(Radio Iowa) – The Democratic candidate in Iowa’s second congressional district is calling for repeal of the IOWA law that bans most abortions and an end to the taxpayer funded accounts for private K-through-12 students in Iowa. Sarah Corkery of Cedar Falls, says those issues can motivate potential supporters of her bid to unseat Republican Congresswoman Ashley Hinson.

“I say: ‘If you’re mad about women’s rights and you’re mad about education, you’ve got to turn up in Iowa to get anything done,'” Corkery says. Corkery, whose father is a retired Lutheran minister, says Iowa’s private schools are lovely places, but the vast majority are Christian schools.

“We are Christianizing the next generation and it’s not right,” Corkery says. “We should all be able to have our own beliefs and our own thoughts.” Corkery would support a bill in the U-S House to make abortion legal in all 50 states, by putting the language from the overturned Roe v Wade decision in federal law.

Sarah Corkery, Democratic candidate in Iowa’s second congressional district, speaks at the Iowa State Fair on Aug. 13, 2014 (RI photo)

“I truly believe all medical decisions should be between a person and a doctor and there should be no government involvement in this conversation at all,” Corkery says, “so we’ve got a long ways to go from a six week ban to where it’s just a protected health care decision.”

Corkery made her comments late Tuesday afternoon at the Des Moines Register’s Political Soapbox at the Iowa State Fair.