Iowa Senate passes bill to harm womens lives by making abortion illegal, unsafe

[rurallib]

February 28, 2018 (Des Moines, IA) – Moments ago, the Iowa Senate voted along party lines 30-20 to pass the bill that would make abortion functionally illegal after six weeks – an extreme move that defies all medical and legal standards of women’s reproductive health and constitutional rights.

This bill is widely opposed by many in the medical and legal community including the Iowa Medical Society, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, COPIC, Family Planning Council of Iowa, the Iowa Clinic, Iowa Independent Physician Group, ACLU of Iowa, Iowa Board of Regents and Planned Parenthood, as well as religious groups including Interfaith Alliance of Iowa, Annual Conference of United Methodist Church, and the Iowa Catholic Conference.

The Iowa Medical Society has testified that if the abortion ban is enacted, the University of Iowa will lose its OB/GYN residency program – the only such program in the state. Iowa already has a shortage of OB/GYNs per capita, ranking 50 out of 51 states including the District of Columbia.

mother fuckers!

[madaboutharry]

1. These people are sick.

Every one of them needs to be voted out of office.

[progressoid]

2. Unfuckingbelievable.

What a bunch of pious idiots.

[Cairycat]

3. How much taxpayer money will be wasted

in the courts, challenging this POS bill's constitutionality?!? All so they could throw some red meat to their base.

All Iowans lose because of this.

[rurallib]

4. bingo - the republican go to campaign issue

forget the Trump, the poverty, fucking up health care, low wages, gutting unions, welfare for the wealthy, terrible environmental policies and so on.

boogey, boogey, boogey -- abortion, abortion, abortion

[justgamma]

5. It only hurts the poor.

Women with money will just travel to wherever.