Iowa Board of Medicine Hires Former Planned Parenthood regional director as its new head

The Iowa Board of Medicine (IBOM) recently announced its new hire for the position of Executive Director — a former regional director for Planned Parenthood. The Iowa Board of Medicine was created to “protect the public’s health through licensure, investigation and monitoring of physicians who practice in Iowa” and is also charged with “administering state laws and regulations that govern…

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Pro-life Groups Ask Judge To Lift Injunction On Iowa’s Heartbeat Law

In August 2022, attorneys with Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed a brief with the Polk County District Court on behalf of Governor Reynolds and the state of Iowa, arguing that due to the Iowa Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision reversing its 2018 opinion that found a “constitutional right to an abortion” in Iowa, as well as the U.S. Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v.…

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