Three women state leaders who represent the Kent-Des Moines area in the Legislature were among those who joined Washington\u2019s U.S. Democratic Sen. Patty Murray at a Seattle Planned Parenthood clinic about the urgent need to protect the right to abortion.<\/p>\n
State Sen. Karen Keiser, D-Des Moines; State Rep. Tina Orwall, D-Des Moines; and State. Rep. Debra Entenman, D-Kent, were three of the nearly two dozen women at a May 6 press conference to support the passage by Congress of the Women\u2019s Health Protection Act in the wake of the news that the U.S. Supreme Court plans to overturn Roe v. Wade and end the constitutional right to abortion.<\/p>\n
During the event, Murray thanked the Planned Parenthood staff for their tireless work providing patients with the health care they need, and made clear that she stands with everyone enraged by this week\u2019s news\u2014and won\u2019t stop fighting, according to a Murray press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Three women state leaders who represent the Kent-Des Moines area in the Legislature were among those who joined Washington\u2019s U.S. Democratic Sen. Patty Murray at a Seattle Planned Parenthood clinic about the urgent need to protect the right to abortion. State Sen. Karen Keiser, D-Des Moines; State Rep. Tina Orwall, D-Des Moines; and State. Rep. Debra Entenman, D-Kent, were three of the nearly two dozen women at a May 6 press conference to support the passage by Congress of the Women\u2019s Health Protection Act in the wake of the news that the U.S. Supreme Court plans to overturn Roe v….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":2933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"disable_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"yoast_head":"\n