During the Primary Election, Terry Branstad said he would support an Oklahoma-style abortion law.
Carroll Daily Times Herald columnist Doug Burns wrote about Branstad's take on the Oklahoma law today. Here's an excerpt from his column:
A few weeks ago, in an effort to appeal to his party’s base, Terry Branstad threw uncompromising (and one suspects uninformed) support behind an Oklahoma law that requires pregnant women to watch ultrasounds of their fetuses and listen to details from doctors about the function of vital organs.Read the rest of the story here
Whether they want to or not.
There are no exemptions for rape or incest, meaning women can be forced to watch a monitor showing the product of a violent attack against them.
In the Des Moines Register Republican primary debate this past May, Branstad, now his party’s candidate for governor in the fall, simply answered “yes” without qualifications when asked if Iowa women should be under the requirements of the controversial Oklahoma law.
That law, by the way, took effect last Thursday, July 1.
The law is strongly opposed by the Oklahoma State Medical Association, Ken King, the executive director of that organization, told the Daily Times Herald in a phone interview from Oklahoma City.
The medical association views the law as intruding into a doctor’s judgment.