On the heels of a ruling from Iowa’s Supreme Court striking down a ban of telemedicine use for abortions previously made by the state’s board of medicine, the public is losing faith in the board, according to an editorial in the Des Moines Register.
The newspaper is calling for the four board members remaining who voted for the ban to resign. Those members are Hamed Tewfik, M.D., Diane Clark, Allison Schoenfelder and Julie Carmody.
“These individuals cannot be trusted to objectively carry out board duties,” the editorial says. “How will they handle a complaint against a physician who performs abortions or is openly prochoice? What other tactics will they pursue to try to make it more difficult to access a legal procedure or drug because they personally disagree with it?” Editorial
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