Gov. Gretchen Whitmer held a roundtable discussion on reproductive rights at Totem Books in Flint Wednesday. The governor was there with six other women to highlight the dangers Donald Trump poses to a woman’s freedom to make her own decisions about the reproductive healthcare that she needs.

Numerous “Michigan for Biden-Harris” and “Stop Trump’s Abortion Ban” signs were prominently displayed throughout Totem during the event.

Trump, who later in the day would be making his third campaign visit to Michigan this year, recently had said in an interview published in Time magazine that states should decide whether to prosecute women for abortions in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision that overturned the constitutional right to the procedure.

Gov. Whitmer said Trump is to blame for all the individual states that are passing laws that are ripping reproductive choices away from families and doctors, forcing women to carry pregnancies against their will, and increasing their risk of long-term injury and death.

“You cannot trust what Donald Trump says when it comes to abortion rights,” Whitmer said. “He and all three of his appointees to the United States Supreme Court lied to congress and lied to the American people. Then they went and reversed Roe v. Wade and that is exactly why we’ve got chaos across the country with different rights for different people in different states under different situations, and that’s why women are dying.”

In the Time interview, Trump also said states should decide whether to monitor women’s pregnancies.

“You cannot trust anything Donald Trump says when it comes to a woman’s ability to make her own decisions about her body,” the governor said. “He won’t give you a straight answer. In every interview, he says something a little bit different. His position has evolved 15 times in 15 months. We cannot make any assumptions. He will do whatever is in his own best interest, which is what he’s shown us over and over again.

“Whether it’s sending a mob to the United States Capitol or it’s appointing people to the Supreme Court who are going to rip those rights away, Trump did this. That’s why we are in this mess to begin with. No one would have imagined we would be here in this moment,” she said.

Abortion has proven to be a motivating issue for voters to cast ballots for Democrats in recent Michigan elections. Exit polling in 2022 showed it as the top issue in that election where voters reelected Gov. Whitmer to a second term and approved Proposal 3, the ballot measure for a constitutional “right to reproductive freedom.”

And last year, Gov. Whitmer signed bipartisan legislation repealing the state’s 1931 law banning abortion without exceptions for rape or incest and criminalizing nurses and doctors who perform the procedure.

But she warned that access to abortion in the future is 'very much in jeopardy' even in states like Michigan. Whitmer called on Republican and Independent voters who supported her reelection and abortion access in 2022 to join her again this year.

“Extreme Republicans are working around the clock, determined to unravel the progress we’ve made in Michigan,” Whitmer said. “Our work is not done. We simply cannot, and will not, let them win.”