DES MOINES – Iowa Democratic Party Chairwoman Sue Dvorsky released the following statement after Steve King and Tom Latham showed their true priorities and voted to decrease access to health care for Iowa women:

“Steve King and Tom Latham have abandoned their promise to focus on creating jobs by voting to make it more difficult for Iowa women to access basic services, including cancer screenings. With their vote for this bill, King and Latham have once again put their state last and an irresponsible political agenda first.

“Iowans deserve better. They deserve someone who will not play partisan games with the health and well-being of Iowa women.”

The bill, HR 358, passed the House on a vote of 251 to 172. Iowa’s Democratic congressmen all opposed it (Roll Call Vote 789).

Instead of focusing on his constituents, Congressman King has been spending his time casting dangerous votes and promoting the GOP presidential primary.

Yesterday, by a vote of 251 to 172, the Republican House of Representatives passed a draconian anti-choice bill that endangers women at their most vulnerable. This bill has no chance of passing the Senate and President Obama said he will veto it.

IDP Chair Sue Dvorsky had this to say:

Steve King and Tom Latham have abandoned their promise to focus on creating jobs by voting to make it more difficult for Iowa women to access basic services, including cancer screenings. With their vote for this bill, King and Latham have once again put their state last and an irresponsible political agenda first.

Iowans deserve better. They deserve someone who will not play partisan games with the health and well-being of Iowa women.

Iowa’s Democratic congressmen all opposed it.

When he’s not holding tea party rallies on the taxpayer’s dime or missing important votes to stock his war chest, Congressman King has been trying to keep his name in the headlines as a potential “kingmaker” in the Republican presidential primary. This week, it was reported that King would travel to Michigan to campaign on behalf of Rep. Pete Hoekstra in his Republican primary.

Iowans deserve a representative who will go to work for them, not someone who will travel the country promoting an extreme agenda.

From NPR:

It used to be that opposition to publicly funded birth control was linked to abortion.

Either the birth control in question allegedly caused abortion, or the organization providing the birth control (read: Planned Parenthood) also performed abortions. But that’s changing.

These days, more and more voices are opposing the provision of birth control for its own sake.

Read the full story here.