LANSING — Mike Rogers’ extensive, dangerous anti-choice record can’t be erased. In Congress, Rogers co-sponsored four bills that defined personhood as the moment of fertilization — jeopardizing access to IVF and contraception, including IUDs and Plan B.
Fetal personhood laws, like the ones Rogers co-sponsored, “could restrict or effectively ban IVF” and would rip away Michiganders’ freedom to make personal decisions.
Here’s what Michiganders are reading about Rogers’ long record supporting dangerous anti-IVF legislation:
NBC: “Former Rep. Mike Rogers, who is running for Senate in Michigan and co-sponsored a series of measures attempting to define human life as beginning at the moment of fertilization.”
WLNS: “Rogers co-sponsored bills in 2005, 2008, 2009, and 2013 that contained the reference to human beings as people from the moment of fertilization.”
Washington Post: “Rogers… had previously co-sponsored four bills in Congress ‘that would have the same effect as the Alabama Supreme Court’s IVF ruling.’”
MLive: “Rogers, as a congressman, had repeatedly cosponsored largely symbolic legislation affirming that ‘include each and every member of the species homo sapiens at all stages of life, including the moment of fertilization.’ … Democrats have asserted these bills, if they had had a chance of passing, would’ve similarly restricted IVF.”
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