For Iowa womens’ health, elect Democrats

Look to the future, Folks!

Look ahead five years. Iowa, already an OB-GYN desert in 2024, will lose even more gynecologists because the 6-week abortion ban has made appropriately practicing medicine for them a near impossibility. Now imagine that you — or your wife, daughter, mother, sister — need to see an OB-GYN. Perhaps it is a high-risk pregnancy. Perhaps it is a test result that indicates the possibility of cancer. Whatever the situation, time is of the essence. But the earliest appointment is three months out — due to the shortage of OB-GYNs.

Do we want this future for our daughters and granddaughters? Will we allow women’s health, and even their lives, to be put at risk because some in state government feel a need to control the personal lives of over half the population?

The only way to prevent this scenario is to elect Democrats to the Iowa Legislature and Sarah Corkery to the U.S. Congress.

Mary Palmer

Mount Vernon