by admin | Sep 29, 2000 | Health & Medicine
The leader of an Iowa anti-abortion group is blasting the Food and Drug Administration’s approval Thursday of the controversial “abortion pill” R-U-four-86.Kim Gordon, the Executive Director of Iowa Right to Life, says it’s the first time the...
by admin | Sep 28, 2000 | Health & Medicine, Politics & Government
The Food and Drug Administration today approved the controversial “abortion pill” R-U-four-86 for use in the United States. The drug went through five years of U-S tests, and Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa participated in those trials. Jill June,...
by admin | Jan 18, 2000 | Crime & Courts
Republican legislators are miffed that a few Iowa attornies are getting 44-milion dollars for working on the state’s successful case against tobacco companies. House Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Larson, a republican from Cedar Rapids, sponsoring a bill...
by admin | Oct 12, 1999 | Health & Medicine
The world’s population is expected to hit six-billion today, a milestone called “startling” by an official at Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa. Judy Rutledge, vice president of governmental affairs, says family planning works in Iowa and globally...
by admin | Sep 24, 1999 | Crime & Courts
The Eighth U-S Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis has unanimously uphelda lower court ruling calling Iowa’s law banning so-called “partial-birthabortions” unconstitutional. The bill was signed into law in March of 1988,but has yet to take effect...
