Mariannette Miller-Meeks knows she’s one of the most extreme anti-abortion members of Congress, and she’s so desperate to cover it up that she’s lying to her constituents.
When asked at a taxpayer-funded town hall whether she would once again champion the Life At Conception Act – a national abortion ban with no exceptions – Miller-Meeks misled Iowans and said the bill hadn’t come up this Congress. The version she co-sponsored last term didn’t come up for a vote either thanks to House Democrats – but that didn’t stop her from signing on to the radical bill then.
This comes after Miller-Meeks was caught touting an “essentially meaningless” bill she claimed expanded access to contraception. In reality, it was “not clear” what actual impact the bill would have, other than providing a convenient talking point for Miller-Meeks when asked about reproductive freedom.
DCCC Spokesperson Mallory Payne:
“Mariannette Miller-Meeks will go to any length to cover up her extreme anti-abortion record that’s hurting Iowa women – even obfuscating her record and introducing bogus legislation as a distraction.”
It was a year before the Supreme Court would overturn Roe v. Wade. Ms. Steel was one of 166 House Republicans — then roughly three-quarters of the conference — who would ultimately sign on to the legislation, which amounted to a nationwide abortion ban.
By last year, when House Republicans introduced identical legislation, the landscape had changed considerably. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe, setting off a race by many states to impose severe restrictions, and abortion bans became a politically toxic issue for Republicans in elections across the country.
Over the year and a half since the Dobbs decision, it has become clear to many Republicans that taking away a right that women have had for decades does not lead to a positive political outcome for them.
Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Iowa, a former co-sponsor of the [Life At Conception Act] who won her election in 2020 by six votes, has also stayed off the latest version.
When asked directly at an intimate town hall whether she planned to cosponsor the Life at Conception Act in this Congress as she had done in the past, Ms. Miller-Meeks said that “it has not come up yet,” then mentioned that most people define life as beginning between 12 and 15 weeks.
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