Iowa Republicans Try to Block Federal Funding For Abortions In Cases Of Rape or Incest

The New York Times Blog: Anti-Abortion Grandstanding, by Andrew Rosenthal:

Republican lawmakers are tireless in their protection of gun ownership. Their argument is that states and localities have no right to play around with Americans’ constitutional rights and, anyway, the Supreme Court has spoken on this.

They are equally tireless in their effort to deny another constitutional right – to privacy. The Supreme Court has also spoken on a woman’s right to decide when and whether to have a child. But it seems like a week doesn’t go by without news of some group of Republican officials trying to deny those rights to women, especially poor women. . . .