Monday, October 29, Planned Parenthood Voters of Iowa President Erin Davison-Rippey, former Planned Parenthood Voters of Iowa President Jill June, Planned Parenthood Voters of Iowa Public Affairs Manager Jamie Burch, and local patients will hold a roundtable discussion on Governor Reynolds’ and Iowa Republicans’ attacks on women’s health care and attempts to insert government in to private health care decisions.

From defunding critical health care providers like Planned Parenthood, to stripping hardworking Iowa women of care though the privatized Medicaid disaster, to passing the most extreme anti-choice law in the country, Iowa Republicans, led by Governor Reynolds, consistently put ideology and partisanship ahead of the rights and health of Iowa women.

The truth is Governor Reynolds’ disastrous policies on women’s health care have turned Iowa into a “contraceptive desert.” Newly released state data shows a staggering 50 percent drop in family planning program enrollment and a 73 percent decline in family planning services since Planned Parenthood’s defunding that has forced four clinics to close their doors and 15,000 Iowans to lose their local provider. Two-thirds of counties in Iowa don’t have OB-GYN’s and Iowa has the second fewest OB-GYN’s in the country. There are fewer than two OB-GYN’s per 10,000 women in Iowa.

Governor Reynolds has even said she is open to punishing doctors who perform abortions the same way we punish murderers. Furthermore, Reynolds admitted in an IPTV interview that she did not believe that there should be any exceptions for abortion in cases of rape or incest.

Iowa Republicans have put their partisan ideology ahead of Iowa women’s right to obtaining safe, legal health care. Iowans deserve representatives who are fighting for them, and Governor Reynolds and Republicans in the Statehouse are not those people.

Members of the press who are interested in attending events should RSVP to Sydney McDevitt at smcdevitt@iowademocrats.org.

GOVERNOR REYNOLDS AND REPUBLICANS RECORD: WOMEN’S HEALTH CARE

WHO: Planned Parenthood Voters of Iowa President Erin Davison-Rippey, Former Planned Parenthood Voters of Iowa President Jill June, Planned Parenthood Voters of Iowa Public Affairs Manager Jamie Burch, local patients
WHAT: Women’s Health Round Table
WHEN: Monday, October 29, 12:00 PM
WHERE: Planned Parenthood of the Heartland Noun Building, 818 5th Ave, Suite 200 (second floor) Des Moines, IA

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