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.
An Owosso man who was gunned down while standing in front of Owosso High School protesting abortion has been named the Operation Rescue “Person of the Year.”
James Pouillion, 63, was a well known face in both Owosso and Flint for his anti-abortion protests. He was allegedly gunned down by Harlan Drake. Drake has been charged with the murder of Pouillion as well as the murder of a gravel pit owner from the Owosso area. He was allegedly planning an assault against a real estate broker as well.
“Jim Pouillon gave his ‘last full measure of devotion’ to the cause of life, and it is our privilege to award him with Operation Rescue’s fourth annual Person of the Year Malachai Award,” said Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue.
Of course the man the anti-abortion movement hailed as a hero, was more complicated than being a side walk preacher and sign waiving protester. Pouillion’s own son came out against his father Sept. 17, saying:
“I don’t think he really cared about the unborn,” said Dr. James M. Pouillon, a Grand Rapids podiatrist, who had not spoken to his father since 2001. “I don’t think he was really pro-life.”
So if the senior Pouillion was not “really pro-life,” what motivated him?
The son had this to say:
“You could speak with a couple of hundred people who don’t agree with me, so who is right? I’m not going to try to yell louder than my dad’s friends,” he said.
The son also said his father used his abortion stance to terrorize women and said his father abused his mother, Mary Lou Kadera. The two divorced in 1987 and she died in a 2001 car accident.
In a 1992 interview with The Flint Journal, the activist acknowledged years of marital problems, including a fight where he pushed his wife into a piano. Three days after the fight, he told the Journal that “the Holy Ghost came on me.”
Operation Rescue ignored this information, instead focusing on the civil case against a Flint abortion doctor Pouillion used to protest. That doctor has been accused of continuing an abortion after a patient said she wanted to end it. Operation Rescue and other anti-abortion groups have called for criminal charges in the case, and the press release on Pouillion announces the doctor, Alberto Hodari, has put his abortion clinic up for sale.
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