Michigan Advance: Rogers has an anti-choice “voting record that can be compared to his statement”

LANSING — Michigan Advance reported today that Mike Rogers has an extensive anti-choice record. In Congress, Rogers co-sponsored four bills “that would have the same effect as the Alabama Supreme Court’s IVF ruling.” Each of these bills would “provide legal personhood from the moment of conception.”

While Rogers tries to hide from his extreme anti-choice views, “he has a voting record that can be compared to his statement.” Many people called Rogers out on his record co-sponsoring “4 bills that would have the same effect as the Alabama Supreme Court’s IVF ruling” which “prompt[ed] a Community Note on the post.”

Peter Meijer and Justin Amash also have dangerous anti-abortion stances. Meijer “similarly cosponsored a 2021 bill that would essentially outlaw IVF,” and Amash is “firmly anti-abortion.”

Read Michigan Advance’s reporting on the Michigan Republican Senate candidates’ dangerous anti-choice records:

Michigan Advance: ‘Republicans have put the rights of a fertilized egg over the rights of the woman’ 

• The U.S. Senate debate crystallized how statements by GOP legislators about IVF and what they are willing to do to keep it available are often in conflict.
• But because Rogers is one of only three who has already served in Congress, he has a voting record that can be compared to his statement.
• And that is exactly what many X users did, prompting a Community Note on the post.
• “In his 14 years in Congress Mike Rogers sponsored 4 bills that would have the same effect as the Alabama Supreme Court’s IVF ruling,” stated the note, which then linked to each of those four bills from 2005, 2007, 2009, and 2013, each of which would provide legal personhood from the moment of conception.
• Meijer has not made any statement on the Alabama decision, but similarly cosponsored a 2021 bill that would essentially outlaw IVF, a fact the Michigan Democratic Party made sure to note.
• “Mike Rogers and Peter Meijer support dangerous anti-IVF legislation that would rip away Michiganders’ freedom to make personal decisions. Rogers’ and Meijer’s extensive anti-choice records show that they are out-of-step with Michiganders,” said Sam Chan, Michigan Democratic Party spokesperson.
• …[Amash] is firmly anti-abortion.
• “I believe that life begins at conception, and it is unconscionable that government would sanction the taking of the helpless and innocent. I will always vote against government funding of abortion and will fight to protect life at all stages,” stated his former campaign website for Congress.
• By removing the federal protections for abortion that had been provided for half a century, the Dobbs decision allowed each state to set its own laws, which several did, like Michigan, enshrining the right to an abortion in their state constitutions.
• The result has been a new push to enact a national ban on abortion that would supersede any and all state laws on the topic. 
• If a national ban can be implemented on abortion, then abortion rights supporters argue that a similar ban can be placed on other issues connected to fertility, including IVF and contraception.

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