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| Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Photo Credit: Michigan Municipal League / Flickr |
“We stopped elective surgeries here in Michigan. Some people have tried to say that that type of a procedure is considered the same and that’s ridiculous,” the governor said. “A woman’s healthcare, her whole future, her ability to decide if and when she starts a family is not an election [she may have meant elective], it is a fundamental to her life. It is life-sustaining and it’s something that government should not be getting in the middle of.”
Gov. Whitmer has been criticized for enacting heavy restrictions on activities in her state, so her characterization of abortion seems especially strange. Why is it that allowing citizens to buy plants and seeds at grocery stores is dangerous, but elective abortion surgeries are not? Her stance appears to value partisan values over public safety, and she is willing to appear hypocritical to defend it.
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