An Iowa House committee has voted to set new restrictions for medications that induce abortions. The bill would require a doctor to give the pills to a patient in a medical setting. Representative Devon Wood, a Republican from New Market, said the bill would ensure...
A report finds the number of abortions performed in Iowa dropped last year, the first full year of the state’s law banning abortions at around six weeks of pregnancy, with some exceptions. The report from the Guttmacher Institute, which supports abortion rights,...
A hearing at the Iowa Capitol today on a bill that would have banned abortions in Iowa has been cancelled. Twenty-four Republicans in the Iowa House co-sponsored the bill that would have made it a crime for Iowa doctors to perform abortions. Republican Representative...
An Iowa Senate subcommittee has advanced a bill supporters say would prevent abortion pills from being mailed into Iowa by requiring an in-person visit to an Iowa physician before abortion pills can be prescribed in Iowa. Pulse Life Advocates executive director Maggie...
U-S Senate candidate Josh Turek of Council Bluffs says the 53rd anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in America is a reminder that change can happen quickly. “I think there’s a generational chance for us to be able to...
