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A recently introduced bill could have far-reaching impact on the U.S. sugar industry, including American Crystal Sugar, a farmer-owned cooperative that locked out 1,300 Midwest workers on Aug. 1.
The chairman for Herman Cain’s Iowa effort says the campaign “relied more on the word of farmers than Washington regulators” in deciding to run an ad containing claims the Environmental Protection Agency says are false.
The Iowa Senate will remain under the control of a slim 26-25 Democratic majority when it reconvenes in January 2012.
Norma McCorvey, known to most as “Jane Roe” in the landmark medical privacy case Roe v. Wade, will show her support for Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback during the Ames Straw Poll on Saturday.
“Sam Brownback is the right person, in the right place at the right time for our nation as we seek to embrace a culture of life,” she said in a prepared statement. “I call on pro-life Iowans to voter for Senator Brownback in Ames this Saturday. Our nation needs a president with strength, courage and moral fortitude — one who will lead our society on a path that respects human life and dignity.”
In 1970, McCorvey was the plaintiff in a case challenging a Texas law prohibiting abortion. At that time, she had claimed her pregnancy was the result of rape, a statement she has since declared a lie. The case eventually made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973, when it was ruled that most laws against abortion violated a constitutional right to privacy under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment.
In a 1994 autobiography, “I am Roe,” she described her life with long-time lesbian partner Connie Gonzales. Following her conversion into first Christianity and then Roman Catholicism, McCorvey described herself as a “reformed lesbian.”
In 1995, the year she became a born-again Christian, McCorvey has recanted her previous abortion-rights stance. She has converted to the Roman Catholic Church and has toured the nation in an attempt to have Roe v. Wade reversed. As a part of that quest, she launched Roe No More Ministry (now known as Crossing Over Ministry).
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