to the abortion bill, the committee […]
July 17, 2012
SF Gate, July 17, 2012 by KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Women riled over last month’s silencing of a female Democratic lawmaker who said “vagina” during a House debate about anti-abortion legislation and another who said “vasectomy” are pushing back at what they say is a war on women. Members of the Progressive Change […]
July 11, 2012
Michigan Live, July 11, 2012 by Roberto Acosta MUNDY TOWNSHIP, MI — Genesee County and state officials voiced concerns a package of bills they said threatens women’s reproductive rights during a roundtable discussion at the Holiday Inn Gatway Center Wednesday evening. Among the speakers including state Rep. Charles Smiley, D-Burton, Burton Councilwoman Ellen Ellenburg and […]
June 29, 2012
Think Progress, June 29, 2012 by Annie-Rose Strasser Republicans are in complete upheaval over Obamacare, fired up by the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the law yesterday. They have continuously claimed that the government is ramming this legislation down the throats of the American people, and now they are calling it an unwanted financial burden […]
June 26, 2012
RH Reality Check, June 26, 2012 by Beverly McPhail “Vagina” is not a dirty word, although legislators in the state of Michigan seem to think so. Recently, in response to the debate over a strict anti-choice bill that places onerous obstacles in the path of women seeking legal abortion, State Representative Lisa Brown used the […]
June 19, 2012
Jezebel, June 19, 2012 by Erin Gloria Ryan Maybe he just wasn’t ready to be the father of such a harsh ban. Michigan’s Republican governor Rick Snyder has apparently asked, all hush-hush-like, that the most odious parts from the state’s now-infamous new set of abortion restrictions be removed from consideration by the legislature — according […]
June 19, 2012
CBC News, June 19, 2012 by Author Eve Ensler flew in to join performance A US lawmaker who says she was barred from speaking in the Michigan House because Republicans objected to her saying the word “vagina” during debate over anti-abortion legislation performed The Vagina Monologues on the Statehouse steps — with a hand from […]
June 17, 2012
Michigan Live, June 17, 2012 by Paula Holmes-Greeley On June 14, the Muskegon Chronicle printed an article entitled “Anti-abortion bill approved by state House” written by Tim Martin of the MLive Lansing Bureau. It did not in any way explain the gravity of HB 5711 and its effect on the women of this state, their […]
June 17, 2012
Huffington Post, June 17, 2012 by Mitchell Bard When the Republican-controlled Michigan House of Representatives banned a Democratic representative from speaking because she used the word “vagina” in debating an anti-abortion bill (which has been called the “most extreme” in the nation), the story went national. Progressive sites like The Huffington Post and TPM jumped […]
June 14, 2012
Freep.com, June 14, 2012 by Kathleen Gray Freedom of speech has it limits – at least in the state House of Representatives. State Reps. Lisa Brown, D-West Bloomfield, and Barb Byrum, D-Onondaga, were told today that they wouldn’t be recognized to publicly speak on any matters before the House because of comments they made Wednesday […]
War on Women 
September 25, 2012
0