Iowa has a new, strict, abortion law that prohibits abortion before most people know they’re pregnant. But there are still ways to obtain one or get help to do so. Here's how.
In a one-day special session called just weeks after the Iowa Supreme Court ruled against their previous attempt to ban abortion, Republicans in the Iowa House and Senate rushed through yet another law to restrict reproductive freedoms. The newly-passed bill,...
Hundreds packed the Iowa State Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday and made their voices heard to protest the abortion ban being considered by Republicans in the other room. The latest polling shows 61% of Iowans support abortion being legal in all or most cases. While...
Abortion bans endanger people’s lives and fly in the face of medical science and training. That was the message delivered by Dr. Emily Boevers, an OB-GYN in Waverly; Dr. Francesca Turner, an OB-GYN in Des Moines; and Dr. Jill Meadows, the former medical director...
Republicans in the Iowa Legislature have dropped their new six-week abortion ban, which will be heard during the special legislative session starting Tuesday, July 11. The law requires physicians test for “a detectable fetal heartbeat” with an abdominal ultrasound...
UPS workers in Des Moines hosted a rally Friday morning to prepare and practice for the possibility of a strike later this summer.
When the Iowa Supreme Court failed to reinstate a 2018 six-week abortion ban, the 3-3 split sparked reactions across the political spectrum. Democratic figures and reproductive rights organizations cheered the decision. Republicans and others who oppose the idea...
Iowa Democrats aren't sure how, but they do know Republicans won’t stop trying to take reproductive rights away.
Iowa is full of old buildings—some over a hundred years old, and some with significant impacts on the communities they're in.
Iowa has a well-documented problem with child care, particularly the availability of care and the cost of it—leading to impacts on Iowa’s workforce.
