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.
Congressman Bart Stupak says that while he is leading the charge to prevent any healthcare reform from using tax payer funds for abortion, if health care reform legislation makes it to the floor of the U.S. Congress and includes funding for abortions, he will support it.
In a video featured on the conservative blog RightMichigan.com, Stupak, a Democrat from Menominee, says:
“I offered an amendment that says no public funding for abortion that’s been the law of the land for many many decades and we lose that vote. Let’s say we lose that vote– we need 218 to win–let’s say we get 217 and we lose. Would I vote against health care? If I had a chance to vote my conscience I probably would not. I probably would still vote for the health care bill at the end of the day.”
This is another moment of message confusion from Stupak and the abortion question. In July Michigan Messenger reported that Stupak had entered into negotiations with Congressman Henry Waxman about the fate of health care and state abortion laws.
That happened after Stupak, co-chair of the House Pro-Life Caucus, sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying any health care reform bill that contained provisions to fund abortions would be “unacceptable.”
Stupak’s response to the audience that at the end of the day, having been given an opportunity to vote on the abortion issue and lost, he would support the health care reform was greeted with jeers from the audience. The video was shot at a Cheboygan town hall meeting Oct. 23, and was presented by the Heritage Foundation’s blog The Foundry.
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