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🚨 Iowa passes near-total ban 🚨

John - Anna Scudder here with an update on a new law targeting
reproductive freedom, but first: will you join this fight to restore our
basic reproductive rights?

 

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At the urging of Governor Kim Reynolds, Iowa held a special legislative
session to pass a near-total abortion ban. The bill, which has a six-week
ban in place, will be effective immediately following the Governor's
signature.

While the bill touts exceptions for rape, incest, and maternal harm,  the
misnomer of those "exceptions" has strict rules to be able to obtain an
abortion in the state: "For those exceptions to apply, the rape must have
been reported to law enforcement or a “public or private health agency” —
which includes a family doctor — within 45 days, and the incest must have
been reported to any of those officials or entities within 140 days." 

When children are the victims of sexual violence in their homes...do you
really believe they are given the opportunity to report it? Do you think
that Iowa Republicans consider those nuances?

Not only is this not compatible with the proclaimed "pro-life" stance,
most voters don't agree with it either, per the NYT: "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."

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[ [link removed] ]John, six-week bans are the basis for thousands of forced
births in the country. This is not freedom; it is control over women's
bodies, choices, and lives. Help us elect pro-choice candidates across the
nation and stop the radical right from stripping away our bodily
autonomy. 

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In solidarity,

[10]Anna Scudder

- Anna Scudder

Reproductive Health Correspondent, 
No Dem Left Behind PAC