Author: Jack Bley
This Sunday is Sanctity of Human Life Sunday, a day for Americans to focus on the value of each and every human life. It is celebrated every year on the Sunday closest to the anniversary of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decisions Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, which legalized abortion in every state for any reason through all nine months of pregnancy. The decisions were overturned in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on June 24, 2022.
Despite the reversal of Roe v. Wade, the number of abortions nationwide have sadly increased, and this is primarily due to the easy availability of the abortion pill which can be ordered on-line without any physician oversight. In Michigan we have no way of knowing the exact number of abortion anymore, plus complications associated with physical of chemical abortions do not have to be reported. So much for the mantra that abortion is a woman’s HEALTH issue!!
On November 4th, 2025, bills 5201-5203 were introduced in the Michigan House of Representatives to restore abortion reporting and abortion complication reporting in Michigan, an essential step forward in ensuring women do not go into abortion blind. Women have a right to know accurate information about the procedure they are considering undergoing or medicine they are considering taking. This begins with data that demonstrates associated safety or risk. We know the life of an unborn child is lost, and now the dangers to women are being shielded from the public.
If passed, these bills would restore laws Michigan had for over four decades that required the reporting on the number and type of abortions, as well as abortion complications in the state of Michigan. The laws were repealed by radical pro-abortion lawmakers in the previous session, ending decades of oversight and transparency. This repeal came during the time that the same group of lawmakers voted to completely deregulate the abortion industry. What we found in the state’s final 2024 abortion report was a 38% spike in the number of abortion complications!
Join us in supporting transparency and a woman’s right to know. Contact our Congresswoman Pauline Wendzel to let her know how you feel:
Phone: (517) 373-1799
Email: PaulineWendzel@house.mi.gov