Michigan Abortion Activists Want to Push Abortion Pills, Put Pro-Life People in Prison
Abortion advocates gathered in Lansing on Thursday to urge Michigan’s incoming Democratic trifecta to push a radical agenda.
They want Michigan Democrats to expand abortion pills that kill babies and hurt women, they want to protect anyone who mails aboriton pills illegally to another state, and they want to create a state-level Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act that would put pro-life people in prison for helping women find abortion alternatives or praying or singing at abortion centers.
Shanay Watson-Whittaker, director of Michigan campaigns for Reproductive Freedom for All, called for a state FACE Act that would penalize pro-life free speech, along with a shield law to enable illegal abortion pill sales. Paula Thornton Greear, president and CEO of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, listed expanded access to the abortion pill among her top priorities, along with repeal of the state’s 24-hour waiting period and parental notification requirements.
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The federal FACE Act was aggressively enforced by the Biden administration’s Department of Justice against pro-life demonstrators engaged in sidewalk counseling and clinic protests. Multiple activists received multi-year prison sentences.
A subsequent Justice Department review of more than 700,000 internal records found that Biden-era prosecutors requested average sentences of 26.8 months for pro-life defendants compared with 12.3 months for pro-abortion defendants, collaborated closely with groups including Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation to identify and monitor activists, and in some cases withheld evidence or authorized aggressive arrest tactics. President Trump later pardoned 23 pro-life individuals convicted under those prosecutions.
Thornton Greear told the roundtable that “Incremental progress is not enough anymore, and Michigan has a real opportunity to take a lead across this country. We need things written into law. Executive orders are not strong enough; they can be torn down and broken, and they end. So we need to collectively push to have things written into law. An executive order is a promise written in pencil.”
Michigan voters added a right to abortion to the state constitution in 2022.
Prior Democratic majorities repealed some earlier restrictions, yet abortion advocates argued that remaining pro-life laws must still be eliminated.
