Gov. Gretchen Whitmer remains defiantly opposed to abortion restrictions, tweeting on Friday, “Politicians have no business making personal health care decisions about our bodies,” although she seemingly forgets the numerous health mandates she issued during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Specifically, Whitmer’s tweet was referring to a Florida ballot measure that would ban abortions after six weeks.

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Whitmer’s tweet includes a statement from Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ campaign in response to Republican opponent former President Donald Trump’s endorsement of the Florida measure.

“Trump proudly brags about the role that he played in overturning Roe v. Wade and said there should be punishment for women who have an abortion,” Harris’ statement reads. “So, of course he thinks it’s a ‘beautiful thing’ that women in Florida and across the country are being turned away from emergency rooms, face life-threatening situations, and are forced to travel hundreds of mile for the care they need.”

Harris’ message also mischaracterizes the Trump campaign’s allegiance to Project 25 and incorrectly states that he would ban abortion nationwide.

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“And understand: he is not done. As a part of Donald Trump’s Project 2025 agenda, he and his allies would limit access to birth control, threaten access to fertility treatments and ban abortions nationwide, with or without Congress.”

Harris’ statement, shared by Whitmer, ignores Trump’s speech this past Thursday in which he proposed government subsidies and insurance mandates for in-vitro fertilization treatments.

Whitmer herself is no stranger to imposing mandates that come between Michigan citizens and their doctors. As governor during the pandemic, she issued several Executive Orders that had the effect of “mandating personal health care.”

For example, Whitmer issued Executive Order 2020-153 that strengthened “her previous order requiring all Michiganders to wear a mask in indoor public spaces and crowded outdoor spaces,” according to her news release. “This new order clarifies that businesses may not assume that an unmasked customer cannot medically tolerate a face covering, though they can accept a customer’s verbal representation to that effect.”

The EO also required public safety officers to wear masks.

“Wearing a mask is the right thing to do to protect our families, our businesses, and our economy,” Whitmer said. “If everyone in Michigan masks up, we can save thousands of lives and put ourselves in a better position to send our kids back to school in the fall. For the safety of our loved ones and our dedicated first responders on the front lines: mask up, Michigan.”

In December 2021, the governor also registered her support of President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

“Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says she supports President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for employers. Her comments came Wednesday in a roundtable with reporters,” according to WTOL 11.

“That followed Attorney General Dana Nessel saying earlier in the week that she would support a defense of the mandate.”

Her administration also released a statement in December 2021, that noted: “Since the safe and effective vaccines became widely available, Governor Whitmer has been working to support the goal of increasing our state’s vaccination numbers, so that we can protect more Michiganders and finally end this pandemic. While our approach in Michigan has not included any sort of mandate or restriction, the courts have allowed the federal government’s vaccine rule to move forward, which means employers across the country, including the state government in Michigan, will need to draft a plan to keep employees safe at work. As an employer of nearly 50,000 State of Michigan employees, the governor has been a sympathetic partner to businesses while we try to understand how the federal vaccine rule will work for our employees. To help alleviate some of that stress, the governor signed into law, and will be disbursing, $500 million in funding to help businesses throughout the state weather the pandemic as we all work to figure out the logistics and implementation process to be in compliance with the federal government’s new rule.”

The following month, Michigan’s Auditor General reported that the Whitmer administration undercounted nursing home deaths as a result of COVID by 42%, or 2,286 for a total of 8,061 patients. Those deaths, adjusted upward another 8,000 deaths by Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist Charlie LeDuff, resulted from edicts issued by Whitmer that forced COVID infected patients in retirement homes.

Michigan media outlets “continue to report 5,600 deaths in long term care facilities. The true number is more like 14,000,” LeDuff said. “That means Whitmer buried 7,000 corpses in a statistical mass grave,” he added.

“This makes Michigan’s response and Whitmer’s response (to the pandemic) ripe for a special prosecutor,” LeDuff said. “Instead of tamping down the pandemic, her response was to feed the flames. That led to more deaths, and then to lie about it.”