What's the matter with Iowa? All-male, all-white House majority leadership fights on the front lines of the GOP War Against Women

 

Photo credits: Iowa Legislature

Headline:  Des Moines Register, 3/8/2014

Iowans would face more prison time for ending a pregnancy without consent under a bill that passed the House Thursday but that Democrats warn would treat embryos as people and endanger medical procedures such as in vitro fertilization. 

Democrats repeatedly raised concerns that the bill could jeopardize in vitro fertilization treatment in Iowa after a state Supreme Court ruling in Alabama last month found that embryos frozen as part of the IVF process are legally protected as children. 

The ruling caused several clinics in the state to halt IVF treatments.\