LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has sent several letters to Washington in recent days, and on Monday, she asked the Biden administration to make birth control available over the counter.

Whitmer’s plea follows an application from HRA Pharma to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make birth control available over the counter. Her letter can be read here.

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“We all need to get creative and use every tool in our toolbox to protect reproductive freedom in Michigan and across the United States,” Whitmer said in the press release. “We must pull out all the stops to make it easier and more affordable for everyone to secure contraception and take bold steps to protect women by ensuring that health—not politics—guides medical decisions.”

During her COVID-19 shutdowns that lasted from March 2020 through July 2021, Whitmer kept abortion clinics open, calling the procedure “life sustaining.” Meanwhile, Whitmer closed schools, restaurants, bars, and hair salons, as well as adding caps for the number of customers allowed in a business. In addition, she put limits on purchases like paint, lawn chairs, and garden seeds.

Planned Parenthood, which boasts only three percent of its services are abortion, states clinicians oversaw 2,565,910 birth control and information services in 2020, according to a national report.   STI treatments comprised 5,434,446 cases, while staff administered 542,659 breast exams and pap smears.

In her press release, Whitmer also listed what she’s done to “fight like hell” for Michigander’s reproductive freedom. She did not mention her June 21 comments where she mentions the lawsuit she filed on behalf of “menstruating people.”