By Dave Andrusko

Hmmm. What would you expect from a story headlined “As Michigan becomes abortion destination, foes and advocates expand services”? Not much. Was I surprised? Let’s see.

For starters, reporter Robin Erb has covered abortion for many years. And, of course, that means every protective law that has been struck in Michigan in recent years is something that OBVIOUSLY should have x-ed out even earlier.

For example, “onerous building regulations on abortion clinics,” to us, the kind of commonsense requirements/safeguards for women that abortion clinics love to ignore.

Now that the state has become an “abortion destination”—a “haven”—“Michigan continues to work out the edges of access,” Erb writes.

“[A]bortion rights advocates have called for an end to the state’s remaining parental consent law, while Northland Family Planning Centers, which operates clinics in southeast Michigan, will appear in Michigan Court of Claims Tuesday to challenge three remaining abortion restrictions: Michigan’s 24-hour waiting period, the state’s requirement for counseling, and a law that bans advanced practice registered nurses and physician assistants from providing abortions.”

In other words, obliterate any and all limitations on abortion.\

Already, “just eight states are more ‘protective’ of abortion than Michigan, according to Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive-health research organization that supports abortion,” she adds.

The state’s abortion clinics are having a field day. “About 1 in 6 of the patients that seek an abortion at Planned Parenthood’s Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids clinics are from out of state, according to data provided to Bridge by Planned Parenthood.”

After celebrating the “progress” made by the abortion industry Erb gets to “abortion opponents” who “also step up the fight.” Pregnancy Help Centers have indeed “stepped up the fight.”

“Some will continue to offer non-medical services — instead offering supplies — clothes and diapers and baby furniture, for example — or parenting classes, for example,” according to Executive Director Carolyn Doyle of the  Michigan Coalition For Pregnancy Wellness (MICO).

“But for those who offer clinical care — like Grand Rapids PRC that was one of the first crisis centers in the state to offer ultrasound services and began expanding those services in 2020 — the new organization will set standards for medical care,” Erb writes.

Alas, right in the middle of the section on pregnancy help centers, Erb writes (uncritically) about the bogus attacks on them under the all-purpose slur that they are “deceptive.”

Not a word that pregnancy help center vigorously deny these allegations or anything about the all-out assaults launched by the likes of California Attorney General Rob Bonita, the New York Department of Health, the back of the hand from the AMA, not to mention the pressure exerted by the abortion industry’s most favorite protecter, Joe Biden.

At the end, Erb writes that Doyle said the coalition “will give pregnancy centers a stronger voice.”

Genevieve Marnon, legislative director of Right to Life of Michigan, agreed: 

 

“Women set on an abortion know where to go, yet often women want to explore their options and better understand if support exists to make a choice for life,” she said.