Once again, the anti-abortion front attempts another maneuver to further limit women’s rights over their own bodies. This one comes from the state of Iowa, where a petition is being circulated in hopes of making public abortion funding unobtainable to anyone in the state, regardless of the circumstances of their situation. They seek to end all government funding of Medicaid, arguing that it violates state laws. This includes (or rather specifically attacks) abortions in cases of rape, incest, severe birth defects and when a birth threatens the life of the mother.
Of course, many of those who will be affected are unable to pay for these services on their own. To make matters even more ludicrous, the total number of abortions of these types during the entirety of last year adds up to 22, five of which were performed to save the lives of the mothers. This seems a rather small number of serious cases to garner so much attention from anti-abortion groups.
