Tag Archives: women’s rights

Fighting For Freedom

Posted on April 11, 2024 by Trish Nelson

Action Alert from OneIowa – Today April 11th, we will join Planned Parenthood Advocates of Iowa and other partner organizations to show our power ahead of the Iowa Supreme Court oral arguments to determine if the 6-week abortion ban passed … Continue reading →

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Rally For Reproductive Rights Tuesday Iowa State Capitol

Posted on July 10, 2023 by Trish Nelson

Action alert from Johnson County Democrats Please use the below link to sign up to speak at the public hearing on Tuesday, July 11 at 9:30 am. The hearing will go for 90 minutes (only) and speakers will be limited to … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog for Iowa | Tagged #goodtrouble, Iowa abortion ban, Iowa Republicans war on women, Reproductive rights protest, special session, women's rights | Comments Off

A Word From House Democratic Leader Jennifer Konfrst

Posted on March 27, 2023 by Trish Nelson

Protecting Reproductive Freedom All session long, we’ve been working on priorities that a majority of Iowans support and turning those into legislation that will impact the lives of Iowans. We know folks are tired of politics and division they just … Continue reading →

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Iowa Voices On The Repeal of Roe v. Wade

Posted on May 25, 2022 by Trish Nelson

Recently we posted an Al Franken podcast about the leaked SCOTUS draft on Roe v. Wade. In the podcast Al discussed why the founding fathers didn’t mention abortion in the constitution — or women for that matter. We heard from … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog for Iowa | Tagged Rekha Basu, Repeal of Roe v. Wade, Roe v. Wade, women's rights | 1 Comment

We Are Going Back

Posted on May 5, 2022 by Trish Nelson

I don’t really like to just dump negativity out there. But it seems lately that the whole world is freely dumping their negativity everywhere you look in an attempt to make themselves feel better so here’s mine. Deal with it. … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog for Iowa | Tagged Right to privacy, Roe v. Wade, women's rights | 2 Comments

Iowa Women’s March Events

Posted on October 1, 2021 by Trish Nelson

Here is a list of Iowa Women’s March events this weekend. For more information or to RSVP go to Women’s March To find out if there is an event near you go to Women’s March and enter your zip code. … Continue reading →

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There Will Be Marching!

Posted on September 8, 2021 by Trish Nelson

Maybe you have heard that Women’s March Iowa opted to not hold a march. Stated reasons are Covid and too expensive to organize. You can check out the conversation about their decision on their Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/WMIowaOfficial However, there is … Continue reading →

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Jimmy Carter And Prejudice Against Women

Posted on July 29, 2019 by Paul Deaton

On Jan. 19, 1976, the day of the Iowa precinct caucuses that started Jimmy Carter on a path from relative obscurity to becoming the Democratic nominee for president, I was in U.S. Army Basic Training at Fort Jackson, S.C. I … Continue reading →

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Women's Global Leadership Program

Posted on May 26, 2016 by bfiatracykurowski

Women’s Global Leadership Program – Part 1 In March, I had the privilege to participate in the first-ever AFLCIO Women’s Global Leadership Program alongside nearly fifty other women from a broad spectrum of trade unions across the US. It was … Continue reading →

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Sunday Funday- Women’s Herstory Month

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Dave Bradley

First let me thank my mother. Without her, there would be no quiz today. By my observation about half of the world is women. Seems like they must have done something we’d remember (Carol, put that pot down – ouch). … Continue reading →

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