This is starting to get ugly ... the race to replace Senator Tom Harkin in Iowa ...
Too liberal vs. too conservative in Iowa Senate race
by Dana Bash, CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent -- Sept 19, 2014
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Smiling straight to camera, Ernst says in the ad that she knows how to cut pork because she grew up on a farm castrating pigs. The squealing pigs in the background became a trademark of her campaign.
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One of the practical results of the personhood measure -- life starts at conception -- is that it would likely outlaw some forms of birth control.
She tried to distance herself from that notion, telling us, "Heavens, no."
"I am someone who supports a woman's right to birth control, absolutely, so to say that is absolutely false and misleading," she said. "So, if women would like to talk to me about those items, I am happy to talk it over. Birth control yes, and promoting a culture of life, yes."
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Iowa's Bruce Braley, Joni Ernst Duel Over Abortion
by Thomas Beaumont, AP; huffingtonpost.com -- 10/17/2014
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Republican candidate Joni Ernst defended her opposition to abortion rights during Thursday's final debate between her and Iowa Democrat Bruce Braley in their neck-and-neck race for a U.S. Senate seat, but she said for the first time that she might support a legal exception to save the life of the mother.
The issue has come to define the final weeks of their campaigns to succeed retiring Democrat Sen. Tom Harkin. Polls show more women support Braley, a congressman from northeast Iowa, and more men back Ernst, a state senator from southwest Iowa.
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Braley also argued that Ernst's support for contraception was inconsistent with her support for the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that said employers could choose on grounds of religious belief not to comply with part of the health care law that requires contraception coverage.
"You can't say you support that right and then say it's OK for employers to interfere with it," Braley said.
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June 30 --
www.facebook.com/joniforiowa
"I applaud the Supreme Court for reigning in a government that continues to overreach and apply a one-size fits all approach on the American people."
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Joni Ernst Campaign Makes Statement on Burwell v Hobby Lobby Case
She "supports" women having Birth Control -- just not as a part of any Employer provided Insurance Plan.
How's that "culture of life" theme, working out for you now, women of Iowa?
Joni is "happy to talk it over." ... I suggest you start 'chatting' -- Now.
And here's a blast from the past, future-present ... also monitoring the Iowa contest:
Is Iowa’s Lady Wannabe Senator Joni Ernst Stupid Or Just Really Stupid?
by Kaili Joy Gray, wonkette.com -- Oct 17 10:30 am 2014
Iowa state Sen. Joni Ernst is definitely not the brightest belle in the drawer. She’s hoping to get elected to the U.S. Senate on a platform of arresting the government for Obamacare, warning the rural folk about Agenda 21′s plot to make them ride bicycles like common Chinese, and also something about castrating pigs.
So we are not exactly surprised that while she keeps insisting she does yes too care about women’s health — she’s a woman, after all, unlike her opponent, Rep. Bruce Braley; he’s not a woman, you know!
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So yes, sure, she’d love to amend the Constitution to prohibit all women everywhere from having abortions or even using certain types of birth control — that’s what personhood amendments do — but it’s not realistic, so don’t hold it against her, okay?
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In their debate in September, he “lectured” her about the personhood bill she introduced in the Iowa Senate in 2013, because she seemed to be very confused about her own proposed legislation. She said it would “not do any of the things” that Rep. Braley said it would do because it was “simply a statement that I support life.”
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The Personhood Amendment: Rights for eggs but not for women
by Kaili Joy Gray for Daily Kos -- Oct 30, 2011
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It's a pretty sad commentary on the state of affairs in Mississippi when it's considered politically risky to stand up against this kind of insanity. Even some of the staunchest forced birthers, like National Right to Life and the Roman Catholic bishops oppose the Personhood Amendment [next link]. Of course, their opposition isn't ideological. They're just afraid it's a poor tactic that could backfire and set them back in their ultimate crusade to, yes, outlaw all abortion and birth control.
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Push for ‘Personhood’ Amendment Represents New Tack in Abortion Fight
by Erik Eckholm, nytimes.com -- Oct 25, 2011
A constitutional amendment facing voters in Mississippi on Nov. 8, and similar initiatives brewing in half a dozen other states including Florida and Ohio, would declare a fertilized human egg to be a legal person, effectively branding abortion and some forms of birth control as murder.
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The amendment in Mississippi would ban virtually all abortions, including those resulting from rape or incest. It would bar some birth control methods, including IUDs and “morning-after pills,” which prevent fertilized eggs from implanting in the uterus. It would also outlaw the destruction of embryos created in laboratories.
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Either you believe in access to Birth Control or you don't, Ms Ernst.
Which is it?
When it comes to human reproductive rights, adult pro-creating voters would like to have them too;
Unlike 'the pigs' you use to wrangle back in the day. Snip. Snip.
OUCH! That's -- gonna leave a mark.