IOWA CITY – Democratic Senator Joe Bolkcom of Iowa City, a member of the Senate Human Resources Committee, said that Iowa Republicans have launched a “war on women”.
“I’m disappointed Iowa Republicans have launched a new front in the national so-called ‘war on women’ by opposing affordable, safe access to health care for rural Iowans.
“Mixing politics and medical care is a mistake. There is no reason for Republican politicians to be in the room when women and their doctors make important, personal medical decisions.
“Telemedicine is an increasingly effective and affordable way to deliver health care to rural Iowans.
“In November 2012, Governor Branstad called attention to this fact when he opened Iowa’s first telepharmacy in Victor. At the ribbon cutting ceremony, Governor Branstad called telemedicine an ‘innovative idea that hopefully will catch on.’ The Governor did not add the words: ‘except when it comes to women’s health care.’
“Governor Branstad and legislative Republicans are wrong to exclude the needs of Iowa women from the benefits of telemedicine.
“Partisan politics have no place in the decisions of the Iowa Board of Medicine. The Iowa Medical Society also opposes the non-scientific, inadequate, flawed process used by the Board of Medicine when it rejected the use of telemedicine in women’s health care.
“That decision is being challenged in court. I believe it will be reversed because it was not based on medical science and is not in the best interest of Iowa women.
“Governor Branstad said he wanted Iowa to be ‘innovative’ in telemedicine. It is ironic that while other states are now following Iowa’s lead, Iowa Republicans are trying to force Iowa to go backwards when it comes to telemedicine.
“The national ‘war on women’ refers to the outrageous effort by conservatives to politicize women’s health care decisions in order to win elections. Governor Branstad and state legislators should leave medical decisions to women and their doctors, the same way they respect medical science when it comes to the care of men.”
5 thoughts on “Senator says Iowa Republicans join political ‘war on women’ instead of supporting health care for rural Iowans”
I know a woman that is a hardcore democrat, she said she doesn’t have the money to live so she has to have another kids to get more money from the government. She already has 5 kids and isn’t married.
Sure tell it is an election year when the Democrats start lying about everything. If anyone is trying to hold women back and keep them from improving it is the Democrats with their welfare programs.
Pentagon welfare, Big Business Welfare, Oil welfare, Halliburton, Blackwater Welfare-these all seem to go unnoticed by the great and mighty LVS. He goes after people on food cards who are locked into slumlord bad designed communities with no provisions to care for themselves, save for working “up and through” the narrow channels corporate men provide for them. If there were a plot of land available for gardening and time to do it, then maybe I’d listen to your anti welfare rhetoric.
@Philly-of course you support welfare, you live on it and always have and always will. It is pretty sad when you can’t even keep a paper route job.
If he is claiming that the republicans have done this then history has shown us that it must have been them that actually did it.