LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and asked them to legally protect Michiganders who may travel to Canada for “reproductive healthcare” or medication abortions.

A copy of Whitmer’s letter can be found here.

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In the letter, Whitmer wrote, “I am calling on CBP and FDA to issue guidance that no legal obstacle prevents Michiganders from seeking reproductive health care in Canada or from bringing medications prescribed by a Canadian healthcare professional back into the country. More generally, I encourage the federal government to pull
out all the stops to ensure that Michiganders can access reproductive care in Canada if they choose to do so.”

David Kallman, attorney with the Great Lakes Justice Center, said the governor can ask for anything, but the federal government does not have to respond to Whitmer’s request.

“It shows [Whitmer’s] total commitment to abortion at anytime up to birth,” Kallman said. “She’s hard core and extreme pro-abortion.”

In addition, Kallman said this move shows Whitmer is worried that abortion rights arguments won’t prevail in Michigan courts. However, her doggedness about traveling to Canada is confusing.

“People can go to other states to get abortions,” Kallman said. “There’s no law that says a woman can’t travel to another state for an abortion.”

Michigan’s legislature has asked the Michigan Court of Appeals to overturn an injunction against the state’s 1931 law banning most abortions.

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The court-ordered injunction issued in May month by Judge Elizabeth Gleicher currently is the only measure keeping abortion legal in the state after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade which returned abortion regulations to the states.