Featured speakers include Senator Janet Petersen, Representative Marti Anderson, Senator Jack Hatch, and Representative Tyler Olson –
Des Moines, Iowa — Progress Iowa will hold a rally today, Wednesday, August 28 at the state capitol in opposition to Governor Branstad’s politicization of women’s health care and his partnership with anti-abortion activists and the Iowa Board of Medicine to eliminate access to women’s reproductive health care.
The Iowa Board of Medicine is considering a proposed rule change that would ban the state’s telemedicine delivery system for medication abortion. Telemedicine is a safe and common practice, which has been in place since 2008 in Iowa. In 2010, the Iowa Board of Medicine reviewed the rules governing the telemedicine delivery system for medication abortion, and upheld the current system. Since then, Governor Branstad has filled the entire board with his hand-picked replacements. And recently, the Des Moines Register uncovered an email between Governor Branstad’s staff and an activist coordinating a petition to the Board requesting that the rules be reviewed and changed.
“Governor Branstad is proving that politicians make lousy doctors,” said Matt Sinovic, executive director of Progress Iowa. “Politics should never dictate health care, but the governor keeps injecting himself into personal decisions that should remain between a woman and her doctor. And his administration’s partnership with anti-abortion activists in an orchestrated political attack with the Board of Medicine is shameful.”
Governor Branstad is so out of the loop when it comes to progressive governing.
He has absolutely NO right telling women what to do with their bodies. (Really, doesn’t it take TWO for a pregnancy to occur?)
We need medical marijuana in Iowa. It will NOT happen as long as Branstad is our governor. Please vote for Jack Hatch.
The woman made the choice and ended up with a child. Killing that child is not in her reproductive rights.
So killing babies is ok as long as its wrapped up in women’s “productive rights”.
@4ever49-what gives you or anyone else he right to tell any woman what she should do with her body? Especially the government.
What if one considers that the woman’s body is the host for the life of another? And, a host, I might add, that except for rape, incest, etc. she consented to.
@4ever49-I understand what you are saying. But that is a different issue. There are birth control medicines available to keep them from getting pregnant. It is society at fault for the high rate of single mother births. As long as we subsidize them with welfare based on the number of kids they have this will continue. Cut off the funding and it will stop. People run around saying what a cute baby it is, having showers and then we pay them for each child. I still say the government has no business telling us what to do with our body’s. This is a moral issue, not a government issue. What ever happened to pride?
LVS – I agree with you on the welfare assistance levels tied to the number of kids. Cutting funding would definitely send a message.
Back to the primary issue, I think it is pretty well known that birth control measures do not always work. When they don’t & a pregnancy results a human being has been created.
As a moral issue for our society it is very corrosive to simply kill babies them because their existence is inconvenient.
@4ever49- now that I could agree with. However, I still think denying everyone access to this is the wrong way to do it. The less the government has to do with our private lives the better I like it.
LVS – perhaps the solution would be for a state supported pre-natal care & adoption agency so babies born and not wanted by their mothers (& fathers) could be made available to qualified adoptive parents. There seems to be no end to those who have to go to Russia & elsewhere in search for infants.
I know there will likely never be the perfect solution, but at least we would not be in the business of killing babies.
@4ever49-now that is a good idea. It will probably never happen because the government isn’t much into good ideas.
On this subject I am going to agree with Steal Panther. The government has no business telling women or anyone else what they can do or not do with their bodies. The Republicans need to get off that kick and spend their time running the government. Not playing doctor.
I’m so sick of idiots like this, Kevin Pals and Dave Hepperly, practicing medicine with politics. If it’s not reproductive rights, it’s cannabis.
The sooner people like this leave us, the better.
I’m so, so sick of it. It’s not governments place to play doctor over politics.
Thank you Gubernatorial candidate and Senator Jack Hatch for standing up to this regime and standing up for women’s reproductive rights and women’s health in general. I for one appreciate your efforts.