I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
A symbolic bill designed to force state legislators to take a stand on certain abortion procedures appears to be rearing its head once again this week, about a month after Democratic legislators managed to fend off a vote on the bill.
The Lansing-based Citizens for Traditional Values on Monday sent an e-mail alert to its members titled, “Partial Birth Abortion Vote Coming May 21-22; Forces Finally Negotiate Their Surrender.” The e-mail said House Speaker Andy Dillon, D-Redford Township, had “personally (face-to-face) assured” Right to Life Michigan President Barb Listing that Senate Bill 776 would come to a vote this week.
The bill would ban the removal of a fetus until the head or fetal trunk is outside a woman’s body with the intention of aborting it. The procedures banned by the bill are collectively referred to by opponents as partial birth abortion, though the term has no medical relevancy.
SB 776 allows for exceptions only in situations of threat to a woman’s life. It is a replica of a federal law that was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in January. Michigan is covered under the federal law.
Supporters of the bill failed to secure a vote in April during a right-to-life legislative day. It passed the Republican-led State Senate bill in January, and has stalled since in the Judiciary Committee.
CTV, which lists its mission as “to promote and defend Judeo-Christian values in society and government,” urged its members to contact their state representatives and pressure them to support the bill.
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