Tuesday will mark one year since Iowa’s fetal heartbeat abortion law went into effect. The law bans abortion when cardiac activity is detected, which could be as early as six weeks. The president of Planned Parenthood North Central States, Ruth Richardson, says...
The Iowa March for Life is this Saturday at the State Capitol. Pulse Life Advocates executive director Maggie DeWitte says they started the event three years ago when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. “We felt it was very important that we...
The Iowa Senate has sent the governor a bill to mandate that Iowa public school students — starting in fifth grade — be shown ultrasounds and videos of fetal development in health classes. It doesn’t directly mention an anti-abortion group’s...
An Iowa House subcommittee has approved a bill that would mandate that Iowa providers of medication abortions post a sign saying that it may be possible to reverse the effects of an abortion-inducing drug. The bill also calls on those providers to give patients a...
Governor Kim Reynolds says the 2024 election was a political “lesson” on how voters view the abortion issue. “Abortion extremism was just resoundingly defeated in the presidential race and in Iowa,” Reynolds said early this afternoon. Reynolds...
