‘It’s not a decision that we take lightly,’ woman who had abortion tells Whitmer

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer talks to women about reproductive rights

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Wednesday, May 25, met with constituents at Dodge Park Coney Island in Sterling Heights to discuss reproductive rights as she highlights her efforts to keep abortion legal in Michigan. A 1931 law would ban it in Michigan if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 decision that deemed the right to an abortion constitutional.

La Sonya Chambers made the first choice as a senior in high school. She was abducted and raped as she left a bus stop.

She took a morning after pill, a complex decision for the daughter of a religious woman “heavy on faith.”

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