Anonymous ID: 945f47 July 23, 2022, 6:57 p.m. No.16792209   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>2223

Whitmer vetoes funding for pro-life pregnancy care, ban on embryo-destructive research in Michigan

 

LANSING, Michigan (LifeSiteNews) – Michigan Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued several line-item vetoes Thursday for the state’s $22.2 billion education budget, including cutting provisions that would have supported pregnancy support options except abortion and stem-cell research excluding the use of human embryos.

 

The Detroit News reported that the budget contained $1 million for “pregnant and parenting student services” at community college and university campuses, with language supporting recommendations for care, delivery, foster care, adoption or family planning but forbidding abortion referrals, as well as $5 million for “ethical stem cell/fetal tissue research,” excluding “any research on aborted fetal tissue.”

 

In her veto message, Whitmer claimed that the provisions “would create a gag rule preventing reproductive health-service providers from even mentioning abortion and otherwise make it harder for women to get the health care they need,” and more generally “harm women’s health care.”

 

Whitmer further claimed that the items were unconstitutional on the grounds that the Michigan Constitution gives institutions of higher education “general supervision of its institution and the control and direction of all expenditures from the institution’s funds,” yet the language at issue “deprives an institution of higher education with the supervisory control and budgetary independence provided by those sections.”

 

More at: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/michigan-gov-vetoes-funding-for-pro-life-pregnancy-care-ban-on-embryo-destructive-research/