Posted on 06/07/2022 11:52:52 AM PDT by ChipMarne
The University of Michigan launched a new initiative to fight for abortion in anticipation of the potential reversal of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 court decision that legalized abortion in all 50 states.
The Supreme Court has not yet released an opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson, a case that concerns Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban, but a leaked opinion from Justice Samuel Alito appeared to show a majority in favor of reversing the 1973 decision.
The university stated that a ban on the abortion of preborn babies “has potential impacts across all of the University of Michigan’s missions,” according to a news release from Michigan Medicine. That is why it formed the “task force on abortion-care access.”
The state never repealed its 1931 law that criminalized abortion, so if Roe is reversed, Michigan would automatically have a ban on it, though the criminal code is being challenged in court. A judge who regularly donates to Planned Parenthood temporarily blocked the law.
University leaders, including the president, have stated that the taxpayer-funded college will take a strong stance in favor of abortion.
“The specter of a complete ban on abortion care in Michigan is worrisome. I strongly support access to abortion care,” President Mary Sue Coleman (pictured) stated in the news release. “We have a female-dominated institution; we care about our own communities as well as those we serve through clinical care and education.”
Abortion prohibitions, according to Coleman, could “affect U-M’s medical teaching, our research, and our service to communities in need.”
Spokesperson Rick Fitzgerald declined to answer when asked for comment on the task force and how many abortions were committed at the university hospital between 2021 and June 2022.
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Tell me, oh please tell me, how a university is impacted by the fact a woman cannot commit infanticide?
These people are insane.
I don’t get it. You’d think a university wouldn’t want future potential students to be aborted. They obviously can’t think long term. LOL
Not that I care, but it really is something like that.
Does every U of M woman student deserve at least 1 abortion?
They're going for the short term benefit to the university. If women are allowed to have babies, they are more likely to stay home to care for them and their enrollments will go down. Someone has to fill all of those slots for majoring in Women's Studies and basket weaving, you know.
It’s not a repeal of Roe vs Wade that’s their problem. It’s those nasty, nasty individual states that can then individually choose how to treat abortion.
Not insane; evil.
Is there still time to abort the Wolverine head coach, just askin.
Need to seriously start discussions about defunding universities. Taxpayers do not need to be funding institutions that are just spewing propaganda vs. actually educating people which is the stated point of why so many billions of dollars are funneled into them.
“We have a female-dominated institution; we care about our own communities as well as those we serve through clinical care and education.”
That seems chauvinist.
UM, like most colleges, is no longer a serious institution.
Most racist university ever ecperienced.
Rich white women kill their kids the most.
Some things never change.
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