Iowa Republicans, following Gov. Kim Reynolds’ (R) lead, passed a six-week abortion ban late Tuesday night after completing the entire legislative process in a one-day special session.
another red state where the legislature has passed abortion restrictions that go much further than the majority of its constituents want
That’s not the way America works.
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Iowa Democrats need to hammer on this all day every day.
It is very much the way America works for legislators to pass the kind of laws the voters elected them to enact.
Stupid voters.
What the f*ck is wrong with these people to put a developing glob of cells before I.e., above and ahead of, the lives over fully developed and sentient people???
IOWA Repubs: Idiots Out Walking Around
Misogyny and patriarchy.
I guess 2024 is the year we see if Republican and Independent women are more interested in their own bodily autonomy than they are in tax breaks and Let’s Go Brandon!
This is Christo-fascist legislation from an hysterical minority in control of a civic backwater.
And what will be the Iowa’s GOP’s response when OG/GYN’s start closing their practices and leaving Iowa? And more rural hospitals close?
Legalize midwifes and shamans?
Now that Iowa has broadened the possibilities for child labor, I guess they’ve gotta come up with workers that’ll fill all the positions that will necessarily be created now that government interference in the market has been reduced.
Witchcraft, which will then have to be illegalized as the state is clearly charged with preventing trafficking with the Devil.
Agreed. It’s frightening.
I won’t speak to shamans, but midwives are highly educated and trained with degrees from top universities. These two things should not be in the same sentence.
I had my daughter at a free standing and independent midwifery center. I never needed to see an Ob-Gyn at anytime during my pregnancy or my daughter’s birth.
ETA – I want to add (in case my comment is misunderstood). I have the highest regard for Ob-Gyn’s, the work that they do, and what they are up against in several states. My niece is an Ob-Gyn. Luckily she resides and works in Pennsylvania, where Ob-Gyn’s can practice without political interference.
In my case and for my pregnancy, I chose a different (a more natural and holistic) path. The midwives did prepare for any unforeseen outcome. In case complications would have arisen, I was already pre-admitted into the local hospital, and an ambulance would have had me there within minutes.
Especially since the inevitable result of women being unable to decide when and if to have children, coupled with a lack of reasonably priced childcare, is women dropping out of the labor force. They never seem to think these things through.
God almighty can someone buy the democrats a clue? Can someone put up a bill making masturbation, or swinging among married couples illegal just to make the fucking point that if you want government shoved up in people’s personal lives, we can do it too? Fucking useless limp dicks every one of them…
For the time being. My daughter-in-law is an advanced practice nurse (APN) in women’s health, licensed in Pennsylvania and Delaware. Her professional mailing address is now a P.O. box two towns over from where she and my son live. This was at the advice of her lawyer, as a precaution. There are crazies working in Pennsylvania to turn it into Iowa or Ohio. (Her paying gig is as a health policy analyst: she does volunteer work a couple of times a month to keep her hand in, hence the need for professional mailing address.)
I’ve seen Ob-Gyn pre-natal and birth care and I’ve seen APN care. As @kelaine notes, the difference is in the delivery of care. With the physician, check-ins were perfunctory and somewhat rushed. Most of the care was delivered by RNs or PAs anyway. With the APN, the midwife delivered most of the care herself and things felt a lot less rushed. The midwife was very careful in monitoring the pregnancy to make sure things were not moving in a direction where a physician’s intervention was necessary. (They didn’t in our case, but they did for friends of ours who used the same midwife.) As long as they are working within the scope of their practice, I think midwives are a great alternative to obstetricians for routine pregnancies.
They won’t care much since they generally have different plumbing.
And BTW, did anyone see the story about the hand surgeon shot by a patient in Tennessee? Pretty soon the only place where someone doesn’t get shot is … the Supreme Court where guns aren’t allowed. Why not, I wonder?
This is great news for Iowa, as well as national, Democrats.
What citizens need to understand is that this disconnect between their needs and what these Republicans are doing reaches far beyond abortion. The Dems need to ratchet down their extremes and the citizens will run to them.
A Des Moines Register-Mediacom Iowa poll from this year found that 61 percent of adults in the state believed abortion should be legal in most or all cases, while 35 percent believed it should be illegal in most or all cases.
Exactly. If the voters don’t like it, they’ll start voting otherwise and if that doesn’t happen, then government is working exactly as designed.