In particular, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price is connected to the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, an extreme libertarian doctors group that espouses many of the lies about abortion safety long rejected by the medical and scientific communities.
Heath Mello has sponsored a range of anti-choice measures, including a 20-week abortion ban. He was previously endorsed by anti-choice group Nebraska Right to Life.
The state's most prominent anti-choice lobby reportedly collaborated with GOP legislators in Texas to funnel millions to fake clinics, or crisis pregnancy centers.
Jon Ossoff will compete in a runoff election against Karen Handel, who says she wants to be "a trusted partner" of anti-choice organizations looking to erode access to abortion care.
“It will fundamentally change how abortion is accessed in Iowa, and not for the better," said Elizabeth Nash, senior state issue manager at the Guttmacher Institute.
A review of the candidates supported by the Congressional Leadership Fund in 2016 reveals a stringently anti-choice roster whose positions on abortion can hardly be considered centrist.
