Pro-Choice Voter Guide: Iowa District 04

Rep. Steve King

Rep. Steve King (R) is anti-choice. He is the incumbent.

• Rep. King earned a 0-percent score in NARAL Pro-Choice America's 2011 Congressional Record on Choice.

• Voted twice to block Planned Parenthood from receiving any federal funds, which would have denied millions of Americans access to contraception, cancer screenings, and other basic medical care.

• Voted for H.R.3, a bill that would ban abortion coverage in state health-insurance exchanges; impose tax penalties on small businesses and many individuals who purchase private health plans that include abortion coverage; and make permanent several restrictions that block many women from accessing abortion care.

• Voted to allow hospitals to refuse to provide emergency abortion care to women who could die without it.

• Rep. King touts his anti-choice beliefs on his campaign website.

• Rep. King offered legislation to ban the use of federal funds for prescription or discussion of medical abortion (RU 486).

• Rep. King said, "I stand firm in the fundamental belief that life begins at conception. A moral society cannot be sustained unless full human rights are extended to the unborn. Success in the pro-life movement will usher in a new era of personal responsibility and moral integrity. By merely debating atrocities such as partial-birth abortion, embryonic stem cell research, and human cloning, our children learn that life is a statistic and not God's precious gift. We must instill our youth with the principle that no individual or institution can marginalize or destroy life."

• When asked about a scenario of a 12-year-old getting pregnant, Rep. King answered "Well I just haven't heard of that being a circumstance that's been brought to me in any personal way and I'd be open to hearing discussion about that subject matter."

• Endorsed by the anti-choice Susan B. Anthony's List PAC.

Martin Monroe

Martin Monroe (I) has no known position on choice.