The son of a candy store factory who struggled to make a living, Basha immigrated 50 years ago to the U.S. It left a hole in my heart that will never heal." "Because my mother could not receive the abortion needed to save her life, we’ve all struggled to live out our lives without her. Wade "is too much and too dangerous," Basha said. What I want everyone to know, including my brothers and sisters in the Muslim community, is that we all must act to protect access to legal abortions in our state."īasha supports the ballot initiative in Michigan led by ACLU Michigan and Planned Parenthood Advocates of Michigan that would amend the state constitution to ensure reproductive rights in the state. "Women have to have a choice," Basha said. More: Abortion injunction is a political victory for Nessel, despite 'losing' the case More: GOP Legislature seeks to intervene in Planned Parenthood suit over 1931 abortion law Haley Stevens, D-Waterford, at his Royal Oak office and Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel visited him on a recent Friday.īasha worries if the Supreme Court overturns the landmark 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationally, women like his mother will suffer. He's also a prominent community leader in the Arab American and Muslim communities who often meets with elected officials in Michigan, visits the White House, and has often donated to candidates from both parties. Just within the past two weeks, he lunched with U.S. "Like a bottle exploded in my brain." 'I must speak out'īasha is a noted physician who founded Basha Diagnostics, a medical testing company headquartered on Woodward Avenue in Royal Oak that does about 100,000 tests a year with several offices in metro Detroit.
"All the painful memories came out bursting," Basha said. Supreme Court draft opinion was leaked, Basha said thoughts of his mother came flooding back. "Coming back from school, we were taken to the hospital," Basha said, weeping as he recalled seeing his mother dead on a hospital bed when he was 16 years old.ĭecades later, the memory of his mother's death still haunts Basha and has compelled him to speak out in favor of abortion rights.
Fatima soon died during childbirth in 1962, unable to survive the bleeding. They visited several doctors to get an abortion, but she was unable to find one to perform the procedure, Basha said.
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