Make A Call to Urge a Key Committee to Support the Reproductive Health Act
By MUUSJN on Wednesday, September 20th, 2023
Call Your State Representative 1-517-760-6214
(The ACLU Constituent Connector Line. It connects your call to your Rep)
& Call the Health Policy Committee Clerk Melissa Sweet, 517-373-5176
Ask Her to Inform Committee Members That You Support The Women’s Reproductive Act (HB 4949- 4959)
Abortion rights were added to the Michigan Constitution last fall.
Now legislators need to protect these rights in 2023
The Michigan Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Network (MUUSJN) and its Interfaith Reproductive Justice Coalition, along with a broad range of organizations such as the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, NARAL and Inclusive Justice, offered their support for the Michigan Reproductive Health Act (RHA) when the Michigan Health Policy Committee met last week on September 21, 2023. The Health Policy Committee gave notice today that it will meet tomorrow morning and the Reproductive Health Act is on their agenda.
So I’m asking for your immediate help of making two phone calls:
to the Committee Clerk and to your State Representative (see above).
(Just leave a message if no one answers the phone.)
Our Coalition believes strongly that all women should be treated with respect and dignity. Their freedom to choose an abortion should not be limited by their income or by policies that reduce access to health care. Here are examples how the RHA will take down barriers to women’s choice that still exist even though abortion rights were added to the Michigan Constitution:
- State funded Medicaid would be allowed to cover all pregnancy related health care, including abortions;
- Private health insurance companies would be allowed to offer abortion coverage as part of their standard health insurance packages;
- It would protect women from being treated as criminals for having a miscarriage or a still birth;
- It would eliminate a mandatory 24-hour waiting period before any abortion can performed;
- It would end medically unnecessary abortion clinic requirements that force clinics to shut down, greatly reducing a access to health care for people in northern Michigan.
For more information on the Reproductive Health Act, click HERE.
Passage in the House Health Policy Committee is a first step in adopting legislation to assure that Michigan women and their families can exercise their right to accessible, affordable abortions regardless of their income or where they live.
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