Six-Week Abortion Ban Goes Into Effect in Iowa
Reproductive health care advocates warn the law will have negative impacts in a state already facing care shortages.
Many patients seeking abortion care in Iowa in the past few weeks were unaware that the state has banned most abortions beginning July 29, Planned Parenthood staff said. More than six years after the Legislature first attempted to pass the law, abortion became illegal in Iowa, with narrow exceptions, at 8 a.m. Monday. Kristina Remus, a Planned Parenthood patient services associate…