Iowa Senate Republicans advance plan to ban abortion

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Thursday, Jan 23 2020
Laura Belin

Republicans on the Iowa Senate State Government Committee have approved a proposed constitutional amendment that could eventually clear the way for a total ban on abortion.

Senate Joint Resolution 21 would add language to the Iowa Constitution clarifying that the document “shall not be construed to recognize, grant, or secure a right to abortion or to require the public funding of abortion.”

An earlier version cleared the Senate State Government Committee in March 2019. But for reasons they never explained publicly, Republican leaders did not bring the measure to the Senate floor during last year’s legislative session.

Governor Kim Reynolds urged lawmakers to act on this issue in her Condition of the State address earlier this month: “We must protect life by making clear, through an amendment, that our constitution does not grant a right to abortion.”

The goal is to make all future abortion restrictions immune from court challenges.

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1. Republicans doing everything they can to bring

the country into the 18th century.

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2. Repubican election year staple. Abortion. Not so much the treatment of disabled. Feds in Glenwood

Well done GOP More tax cuts and guns for iowa failing spectacularly the care of Iowans


http://www.kmaland.com/news/reynolds-comments-on-grc-tour/article_f6994b28-3eb8-11ea-b98c-9fee458f144b.html


Federal investigators plan to be at the Glenwood Resource Center in February and they've asked to see the medical charts for all patients who've died in the past year. Reynolds says conditions at the facility were "not acceptable" and changes are being made -- like bringing in University of Iowa doctors on three different occasions to evaluate the patients.

"The DOJ is collecting their information. They'll report back, but in the interim they've been very, I think, impressed with what we've already done to start to address the concerns that were raised, so we're going to keep doing that and we're going to keep changing policies and procedures and get things turned around and back on track."

The Department of Justice is also investigating allegations the superintendent at Glenwood Resource Center had been doing human experiments on patients. Reynolds place the superintendent on paid leave in November, then fired him on December 30th. Reynolds made her comments in an interview with Bob Fisher of KGLO in Mason City.

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3. Ugh. They're turning Iowa back a hundred years.