{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Friday Short: Whitmer Abandons Planned Parenthood, and Legacy","description":"Click here to donate $5 on Left of Lansing on Patreon! (https://www.patreon.com/15494297/join)\nhttps://www.patreon.com/15494297/join\n\nHere's the Left of Lansing \"Friday Short\" for July 31, 2026!\n\nPlanned Parenthood of Michigan announced three more clinic closures in the state on Thursday, making it a total of 14 closures in the last couple of years.\n\nWhile The Trump Regime and the MAGA Republican Congress are to blame for their massive cuts to Planned Parenthood (since punishing women is one of the hallmarks of the White Christian Nationalist agenda), Michigan's Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer shares some of the blame as well.\n\nWhitmer refused to \"Fight like Hell\" to keep those clinics opened as she refused Planned Parenthood of Michigan's request to unleash emergency funding.\n\nIt's just another in the long line of betrayal from the former \"Big Gretch,\" who's now just called, Gretchen.\n\nPlease, subscribe to the podcast, download each episode, and give it a good review if you can!\n\nleftoflansing@gmail.com\n\nLeft of Lansing is now on YouTube as well (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQQWjoUxWJCQwSDv-7jKpqQ) !\n\nVote on this week's LOL Poll!!!\n (https://www.patreon.com/LeftofLansing/posts/lol-weekly-poll-165258233?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)\nMusic provided by Wanderbeats. To hear the latest project, visit Space Leopard on various streaming sites, or visit: https://www.youtube.com/@SpaceLeopard\nClick here to donate $5 on Left of Lansing on Patreon! (https://www.patreon.com/15494297/join)\nhttps://www.patreon.com/15494297/join\n#podcast #politics #progressives #Michigan #Democrats #Trump #MAGA #Republicans #Election #Primary #DemocraticSocialism #Senate #AbdulElSayed #WorkingClass #unions #HaleyStevens # AbortionRights #PlannedParenthood #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #Populism #GretchenWhitmer #CorporateClass #DemocraticSocialism #Fascism #EpsteinClass #Authoritarianism #Democracy #LeftofLansing","author_name":"Left of Lansing","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/4988141-left-of-lansing","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43769026/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"95\" src=\"https://embeds.audioboom.com/posts/8934763/embed?v=202301\" style=\"background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; width: 100%\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"allowtransparency\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"Audioboom player\" allow=\"autoplay\" sandbox=\"allow-downloads allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\"></iframe>"}