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Here’s a wish list for the 2025 legislative session.

Stop making life harder for Iowans.
Stop interfering with health care professionals, teachers, and librarians. They know more about their professions than you do.
Stop messing with the Area Education Agencies. Despite mass public outcry, they “reorganized” them anyway.
Stop criminalizing abortions. Limiting reproductive health care sharply increases maternity and infant deaths. Plus, a clear majority of Iowans support abortions in all or most cases.
Stop bullying LGBTQ+ people, especially the kids. EVERYONE deserves to be treated with dignity.

Instead, they should:

Pass the “Work Without Worry” bill. This will help Iowans with disabilities work toward a more self-sufficient life.
Do something — anything — to fix Iowa’s nursing home crisis. Keep our seniors safe.
Pass the Seizure Safe Schools bill. Educators should know how to care for a student having a seizure.
Do something — anything — to clean up Iowa’s polluted waterways.
Revisit the 2024 CBD law. Iowans with intractable epilepsy rely on CBD to reduce their seizures. Do not criminalize people who need CBD for a better quality of life.
Do something — anything — to reduce Iowa’s increasing cancer rate, the second highest in the nation.
Fund our public schools at a level that keeps pace with inflation.

These measures would improve Iowans’ lives instead of making our lives harder.

Our legislators were not elected to serve a party or any one person. They were elected to serve the people. Listen to the people!

Gordie Felger

Hiawatha

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Wish list for upcoming Iowa legislative session