Letter to the Editor: Submitted by Ann Hart

To the Editor:

The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen embryos created through in vitro fertilization (IVF) are considered children under state law and are subject to the wrongful death of a minor law, if one is destroyed. Ridiculous, you say? We have a U.S. Representative who must not think so as she was a sponsor for the Life At Conception Act along with 124 other members of her political party.

That party has become a patriarchal theocracy. They seek to control a woman’s body. They intend to control our reproductive freedom, our right to abortion, IVF, and soon, contraception. The U.S. Supreme Court is deciding the legality for the distribution of mifepristone, often known as the morning after pill. This is frequently given to women who have been raped, though not in Iowa, as Attorney General Brenna Bird does not believe in it.

Iowa women, have you not had enough? It is this same political party who is banning books. It is this same political party who is rewriting our history. It is this same political party that controls funding for education. It is this same political party that wants to control what they refer to as “recreational sex.”

It is this same political party that wants to control you.

It is up to women, and those who support us, to defeat them at the ballot box.

Ann Hart
Waukon