• Home
  • News
    • UP 200
    • Local
    • Lansing Bureau
    • Washington D.C. Bureau
    • National
    • Insights
    • Watch 19 News Live
    • CBS News Live
    • Report News
  • Weather
    • Forecast + Conditions
    • Current Alerts
    • Interactive Radar
    • Cameras
    • Share Photos/Videos
    • Closings and Delays
  • Sports
  • Features
    • Life in the 906
    • The Yooper Goddess
WZMQ 19 News | CBS | MeTV Marquette
Haze

Marquette
Haze 66°

Clear

Escanaba
Clear 52°

Cloudy

Houghton
Cloudy 57°

Clear

Iron Mountain
Clear 58°

Watch
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
    • UP 200
    • Local
    • Lansing Bureau
    • Washington D.C. Bureau
    • National
    • Insights
    • Watch 19 News Live
    • CBS News Live
    • Report News
  • Weather
    • Forecast + Conditions
    • Current Alerts
    • Interactive Radar
    • Cameras
    • Share Photos/Videos
    • Closings and Delays
  • Sports
  • Features
    • Life in the 906
    • The Yooper Goddess
WZMQ 19 News | CBS | MeTV Marquette
No Result
View All Result
WZMQ 19 News | CBS | MeTV Marquette
No Result
View All Result

Gwen Walz visits Lansing for Harris Walz Reproductive Freedom Bus Tour stop

by Sophia Murphy
September 24, 2024 - Updated on September 25, 2024
A A

LANSING, Mich. (WZMQ) – The Harris Walz campaign Reproductive Freedom Bus Tour made a stop in Lansing today. The tour has traveled through battleground states to highlight campaign goals to support reproductive healthcare protections.

Gwen Walz and Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel took the podium today at Lansing Community College to talk about reproductive rights and what they believe is at stake in this election. 

“Everyone should have the freedom to build our family as we choose or, and this is just as important, we should have the freedom to decide not to have children at all too,” Walz said. “We are doing this by lifting up powerful stories and sharing why this fight is just so personal for so many of us.”

Hadley Duvall, a 22-year-old from Kentucky and a survivor of sexual assault has been traveling with the bus to share her story. At 12 years old Duvall found out she was pregnant from her father, and in 2014 she could still see a doctor in Kentucky to receive an abortion.  

“I didn’t know what that meant. I was 12. But I knew that that meant I would be ok.” Duvall said. “But now? Women and girls across this country don’t get to hear that they don’t get to know that they will be ok.”

While Former President Trump takes credit for the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, he has said he believes in exceptions for rape, incest, and protecting the life of the mother. He has also said he supports IVF treatments. 

Nessel said the fear major decisions like Roe v. Wade would be overturned during Trump’s presidency was one of the reasons she ran for office. During the event, she shared her experience starting a family using IVF. She said that after finding out she was pregnant with triplets, she was told she would have to abort one of them to keep herself and the other two children alive and healthy.

“I never expected that to happen to me. I never expected to have to make that choice, but I thank god that I had the ability to do it.” Nessel said. “Without federal protections, those rights could disappear. We don’t have a Supreme Court on our side, and we need to have Congress. We need to have a President like Kamala Harris making sure that we are codifying those rights in the federal law, and that is the only way that we will truly have protections here in the state of Michigan and all across this country.”

Different guests have appeared at stops across the country to share similar stories, and encourage voters to cast their ballot for Harris and state and local representatives who are in favor of reinstating Roe v. Wade protections.

The bus tour is expected to make over 50 stops before November 5 to continue to win over voters in battleground states.

Get WZMQ 19 anytime, anywhere

Download the app

AppleAndroid

Watch on TV

RokuFire TVZeam

Connect on social media

FacebookTwitterInstagram

More

Every year, the residents of Brookridge Heights take part in a point five K run/walk to benefit the Alzheimer's Association. It's a precursor to the walk to end Alzheimer's, which takes place in September.
News

A short walk with a big heart

June 5, 2025
News

Insights: Summer readings at the Peter White Public Library

June 5, 2025
SUPERIOR ON TAP IS A LECTURE SERIES HOSTED BY CITIZENS FOR A SAFE AND CLEAN LAKE SUPERIOR. TONIGHT'S PRESENTATION WAS ABOUT THE EFFECTS TOURISM HAS ON THE ENVIRONMENT.
News

Does the U.P. have too many tourists?

June 5, 2025
News

Three injured in two-vehicle crash in Manistique

June 5, 2025
News

Creature Feature: Crested Gecko

June 5, 2025
News

Rapid River Farmers Market season in full swing

June 5, 2025
Next Post

WZMQ 19 Sports 11 pm 9/24/24

Insights: upcoming book sale at the Peter White Public Library

  • Home
  • News
  • Weather
  • Sports
  • Features
  • Events
  • Programming
  • Station
WZMQ CBS | 19 News

© 2025 WZMQ, LLC | FCC Public File | EEO Report

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
    • UP 200
    • Local
    • Lansing Bureau
    • Washington D.C. Bureau
    • National
    • Insights
    • Watch 19 News Live
    • CBS News Live
    • Report News
  • Weather
    • Forecast + Conditions
    • Current Alerts
    • Interactive Radar
    • Cameras
    • Share Photos/Videos
    • Closings and Delays
  • Sports
  • Features
    • Life in the 906
    • The Yooper Goddess
  • Events
  • Programming
    • Programming Guide
    • CBS
    • MeTV
    • Start TV
    • Heroes & Icons
    • Court TV
    • ION
  • Station
    • About Us
    • Community Involvement
    • Mobile App
    • Meet the Team
    • Contact
    • Careers
    • Advertising
    • Request Copy of Story
    • FCC Public File
    • EEO Report
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
    • UP 200
    • Local
    • Lansing Bureau
    • Washington D.C. Bureau
    • National
    • Insights
    • Watch 19 News Live
    • CBS News Live
    • Report News
  • Weather
    • Forecast + Conditions
    • Current Alerts
    • Interactive Radar
    • Cameras
    • Share Photos/Videos
    • Closings and Delays
  • Sports
  • Features
    • Life in the 906
    • The Yooper Goddess
  • Events
  • Programming
    • Programming Guide
    • CBS
    • MeTV
    • Start TV
    • Heroes & Icons
    • Court TV
    • ION
  • Station
    • About Us
    • Community Involvement
    • Mobile App
    • Meet the Team
    • Contact
    • Careers
    • Advertising
    • Request Copy of Story
    • FCC Public File
    • EEO Report
This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this website you are giving consent to cookies being used. Visit our privacy policy.
Go to mobile version