LANSING, MI (AP)— Michigan will not comply with requests from other states to extradite abortion patients who cross state lines, Governor Gretchen Whitmer said Wednesday.
Whitmer’s executive order mirrors orders from other Democratic governors hoping to protect patients and medical providers from prosecution in their home states, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe vs. Wade.
Whitmer’s office did not say whether the executive order was preemptive or in response to another state’s request.
Democratic governors in Colorado, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere have issued similar statements looking to protect patients and medical professionals from legal consequences in states that have banned abortion.
