Iowa Republican Who Had Three Abortions Calls For Total Abortion Ban – Iowa Starting Line

Rep. Luana Stoltenberg (R-Davenport) introduced Monday at a “Prayer for Life” rally on the Iowa State Capitol Constructing that she would introduce a invoice to ban abortion fully in Iowa by defining life as beginning at conception.

Because the Cedar Rapids Gazette reported, Stoltenberg stated she had three abortions as a teen, and the procedures left her unable to have kids.

“My prayer is that Iowa will cross a life at conception invoice to guard their most weak and defenseless residents,” she stated. Although she hasn’t launched a invoice but, she stated she was going to.

The Gazette reported that Sen. Kevin Alons (R-Salix) known as for a similar factor.

Abortion is at present authorized in Iowa till 20 weeks, although the Iowa Supreme Court docket is contemplating whether or not to reinstate a 2018 regulation that might ban abortion round six weeks.

Gov. Kim Reynolds has stated she desires to attend till the end result of that case earlier than proposing further restrictions on reproductive well being care. Although she spoke on the gathering, she didn’t suggest another restrictions.

The six-week ban was beforehand blocked by the Polk County District Court docket and a 2018 Iowa Supreme Court docket ruling that the Iowa Structure protects the precise to abortion.

In June 2022—per week earlier than the US Supreme Court docket overturned Roe v Wade—the Iowa justices reversed that ruling, main Reynolds to ask for the block to be lifted. The push failed in December final 12 months, and Reynolds appealed to the Supreme Court docket.

Reynolds has championed payments that present tens of millions in taxypayer cash to anti-abortion clinics—disaster being pregnant facilities—which aren’t licensed to supply medical care and have a report of mendacity to the folks looking for their providers and delaying care.

Republicans within the Home have additionally launched a invoice to make it a felony to “manufacture, distribute, prescribe, dispense, promote or switch” abortion tablets. The invoice has not been assigned to a subcommittee but.

Prohibiting abortion tablets would additionally prohibit medical doctors from treating miscarriages, which regularly contain that very same treatment to clear the uterus or typically surgical procedure.

In accordance with the Gazette, Reynolds stated “there may be ‘nonetheless extra to do’ for the anti-abortion rights trigger.” And the US Supreme Court docket “rewrote the playbook for the motion, she stated.”

“The tip of Roe begins a totally new section within the battle for all times. Throughout the nation what issues now could be the desire of the folks. Not government-appointed judges,” Reynolds stated.

Democratic Home Chief Jennifer Konfrst (D-Windsor Heights) stated, “Politicians don’t have any place interfering in another person’s selections about when to start out a household. The most recent plan by MAGA Republicans to ban all abortion with out exception will put the lives of too many Iowans in danger. Democrats consider everybody deserves the precise to make their very own well being care selections, particularly with regards to reproductive care and abortion.”

Nikoel Hytrek
2/7/23

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