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- Abortion in Iowa is legal. In 2014, a poll by the Pew Research Center found that 52% of Iowa adults said that abortion should be legal vs. 46% that believe it should be illegal in all or most cases. By 2012, state legislators introduced bills to ban abortion in almost all cases on a yearly basis. The number of abortion clinics in Iowa has fluctuated over the years. There were 25 in 1982, 11 in 1992, 12 in 2014, and 8 in 2017. There were 3,760 legal abortions in Iowa in 2017. A #StoptheBans protest occurred at the Statehouse in Des Moines on May 21, 2019. In 2017, Iowa rejected millions of dollars in federal funding for Medicaid as part of their efforts to try to defund Planned Parenthood and its abortion services in the state. In 2020, it was reported that abortions in Iowa went up for the first time in decades—25 percent—with the loss of that federal aid attributed to the increase. In 2018, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, Inc., Jill Meadows, M.D., and Emma Goldman Clinic (petitioners) filed a lawsuit seeking declaratory and injunctive relief in state court, arguing the early abortion ban violated the Iowa State Constitution. Courts supported their injunction request, saying the law violated the state's constitution. In February 2020, the State Senate passed a constitutional amendment clarifying that there is no right to an abortion in the Iowa constitution. The amendment must now pass the House, the legislature again in 2022, and a statewide vote before it becomes law. (en)
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- Abortion in Iowa is legal. In 2014, a poll by the Pew Research Center found that 52% of Iowa adults said that abortion should be legal vs. 46% that believe it should be illegal in all or most cases. By 2012, state legislators introduced bills to ban abortion in almost all cases on a yearly basis. The number of abortion clinics in Iowa has fluctuated over the years. There were 25 in 1982, 11 in 1992, 12 in 2014, and 8 in 2017. There were 3,760 legal abortions in Iowa in 2017. A #StoptheBans protest occurred at the Statehouse in Des Moines on May 21, 2019. (en)
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