After a 74% drop in abortion services, Iowans increasingly cross state lines for care, while Illinois and other neighbors shoulder a regional burden. Tuesday marks one year since a law that bans...
Correction: The Iowa Senate confirms the governor's appointments to agency heads. It does not confirm judge picks. This article has been correct to reflect that. A special election in Sioux...
A divided Supreme Court allowed states to cut off Medicaid money to Planned Parenthood in a ruling handed down Thursday amid a wider Republican-backed push to defund the country’s biggest abortion provider.
Christina Bohannan is taking another shot at unseating embattled US Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, after losing by just 799 votes in 2024. Iowa law professor Christina Bohannan wants another...
The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it would revoke guidance to the nation's hospitals that directed them to provide emergency abortions for women when they are necessary to stabilize their medical condition.
Since Iowa’s near-total abortion ban went into effect in July 2024, the number of residents seeking abortion care outside the state has surged dramatically. So has the number of people turning to abortion funds for help.
Planned Parenthood is contracting amid the federal government’s moves to freeze and reduce funding for OB-GYN care across the nation. Four clinics will close in Iowa. Planned Parenthood announced...
Abortion is already excluded from coverage—the new bill is going after all health care services the clinics provide for low-income Americans.
A new study has found that from May to August 2022, vasectomies surged by 95% and tubal sterilizations increased by 70% among adults ages 19 to 26. Health care professionals across the country have seen this in real time.
A new analysis from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that since 2022, states with near-total abortion bans appear to have lost 36,000 people per quarter, with single people, who...
