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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Shannon Lundgren- 2023 Update [1]
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Date: 2023-09-26
On this date in both 2021, as well as 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Shannon Lundgren, a member of the Iowa House of Representatives from District 57 who was first elected to office back in 2016.
Prior to reaching office during that 2016 campaign, Lundgren claimed she was the victim of vandalism after several lawn signs supposedly vanished, and/or were covered in spray paint (plus one family vehicle). Her opponent in that race, Tom Stecher, denounced the vandals, and no link ever seemed to emerge during the police investigation. Most of her legislative priorities are conservative dreck, like trying to force schoolchildren to take the Pledge of Allegiance every day, or voting to try and block cities and municipalities from choosing to raise their own minimum wage.
But where Shannon Lundgren keeps popping up on our radar is when it comes to her fanatical stance on abortion. In 2017, we were dumbfounded when we saw a news story featuring her because she wrote legislation that would insist women who had already suffered a miscarriage must still carry their dead fetuses to term. Her exact quote during debate on the bill:
Now, we’ll correct her that at 20 weeks, the “dead baby” is still not a baby, it’s a fetus… but it’s more importantly a DEAD FETUS whose rights Lundgren holds more dear than the living woman with those remains inside of her. While no Republicans in the chamber corrected Lundgren at the time, it wasn’t until outcry began after a video of it circulated online that the Iowa GOP claimed she “misspoke”.
Bulls*** she did. She meant that.
Lundgren’s name appeared again in 2018, when she was the manager of amendments to a bill regulating the transfer of fetal tissue that suddenly began a ban on abortion when a fetal heartbeat is detected, or at 6 weeks. At the time, it was the most restrictive bill to woman’s health in the nation, but we’ve seen some people cribbing her notes since. The goal was nothing short of putting something in place that would eventually lead to Roe v Wade being overturned.
We will conclude by pointing out that Lundgren is so “pro-life” that she voted against mask mandates for public school students during the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as a prohibition on vaccine passports, which weren’t even being suggested at the time.
So she can choke on her hypocrisy, to boot.
No one bothered to run against Shannon Lundgren in 2022, which set her up to pass another six week ban on abortion, because she was furious the one she passed in 2018 got overturned in the courts, and wants to waste more taxpayer dollars on the state losing the inevitable lawsuit. Plus, during debate on the bill, she rallied her fellow anti-choice lunatics to reject an amendment that would allow children aged 10-12 and their parents to seek an abortion... but, being a forced birth zealot, she’s fine with that scenario.
Hopefully, someone runs against her in 2024, and holds her into account.
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