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Chocolaterie Stam
Distance: 2.0 Mi2814 Ingersoll Ave
50312-4013 Des Moines -
Ingersoll Avenue Area
Distance: 2.3 Mi1922 Ingersoll Ave
50312 Des Moines -
The Quilt Block
Distance: 3.2 Mi325 5th Street
50265 West Des Moines -
Allied Construction Services
Distance: 3.3 Mi2122 Fleur Dr
50321 Des Moines -
Fox Web Design
Distance: 3.1 Mi1671 NW 84th St
50325-1003 Clive
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Eight pro-life organizations from Des Moines, Ames, Dubuque, Sheldon-Hospers, Clinton, Sioux City, Waterloo and Cedar Rapids were represented that day. We were men and women of different religious beliefs, professions and political parties - all united in one basic belief - the right to life for ALL. We chose Iowans For L.I.F.E. (Life Is For Everyone). Our choice was to reflect our concern for all human life from conception until natural death. We were not strictly an anti-abortion group. Our concerns were to be directed to the unborn, disabled and elderly. We saw the need to unite our eight individual groups into a state wide organization to be united in one voice and better able to lobby our cause at the Iowa State Capitol. We began to gather signatures for a petition to our state legislators to retain our 115 year old Iowa law that forbade abortion. Feminist groups had initiated legislation to remove it...