Caleb McCullough, Gazette-Lee Des Moines Bureau

The rally was organized by a broad coalition of Iowa-based civil rights and reproductive rights organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Iowa and the Great Plains Action Society.

“This will be the largest effort for a midterm election for Republicans in Iowa history,” says the chair of the state GOP.

“The punch line of this report is that it's not one thing, it was a whole fleet of reasons why we saw the high fertilizer prices that we did,” said Chad E. Hart, an Iowa State University economics professor who worked on the study.

Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, announced this week plans to challenge a 2018 district court decision that halted enforcement of the law which would ban abortions after cardiac activity is detected in a fetus — usually around six weeks. Abortion currently is legal in Iowa until 20 weeks of pregnancy.