Vote NO on the “Reproductive Health” Data Act (SB 1082 & HB 6077)

Author: Right to Life of Michigan Staff,
Original date: Thursday, November 21, 2024

Senate Bill 1082 and House Bill 6077 are identical bills that were recently introduced with plans to be rushed through before the end of the 2023-2024 term, which ends in December.

These dangerous bills will:

• Seek to limit choices presented to a woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy, so abortion seems the only option.
• Censors the information women are able to see by preventing ads for pregnancy centers from being sent to women within 1,850 feet of an abortion clinic. This is extraordinarily broad and will impact surrounding facilities, especially in urban areas.
• Engages our state government in the unethical undermining of Pregnancy Resource Centers, suggesting they engage in “the use of a deceptive design” because they offer life-affirming options to a woman considering an abortion.

Though this bill is written with language which covers any “reproductive health” data, it specifically carves out abortion clinics and targets organizations who attempt to offer options that extend beyond abortion.

Help spread the word! Call or email your legislator and let them know that:

• These bills censor the information women are able to see by preventing ads for pregnancy centers from being sent to women within 1,850 feet of an abortion clinic. This is extraordinarily broad and will impact surrounding facilities, especially in urban areas.
• Due to onerous “consent” requirements, the bills prevents timely gathering of pregnancy related information for referral to pregnancy help centers.
• These bills are a direct effort to limit the choices that are presented to women to only abortion and to withhold information on pregnancy supports and services, so women think abortion is their only option.

Please fill out this form and urge your legislator to vote NO on SB 1082 and HB 6077.