Past and present Senate candidates from Michigan: on Abortion


Debbie Stabenow: Countless women rely on Planned Parenthood

Q: Abortion: Mostly ban or mostly legal?

John James (R): Ban, with an exception for the life of the mother--but not for rape or incest.

Debbie Stabenow (D): Legal. Says has to be a woman's choice.

Q: Let employers withhold contraceptive coverage from employees if disagree with it morally?

John James (R): No public statement found.

Debbie Stabenow (D): No. Co-sponsored bill to protect healthcare benefits, including contraceptive coverage.

Q: Let Planned Parenthood receive public funds for non-abortion healthcare?

John James (R): "Supports efforts to defund abortion providers like Planned Parenthood."

Debbie Stabenow (D): Defunding Planned Parenthood would keep countless women who rely on Medicaid from getting healthcare. They're often the only safety net alternative.

Source: CampusElect.org Issue Guide on 2018 Michigan Senate race Oct 9, 2018

John James: De-fund Planned Parenthood; bad abortion even for rape

Q: Abortion: Mostly ban or mostly legal?

John James (R): Ban, with an exception for the life of the mother--but not for rape or incest.

Debbie Stabenow (D): Legal. Says has to be a woman's choice.

Q: Let employers withhold contraceptive coverage from employees if disagree with it morally?

John James (R): No public statement found.

Debbie Stabenow (D): No. Co-sponsored bill to protect healthcare benefits, including contraceptive coverage.

Q: Let Planned Parenthood receive public funds for non-abortion healthcare?

John James (R): "Supports efforts to defund abortion providers like Planned Parenthood."

Debbie Stabenow (D): Defunding Planned Parenthood would keep countless women who rely on Medicaid from getting healthcare. They're often the only safety net alternative.

Source: CampusElect.org Issue Guide on 2018 Michigan Senate race Oct 9, 2018

John James: 100% pro-life; always have been; always will be

I am 100% Pro-Life. Always have been. Always will be.
Source: 2018 Michigan Senate campaign website JohnJamesForSenate.com Mar 2, 2018

Marcia Squier: Fund Planned Parenthood; abortion is an unrestricted right

Q: Do you support or oppose the statement, "Abortion is a woman's unrestricted right"?

A: Support.

Q: What about federal funding for Planned Parenthood? And for abortion services in general?

A: I support funding for Planned Parenthood and funding for abortion services for poorer women in general. I would also advocate for more sex education and contraceptive availability.

Source: OnTheIssues interview on 2018 Michigan Senate race Jul 20, 2017

Mike Bishop: Pro-life with exception only for life of the mother

Q: Human life begins at conception and deserves legal protection at every stage until natural death?

Bishop: Strongly Agree

Q: Should abortion be allowed under extenuating circumstances? If so, what circumstances?

Bishop: I am pro-life with the only exception being that of the life of the mother.

Source: Faith2Action iVoterGuide on 2014 Michigan Senate race Sep 30, 2014

Terri Lynn Land: Supports GOP platform which bans abortion

Terri Lynn Land announced she will continue to serve as National Committeewoman for the National Republican Party while running for Senate. In this role, Land voted for, and will continue to promote, the GOP platform, which called for turning Medicare into a voucher program and a ban on abortion that did not include exceptions for rape, incest or saving a woman's life. Land's extreme GOP platform also supported privatizing Social Security, banning same sex marriage, opposing any gun legislation that would limit "the capacity of clips or magazine," banning women from combat, and a study to determine whether to return the US dollar to the gold standard.

In August 2012, Bloomberg reported that the 2012 Republican platform "also proposes a constitutional amendment to ban abortion without stipulating any exceptions for ending pregnancies caused by rape or to save a woman's life."

Source: DSCC press release on 2014 Michigan Senate debate Jun 11, 2013

Randy Hekman: Life begins at conception

In the lightning round, candidates agreed unanimously that the Internal Revenue Service should be abolished, life should begin at conception, they would never vote to increase the debt of the federal government and that the idea of a flat tax would prove to be beneficial.
Source: CMU Central Michigan Life on 2012 Michigan Senate debate Jan 14, 2012

Bret McAtee: Abortion is ethnocide

Elected officials’ being drunk with power is seen in how they completely ignore the 9th and 10th amendments to the Constitution, and in their refusal to stop the ethnocide that is abortion.
Source: Declaration of Candidacy For Michigan US Senate Jan 1, 2006

  • The above quotations are from Winners and Losers
    Senate candidates from Michigan.
  • Click here for definitions & background information on Abortion.
  • Click here for other issues (main summary page).
Candidates and political leaders on Abortion:

Retired Senate as of Jan. 2015:
GA:Chambliss(R)
IA:Harkin(D)
MI:Levin(D)
MT:Baucus(D)
NE:Johanns(R)
OK:Coburn(R)
SD:Johnson(D)
WV:Rockefeller(D)

Resigned from 113th House:
AL-1:Jo Bonner(R)
FL-19:Trey Radel(R)
LA-5:Rod Alexander(R)
MA-5:Ed Markey(D)
MO-9:Jo Ann Emerson(R)
NC-12:Melvin Watt(D)
SC-1:Tim Scott(R) 		Retired House to run for Senate or Governor:
AR-4:Tom Cotton(R)
GA-1:Jack Kingston(R)
GA-10:Paul Broun(R)
GA-11:Phil Gingrey(R)
HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa(D)
IA-1:Bruce Braley(D)
LA-6:Bill Cassidy(R)
ME-2:Mike Michaud(D)
MI-14:Gary Peters(D)
MT-0:Steve Daines(R)
OK-5:James Lankford(R)
PA-13:Allyson Schwartz(D)
TX-36:Steve Stockman(R)
WV-2:Shelley Capito(R) 		Retired House as of Jan. 2015:
AL-6:Spencer Bachus(R)
AR-2:Tim Griffin(R)
CA-11:George Miller(D)
CA-25:Howard McKeon(R)
CA-33:Henry Waxman(D)
CA-45:John Campbell(R)
IA-3:Tom Latham(R)
MN-6:Michele Bachmann(R)
NC-6:Howard Coble(R)
NC-7:Mike McIntyre(D)
NJ-3:Jon Runyan(R)
NY-4:Carolyn McCarthy(D)
NY-21:Bill Owens(D)
PA-6:Jim Gerlach(R)
UT-4:Jim Matheson(D)
VA-8:Jim Moran(D)
VA-10:Frank Wolf(R)
Please consider a donation to OnTheIssues.org!
Click for details -- or send donations to:
1770 Mass Ave. #630, Cambridge MA 02140
E-mail: submit@OnTheIssues.org
(We rely on your support!)

Page last updated: Feb 23, 2019