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.
Federal agents are trying to figure out who is responsible for leaving a device that damaged a women’s clinic that provides abortions in Detroit.
Rep. Thad McCotter signed a pledge this week saying if he is elected he will appoint cabinet members and judges who share his belief that abortion should be illegal in the United States.
Four Michigan Congressmen have signed a letter to Washington D.C. Mayor Vince Gray demanding that he fall in line with federal restrictions on spending federal money for abortions.
Michigan Planned Parenthood leader Lori Lamerand said today that extremists in Congress are holding the budget hostage over abortion concerns.
Anti-abortion rights activists in Auburn delivered over 10,000 petition signatures to the city council Monday night demanding they stop or limit a Planned Parenthood operation in the city.
Planned Parenthood and the issue of abortion have been the target of Republicans around the country as they’ve taken control of legislatures in the past two months, but now the issue is hitting home for the city of Auburn Hills.
Planned action Tuesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee to take up a bill to ban partial birth abortions has drawn sharp criticisms not only of abortion rights advocates, but from the Republican leadership.
As Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives attempt to eliminate all federal funding for Planned Parenthood, the data shows that tens of thousands of Michigan women receive much of their preventative reproductive health care from the organization.
An Indiana woman is fighting with the state of Florida to get her dying, HIV-positive daughter released from the Broward Correctional Facility. However, Jessica Bussert says the state is refusing to release her 27-year-old daughter Betsie Gallardo and also is withholding intravenous nutritional support.
Scientists from Hannover Medical School and Ulm University have discovered a peptide that prevents HIV from taking over blood cells, reports the English language news site The Local.
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