Planned Parenthood supporters threw condoms at Carly Fiorina in Iowa


About 15 Planned Parenthood protesters chanted and threw condoms at Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina on Saturday as she campaigned at a University of Iowa football tailgate, ABC News reports. One even dressed as a monthly supply of birth control pills.
A condom landed on Fiorina's head, which she immediately swatted off.
At CNN's Republican debate earlier in September, Fiorina performed well — and surged in polls afterward — but also drew criticism in response to her comments about the women's health clinic. She incorrectly claimed video footage shows Planned Parenthood keeping a fetus alive to harvest its brain.
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Fiorina repeated the claim Saturday, telling a Planned Parenthood patient, "You need to ask yourself some questions, [like] why is it that fetuses are butchered alive to harvest their brains. Why?"
Watch Fiorina supporters and protesters clash below. Julie Kliegman
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