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Related: About this forumSen. Joni Ernst just pledged her full support for dangerous "personhood" legislation
BREAKING:
Sen. Joni Ernst just pledged her full support for dangerous personhood legislation that would define embryos as people. This is a massive threat to Iowa women.
Make a donation today to stop personhood legislation and help us lay the groundwork to defeat corrupt Joni Ernst today.
Were angry. Republicans in the Iowa legislature have advanced dangerous personhood legislation that puts women's lives at risk for the sake of perpetuating a political agenda. Whats even worse: Senator Joni Ernst is praising this bill -- even saying shes grateful for this legislation.
Joni Ernst is so focused on her radical right-wing, anti-choice agenda, that shes forgotten some troubling facts about the maternal health crisis brewing in Iowa:
FACT: In the past three years, the maternal mortality rate has doubled in Iowa -- more than 40 women have lost their lives from maternal mortality in the last three years.
FACT: Dozens of labor and delivery departments have closed in Iowa, forcing some women to travel 2.5+ hours to have a healthy delivery.
FACT: Iowa ranks 50th in the nation in practicing OBGYNs -- due in large part thanks to Kim Reynolds Medicaid privatization disaster, devastating Iowans access rural health services.
FACT: The Iowa GOP banned thousands of women from receiving care from UnityPoint and University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics for family planning services.
The facts are clear.
Its absolutely absurd that Joni Ernst touts a women-first campaign message, and then turns her back on Iowa women by supporting this dangerous act of political theater. And its exactly why we need to defeat her in 2020.
Can you rush in an emergency donation to our Defeat Joni Ernst Fund so we can fight back?
kimbutgar
(23,165 posts)That baby?
She is a traitor to her fellow women. A clip of cells is not yet a living human being.
rurallib
(63,155 posts)She is bought lock stock and barrel by the Kochs
madaboutharry
(41,288 posts)For a while I thought she was just old fashioned stupid and a hack. But now I have figured out that she has a mean streak and is a selfish and cruel person.
exboyfil
(17,974 posts)A battery that leads to the death of a fetus is a property crime.
If your wife is carrying a baby that you suspect is not yours, you can subject her to a procedure that will lead to an abortion if the baby isn't yours.
Both of these are the law in the Old Testament.
rurallib
(63,155 posts)or a modern repug?
As a repug your duty is to who bought and paid for you.
jmowreader
(51,374 posts)...other than most Republicans' Bibles have huge dents in them from hitting liberals over the head with them...nothing.