The Iowa House has voted to ban warrant resolution clinics after a participant in a Polk County clinic was charged a week later with murder.
Tawnya Swanson, the mother of Ashley Marie Hall – the 36-year-old murder victim, was at the statehouse to watch the debate. “She’s looking down on us now and she’s thankful that we’re all here to make sure this doesn’t happen again to another family,” Swanson said.
Republican Representative Steven Holt of Denison said the woman accused of shooting Hall to death is “a career criminal” with a violent background who should never have been able to get her arrest warrant for a parole violation set aside. “Some things transcend politics. This should be one of them,” Holt said. “…This is about three girls who lost their mother, a lost daughter, a life taken way too soon and whether or not laws should be tightened.”…