\u201cWe need to decimate the chemical abortions,\u201d Steen said. \u201cYou talk about water quality, what\u2019s happening in our water because of that, those chemical abortions that are coming through there.\u201d<\/p>\n
The comment received relatively little notice apart from a few mentions on social media<\/a>. However, Steen\u2019s claim was notable both as an indication of how far to the right the GOP gubernatorial hopefuls are running in a state that already bans most abortions after six weeks and because it is part of a national push from anti-abortion groups to make speculative and far fetched environmental concerns a core part of their messaging. The effort to frame abortion medication as a threat to the water supply is one such claim, and lacks any concrete scientific basis.<\/p>\n Read more at Talking Points Memo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cWe need to decimate the chemical abortions,\u201d Steen said. \u201cYou talk about water quality, what\u2019s happening in our water because of that, those chemical abortions that are coming through there.\u201d The comment received relatively little notice apart from a few mentions on social media. However, Steen\u2019s claim was notable both as an indication of how … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[172,215,129,104,137,210,345,622],"class_list":["post-3805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortion-bans","tag-anti-abortion-candidates","tag-environmental-laws","tag-fetal-personhood","tag-gop","tag-iowa","tag-medication-abortion","tag-wastewater-monitoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3806,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions\/3806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}