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The highest court in Iowa ruled in favor of the state’s six-week abortion ban on Friday, effectively decimating access to care before many people even know that they are pregnant. The law includes exceptions for the life of the pregnant woman and fetal abnormalities that would result in the infant’s death— allowances that medical professionals say are rarely implemented in practice.
Connecticut is seeing more people from out of state applying to UConn's medical school for its focus on abortion care since Roe was overturned, officials said.
Idaho’s law poses no obstacles to EMTALA’s goal of ensuring that everyone, regardless of ability to pay, will receive life-saving care.
In states with near-total bans on abortion, ER doctors and consulting specialists who treat women with severe complications of pregnancy remain caught between what their training and professional ethics directs them to do,
Most abortions will soon be illegal in Iowa after six weeks of pregnancy following the Iowa Supreme Court’s decision Friday to overturn a lower court’s block on the 2023 abortion law. The 4-3 decision allows enforcement of the law that was previously blocked by a temporary injunction in a case challenging Iowa’s law restricting most
For years, our state’s advocates have warned us that the overturning of Roe was only the floor, and since the Dobbs decision, we’ve watched attacks that have not been limited to just abortion — almost every corner of reproductive choice has been a target.
Through the years, justices on the Iowa Supreme Court typically avoid harsh or overzealous language in their decisions. That is why two separate dissenting opinions jumped out Friday when the court issued its long-anticipated decision on the Legislature’s latest attempt to ban nearly all abortions in Iowa.
And how the case demonstrates that states need to do more to clarify abortion law exceptions protecting the life of the mother.
And now that the Supreme Court has upheld Iowa’s abortion ban after six weeks, the North Star State’s role will become even more critical.
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear a case that asks the liberal-majority court to declare that abortion access is a right protected by the state constitution. Here’s a look at how Wisconsin’s abortion laws have changed since 1849.