Meet Dr. Kathryn Allen (D-Utah) Running To Replace Jason Chaffetz In Congress

Meet Dr. Kathryn Allen (D-Utah) Running To Replace Jason Chaffetz In Congress

Dr. Kathryn Allen is the Democratic candidate running in Utah's special November election to fill former Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz' seat. Allen intended to run against Chaffetz in 2018 and by April 2017, she had out-raised him by $400,000. It makes us wonder -- was Chaffetz afraid of losing to Allen and is this why he abruptly retired? Now Allen runs in the special election for Chaffetz' seat in November. 

Allen attended the rally in which then Congressman Chaffetz was confronted by a woman who stood up to tell Chaffetz that Planned Parenthood had provided vital screenings for her as an uninsured single mother of three with a family history of cancer. In a moment that went viral, she asked Chaffetz why he's trying to kill Planned Parenthood.

The Congressman got teary-eyed and talked about cancer in his family. "Enough!" say the Democratic women of America.  

“We are so tired of men making decisions for us,” Allen says. “The GOP has assaulted all of these things that many women care deeply about,” including health care, women’s reproductive rights, climate change, and education, to name a few. For Allen, it conjures a primal analogy: “If you harm our young, we’re going to come after you like a mama bear.”