To: The Michigan State House
Tell Michigan Politicians — Let the Voters Decide If Insurance Coverage Should Exclude Abortion!
The Legislature is hearing an initiative that could force private-sector insurance companies to no longer offer abortion coverage to Michigan residents. Let the Michigan voters decide!
Why is this important?
Michigan politicians have invoked a rarely-used legislative maneuver to try to ban private insurance coverage for abortion. The goal is to make coverage for abortion only available through an impractical “rider” system, and eventually decrease women’s access to this particular form of care. The proposed measure has no exception for survivors of rape, incest or health of the woman and is out-of-step with Michigan voters.
Michigan women would be harmed if this passes. Jenni Lane of Ann Arbor is thankful for insurance coverage that allowed her to make the "incredibly difficult" decision to end a pregnancy that would not survive. Having the health coverage she needed allowed her to choose the safest procedure.
Nearly two out of three Michigan voters do not want to see this harmful measure become law. In fact, this proposal is so extreme that it was vetoed by two separate Republican governors.
The Detroit Free Press “believe[s] that this measure isn’t fair, that it is cruel and intrusive. […] To allow hundreds of thousands to subvert the law of the land by larding a legal medical process with special requirements is contrary to the spirit of democracy.
If you think voters, not politicians, should decide if insurance coverage should exclude abortion, let your voice be heard!
Michigan women would be harmed if this passes. Jenni Lane of Ann Arbor is thankful for insurance coverage that allowed her to make the "incredibly difficult" decision to end a pregnancy that would not survive. Having the health coverage she needed allowed her to choose the safest procedure.
Nearly two out of three Michigan voters do not want to see this harmful measure become law. In fact, this proposal is so extreme that it was vetoed by two separate Republican governors.
The Detroit Free Press “believe[s] that this measure isn’t fair, that it is cruel and intrusive. […] To allow hundreds of thousands to subvert the law of the land by larding a legal medical process with special requirements is contrary to the spirit of democracy.
If you think voters, not politicians, should decide if insurance coverage should exclude abortion, let your voice be heard!