The Biden administration on Monday reversed a ban on abortion referrals by family planning clinics, lifting a Trump-era restriction as political and legal battles over abortion grow sharper from Texas to the U.S. Supreme Court.
As a new law out of Texas opens the door to stricter abortion policies nationwide, one Iowa woman who obtained an abortion in 2017 says she fears what further bans in the state could mean for other women.
Drake University law professor thinks the effort by statehouse Republicans to get the Iowa Supreme Court to overturn its 2018 abortion ruling is unlikely to be successful.
DES MOINES (AP) — Sixty Iowa Republican legislators are asking the Iowa Supreme Court to overturn a 2018 ruling that declared abortion a fundamental right under the state Constitution.
One of the nation’s most restrictive abortion bans went into effect in Texas on Wednesday. Abortion advocates in Iowa say this law, as well as an upcoming Supreme Court case, could inspire further abortion restrictions in Iowa in the near future.
The number of abortions performed in Iowa rose 14 percent in 2020. For the second year, the trend on abortions reversed from previous years’ decline on the number of procedures performed in the state.
Gov Kim Reynolds believes Iowa justices will find waiting period constitutional
District Court Judge Mitchell Turner issued a ruling that declared the 2020 law unconstitutional. Abortion rights advocates had asserted it placed an undue burden on women seeking the medical procedure.
State lawmakers advance constitutional amendment as U.S. justices agree to hear abortion case
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether states can ban abortions before a fetus can survive outside the womb.
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