A group of Progressive women gathered on the steps of the Michigan Capitol Building in Lansing on Oct. 13 to urge the state’s voters to reject a proposed amendment to the Michigan Constitution that they say would deregulate the state’s thriving abortion industry and put women in danger.
Kristen Day, executive director of a national organization called Democrats for Life, told the crowd, “It doesn’t matter if you’re pro-choice or pro-life. This is about … making sure that (women) are not put in unsafe situations when faced with an unplanned pregnancy.”
Democrat Monica Galloway, president of the Michigan Municipal League and a former Flint, Michigan, city council member, said in her remarks, “The amendment would take away the right for parents to be informed if their daughter is seeking an abortion … (the) amendment extends the fundamental right to abortion to children and blocks any restrictions on it if the restriction infringed on the person’s autonomous decision-making.”…