Michigan House Passes Bills To Prevent Abortion Coercion
A person also couldn't threaten to cut off legally required financial support, such as financial aid or employment, if a woman decides to keep a child.
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A person also couldn't threaten to cut off legally required financial support, such as financial aid or employment, if a woman decides to keep a child.
Supporters say the procedure is gruesome and cruel.
Anti-abortion advocates say the procedure, called dilation and evacuation, is essentially the "dismemberment" of a fetus.
While searching his vehicle, police discovered at least a dozen jars containing what is thought to be human tissue -- fetal tissue by some reports.
Democrats, who have called the bills redundant, opposed them after Republicans rejected attempts to also make it a crime to coerce a woman to stay pregnant against her will.
Protests were held at 14 Michigan sites of Planned Parenthood, part of nationwide protests at 290 locations.
Backers say coerced abortions are a real problem and detractors counter that they already are illegal.
State Democratic Representative Sarah Roberts of St. Clair Shores co-sponsored a bill that would overturn the law.
The new law requires residents or businesses wanting health insurance coverage for abortions to buy extra coverage.
The vast majority of people in this state don't want this ugly policy. A lot of them are extremely offended by it."
If lawmakers vote to restrict insurance coverage of abortions in Michigan, it would affect a small number of abortions because the vast majority already are paid for out of pocket.
Michigan abortion foes have collected enough signatures to put a proposal before lawmakers to ban abortion coverage from health plans unless a separate policy is bought.
Right to Life of Michigan says taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for other people's abortions.
A Washtenaw County man who uses his car to spread an anti-abortion message is suing the city of Ann Arbor and its police chief over what he says is the violation of his free-speech rights.
Supporters say the legislation protects religious freedom and is needed particularly in the wake of the federal health care law mandating employer-provided birth control in their health plans.
Michigan abortion clinics will need a state license and must check to make sure women are not being bullied or pressured into getting an abortion under a new law that took effect Sunday.
A federal judge has blocked the Obama administration from requiring Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan to provide mandatory contraception coverage to his employees.
A state House committee has approved bills to overhaul Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, leaving out anti-abortion provisions.
A bill that would have required women to undergo vaginal ultrasound examinations before they get abortions won't continue through the House.
The Michigan legislature is seeing new abortion-related proposals that would prohibit some insurance coverage of the procedures and mandate ultrasound examinations.
Forty years ago Tuesday the Supreme Court made abortion legal nationwide in the decision of Roe versus Wade.
It may take days, weeks or even longer to sort out the avalanche of bills enacted in the Michigan Legislature's lame-duck session, as majority Republicans put their stamp on policies dealing with topics as diverse as property taxes, medical marijuana and cockfighting.
The Michigan Legislature gave final approval early Friday to a set of abortion regulations that supporters described as protecting women but opponents denounced as a backdoor assault on the right to terminate pregnancy.
It's the legislation that prompted Michigan's "vagina" controversy.
Ken Cuccinelli aspires to be the next governor of Virginia after spending four years trying to deny women's health care rights, blocking Obamacare and forcing his ideology and personal beliefs on the Commonwealth of Virginia.
