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.
Dr. Ken Edelin nearly went to jail for performing a legal abortion. In October 1973, just months after the U.S. Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade, Edelin performed an abortion on a 17-year-old girl who had come with her mother to request the procedure at the Boston hospital where Edelin worked as an obstetrician/gynecologist. Both [...]
A symbolic bill designed to force state legislators to take a stand on certain abortion procedures failed to move Wednesday, representing at least a momentary failure for an anti-abortion group pushing for its passage this week. House Democrats spent hours in caucus yesterday debating how to proceed on the Senate Bill 776, which would ban [...]
Michigan House Speaker Andy Dillon, D-Redford Township, is negotiating with Michigan Right to Life to bring to a House vote a symbolic bill banning certain abortion procedures, according to the anti-abortion organization. The Republican-led state Senate in January passed Senate Bill 776, which would prevent so-called partial birth abortions, defined in the bill as removing [...]
Last week’s revelation by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control that one-quarter of teen-age girls have at least one sexually transmitted disease came as no surprise to some southeast Michigan health providers, who say such an epidemic is the fruit of a widespread failure to teach teens about sex. The study, released last Tuesday at [...]
A new University of Michigan study has found that administering the human papillomavirus vaccine based on a woman’s risk factors could keep the vast majority of eligible women from getting the cancer-fighting vaccine. The results support a federal recommendation that all females ages 11 to 26 should get the vaccine, the study’s lead researcher said. [...]
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