Governor Whitmer and Lt. Governor Gilchrist know that your ZIP Code shouldn't define your future. But for far too many Michiganders, this isn't true. That's why Governor Whitmer defined racism as a public health crisis and created a Black Leadership Advisory Council to help define solutions to longstanding disparities on issues healthcare, policing, access to good jobs and affordable housing.

 

In the face of unprecedented attacks on voting rights, Gov. Whitmer has been a staunch defender of Michigan voters by vetoing harmful and unnecessary bills that are designed to silence Michiganders trying to go to the polls.

And even before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Gov. Whitmer was fighting tooth and nail to protect reproductive rights, blocking dangerous attempts to restrict access to abortion and taking urgent legal action aimed at stopping the state’s 1931 ban on abortion, with no exceptions for rape or incest, from going into law.