2022 Michigan Election

The Michigan governor’s race is critical to whether abortion remains legal in the state. Re-electing Gov. Whitmer will help to protect Michiganders’ reproductive rights.

For three and a half years, the threat of my veto is what has kept Michigan pro-choice.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, 7/6/2022

Source: TIME

• The governor’s veto is the only backstop against the state putting in place a new, total abortion ban: Gov. Whitmer is the last one standing between reproductive rights and the state legislature’s politicians who are hellbent on outlawing abortion.
• A draconian 1931 abortion ban that would throw Michiganders in jail for their health care decisions was poised to go back into effect this summer; thankfully, Gov. Whitmer helped to save Michiganders with a lawsuit that has blocked prosecutors from enforcing the 91-year-old law.
• Gov. Whitmer signed an executive order refusing to extradite people who come to Michigan to obtain abortion care from states that have banned it.

   

Dixon celebrated the U.S. Supreme Court decision to end the federal constitutional right to abortion — and she would support banning abortion in Michigan with no exceptions.

I am a pro-life candidate – no exceptions.

Tudor Dixon, 9/29/21

• A fringe, inflammatory, right-wing media personality endorsed by former President Donald Trump, Dixon cheered the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade — calling it “a day for celebration.”
• Dixon would extend the suffering of child rape survivors: If they become pregnant, she’d force the children to give birth in all cases except when a doctor proves they’ll die without an abortion — and she says having the baby would be “healing” for the rape survivors.
• If elected governor, Dixon would work to enforce Michigan’s 1931 abortion ban, which criminalizes abortion with no exceptions for rape, incest, or the health of the patient.