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Whitmer and Becerra discuss attacks on IVF and abortion rights at metro Detroit roundtable
(Michigan Advance) During a Thursday roundtable discussion in Farmington Hills, Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer pushed back on what she said were continuing Republicans efforts to take away women’s reproductive freedom.
“Every effort to take away the ability of a woman to access health care has ripples that people can’t even imagine,” said Whitmer.
Whitmer was joined by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, who praised Whitmer’s effort to support reproductive freedom policy and initiatives. She supported the 2022 amendment voters passed guaranteeing the right to an abortion in Michigan’s constitution and signed several abortion rights measures last year.
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“A lot of Americans think that [Dobbs] is only about abortion. It is not,” Becerra said. “It is about access to health care.” .................(more)
https://michiganadvance.com/2024/03/29/whitmer-and-becerra-discuss-attacks-on-ivf-and-abortion-rights-at-metro-detroit-roundtable/