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Press Release
Reproductive Freedom for All: Haley Stevens’ Endorsement Cannot Erase Mike Rogers’ Anti-Abortion Record
For Immediate Release: Sunday, November 1, 2026
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Reproductive Freedom for All: Haley Stevens’ Endorsement Cannot Erase Mike Rogers’ Anti-Abortion Record
Washington, DC — Today, Reproductive Freedom for All responded to Rep. Haley Stevens’ endorsement of Mike Rogers for U.S. Senate, underscoring his long record of supporting abortion bans and restrictions on reproductive health care. Stevens’ endorsement comes as Rogers attempts to soften that record in a campaign ad posted on his X account today—even while embracing it on a Detroit talk radio show days ago.
Reproductive Freedom for All President and CEO Mini Timmaraju released the following statement:
“Nothing can erase Mike Rogers’ votes or make him any less dangerous to our reproductive freedom. Haley Stevens is giving cover to a politician who spent his career trying to ban abortion and was still bragging about that record just days ago. The stakes are too high for politics to distract us from the very real threat posed by Mike Rogers – we must elect Abdul El-Sayed to the Senate.”
Just days ago, Rogers appeared on a Detroit talk radio show and reassured the audience that he had a 100% anti-abortion rating when he was in Congress, and he will maintain that record if reelected. Days before that, he accepted a campaign contribution from the National Pro-Life Alliance political action committee. His new ad asks Michigan voters to overlook years of votes, legislation, and statements supporting restrictions on abortion.
Rogers’ record includes:
- Voting for a national abortion ban. In June 2013, Rogers voted for H.R. 1797, which would have prohibited most abortions after 20 weeks.
- Backing legislation targeting abortion from fertilization. Rogers co-sponsored the 2009 Right to Life Act and the 2013 Life at Conception Act, which sought legal protections beginning at fertilization and could have banned abortion.
- Seeking to restrict abortion medication. In 2003 and 2005, Rogers co-sponsored legislation to withdraw federal approval of mifepristone, restricting an option available to patients and their doctors.
- Opposing abortion even in cases of rape and incest. In a 2010 candidate questionnaire, Rogers said: “I believe abortions should be legal only to prevent the death of the mother.”
This is not the first time Rogers has moderated his position on abortion to try to win an election. He faced this same vulnerability in 2024. Days before defeating him, now-Senator Elissa Slotkin explicitly linked her confidence in the race to reproductive rights and women crossing party lines on this issue.
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For over 55 years, Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America) has fought to protect and advance reproductive freedom at the federal and state levels—including access to abortion care, birth control, pregnancy and post-partum care, and paid family leave—for everybody. Reproductive Freedom for All is powered by its more than 4.5 million members from every state and congressional district in the country, representing the 8 in 10 Americans who support legal abortion.
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