Could abortion rights and “fixing the damn roads” take Michigan’s governor to the White House?
Gretchen Whitmer was the minority leader in the Michigan state senate when she made the move that catapulted her to national attention. An anti-abortion group had collected some 300,000 signatures backing a law intended to make women buy a separate “rider”, or policy, if they wanted their health insurance to cover abortion.
During the debate on the state senate floor, Ms Whitmer, then 42 and 12 years into her political career, argued the measure would be tantamount to forcing women to buy “rape insurance”. She pointed out that in a referendum it would surely be rejected, and so its passage was undemocratic. Then she paused. “I am about to tell you something that I have not shared with many people in my life. But over 20 years ago I was a victim of rape,” she said, her voice cracking.
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