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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Republicans in the Iowa Senate want legislative leaders to revive a measure that would ban the remote distribution of abortion-inducing drugs.

The bill cleared the Republican-majority House, 55-42, but has been declared dead since the Democratic-controlled Senate didnt take action prior to last weeks legislative deadline. In a news conference Monday, minority Republicans called on leaders in the Senate to bring the legislation to the floor for a vote.

We believe, with the help of leadership from both parties, that we can bring this to the floor, said Sen. David Johnson, R-Ocheyedan.

The measure would prohibit the use of webcams or teleconferencing as a means of dispensing abortion pills to patients in remote locations. Instead, women seeking an abortion would have to be in the presence of a physician when receiving the drugs.

Sen. Joe Bolkcom, D-Iowa City, said in a statement that such a measure would mean refusing health care to rural Iowans.

Im disappointed Iowa Republicans have launched a new front in the national so-called war on women by opposing affordable, safe access to health care for rural Iowans, he said.

But Sen. Nancy Boettger, R-Harlan, said the Republican effort is not a war on women. Its for women.

The Iowa Board of Medicine adopted rules last summer regarding the administration of abortion drugs, which were set to go into effect in November. These rules do not explicitly mention telecommunication services, but require the physical presence of a physician.

Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, which provides abortion pills at 12 remote locations throughout Iowa, challenged the regulations, and a judge ruled the organization could keep using video conferencing to distribute the drugs until the matter is resolved by the courts.

Johnson said legislative action is needed to affirm what the Board of Medicine deems good practice. He said banning the remote distribution of abortion pills would not interfere with other applications of telemedicine.

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hide captionFirst lady Michelle Obama at an Affordable Care Act event in March.

First lady Michelle Obama at an Affordable Care Act event in March.

Ever since Republicans began using the words "repeal and replace" back in 2010 to describe their intentions for the Affordable Care Act, they've faced a question: What, exactly, would they replace it with?

While there's currently no clear Republican alternative for the health care law, President Obama's signature domestic achievement, the House Republican leadership is signaling there will be one this year.

The signal came in the form of an interview The Washington Post's Robert Costa had with House Majority Whip Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the third-highest-ranking official in the House GOP's leadership.

The goal: give voters a clear way to distinguish the Republican and Democratic approaches as part of the GOP plan to bludgeon Democrats with the controversial health care law at every opportunity this midterm election year.

While there apparently isn't yet a detailed alternative to analyze, the concepts being considered as part of the proposed replacement are far from new. Indeed, they've been part of Republican alternatives from conservative think tanks like the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation.

The final GOP package could include old standbys like health savings accounts, expanding state-run high-risk pools for the hardest-to-insure individuals, and the sale of insurance across state lines.

One immediate problem for Republicans is that these ideas don't exactly have buy-in from the insurance industry like, say, the individual mandate did, and without its backing, they would be hard to pull off.

Indeed, the insurance industry might be expected to fiercely lobby with its ample war chest against some, if not all, the GOP proposals.

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February 6, 2014.. CPAC 2014 and Mark Levin admits he knows the Republican Party broke laws in order to empower the establishment at the RNC in Tampa Bay 2012.

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