Jim Lamb, a life advocate of Lutheran Family Service, said he isn’t a constitutional scholar, but he wonders why after 163 years a supposed right to kill unborn children was suddenly found in the Iowa Constitution.
“I would ask Planned Parenthood why did they take so long to use this,” he said. “Why, for example, did you not use it with the 20-week ban. Just curious.”
He asked why in 1858, six months after the Iowa Constitution was written, the Iowa Legislature passed an act for the punishment of killing an unborn baby.
“Did they forget that they had just granted such a right in the newly approved constitution,” he said. “Could it be that such a right was never there? Never has been.”
Lamb had a 16-week model of an unborn baby. He asked about his right to defend the lives of unborn children.
He referenced people who say they’re here to defend the rights of women and girls in Iowa.
“Good for them,” he said. “But I think it’s important for us to understand approximately 30 million little girls, including 150,000 in Iowa, have had their lives snuffed out before they were born and will never have the privilege of becoming a woman. Why can’t I have the right to speak for them?”
Lamb finished by asking the legislators not to listen to him, but to instead listen to their hearts.
