Crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) may look like medical clinics, but many are not licensed or regulated healthcare providers. Understanding the difference between CPCs and medical clinics helps ensure you receive accurate, evidence-based information when making decisions about pregnancy and care.

This week, SSB 3115 and HSB 704 advanced out of subcommittee after public hearings that included testimony from Iowa physicians and ACOG leadership. Two additional House bills remain in early stages. As funnel week approaches, here’s what these proposals would do, where they stand, and what happens next.

New Iowa legislation would restrict mailed mifepristone and expand reporting requirements. Here’s what the bills propose and how they could affect access to care.

Understanding how the Iowa legislative process works helps clarify how policies move from ideas to law. This guide explains each step from subcommittees to the governor’s desk and how Iowans can follow issues that impact their communities.

In rural Iowa, access to healthcare is shaped by distance, provider shortages, and timing. This article examines what happens when mailed medication abortion isn’t available and how geography alone can determine medical outcomes.

Medication abortion has become a focal point in state policy debates nationwide. This article explains why mailed mifepristone is being targeted in legislative discussions and what those proposals could mean for access to early care in Iowa.

Iowa’s 2026 legislative session has begun, and reproductive healthcare is again on the agenda. This article outlines the key policy areas being discussed and why they matter for access to care across the state, especially in rural communities.

Jess Djukanovic shares her story of denial, fear, and the harsh reality of Iowa’s abortion restrictions.

For more than 100 years, reproductive healthcare advanced step by step, empowering people to make their own medical decisions. Today, those long-fought gains face unprecedented challenge and rapid change.

Dr. Laurie Siddall reflects on Iowa’s growing maternal health crisis, from OB closures in Newton to a shortage of cancer care. She calls for stronger training, outreach, and fairer reimbursement to ensure women across the state have access to the care they deserve.

Despite Iowa’s 6-week abortion ban, some reproductive healthcare remains legal. Abortion is allowed before 6 weeks, and emergency contraception, IUDs, STI testing, and prenatal care are still available, though access can vary widely by location.

In post-Dobbs America, over 400 people in 16 states have been prosecuted for pregnancy outcomes, including miscarriages & stillbirths. At least 16 of those cases involved homicide charges. Across states, new bills are now pushing to criminalize abortion as murder, threatening both patients and providers. This isn’t speculation, it’s happening now.

Abortion bans don’t just impact those seeking abortions. In Iowa and other states with restrictive reproductive laws, we’re seeing ripple effects across the entire healthcare system—especially in OB-GYN care. From a surge in patients seeking sterilization to a drop in residency applications from future providers, the consequences are far-reaching a

After Roe v. Wade was overturned, Iowa enacted a 6-week abortion ban, however it’s doctors, not patients, who now face the consequences. This article breaks down how vague legal definitions and oversight by the state’s Board of Medicine are pushing OB/GYNs out of Iowa and putting patient care at risk.

Get to know the dedicated board members guiding the Iowa Coalition for Reproductive Freedom. Meet the medical, legal, and advocacy experts working to protect reproductive healthcare access across Iowa.