Michigan Legislature Update

Submitted by laura on 22 April 2008 - 10:15am.

You can tell it's an election year in Michigan. Michigan's legislature is still wasting time and our taxpayer dollars on anti-women's health bills. Some state legislators are currently pushing through an unnecessary and wasteful bill, which would prohibit a certain type of abortion that was already banned by the ultra-conservative Supreme Court of the United States.

Speaker Andy Dillon can stop this, but he needs to hear from people like you.

Tell your Representative and Speaker Dillon to stop wasting our tax dollars on an issue designed only to gain personal political favor from anti-women's health care forces.

Michigan Senate Bill 776 prohibits a rarely used, yet medically necessary abortion method, but does not provide an exception to protect a woman's health.

Furthermore, this medical method is already outlawed in Michigan and across the country.

Tell your Representative and Speaker Dillon that rather than spending their time and our money on divisive unnecessary legislation, we should work together to promote policies that support a woman's ability to make informed and responsible health care decisions. These are common sense policies that would promote:

• medically-accurate, age appropriate, abstinence plus sex education;
• access to family planning clinics;
• equal prescription coverage for contraceptives;
• and, make sure emergency contraception is available to women who need it.

Tell your representative and Speaker Dillon to work for progress in Michigan instead of continuing the wasteful and divisive antics that now define the Michigan legislature.

Email Your Representative and Speaker Dillon today.