Posts by Jenifer Bowen

Jenifer Bowen has expressed frustration over the state’s inability to defund Planned Parenthood, pointing to Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal as the key roadblock. While Republican Governor Terry Branstad supports cutting off taxpayer funding to the abortion provider, he lacks the authority to do so unilaterally. With a narrow Democratic majority in the Iowa Senate,…

On October 10, 2015, KCCI TV aired an interview with Jenifer Bowen, then the Executive Director of Iowa Right to Life, regarding the controversial undercover videos released about Planned Parenthood. These videos, produced by the Center for Medical Progress, purportedly showed officials from Planned Parenthood discussing the procurement and sale of fetal tissue, raising national…

Two years ago Iowa Right to Life broke the devastating news that Planned Parenthood had covertly moved into the same building as the Young Women’s Resource Center in Des Moines, Iowa.  They billed themselves as “myHealth Express”, a place for the “treatment of colds and the flu.” We knew at the time they had NO intention of…

As mentioned in yesterday’s article, there are three organizations supporting Planned Parenthood in a Friend of the Court Brief to the Iowa Supreme Court in the Planned Parenthood of the Heartland v. Iowa Board of Medicine.  The brief is against the Iowa Board of Medicine’s ban on abortions by telemedicine (also known as webcam abortions.) And while…

An Amicus Curieae, or “Friend of the Court Brief” has been submitted to the Iowa Supreme Court on behalf of Planned Parenthood of the Heartland.  But some of the studies cited in the brief include chilling quotes that aren’t too friendly to Planned Parenthood. The case before the Iowa Supreme Court, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland,…

The Des Moines Register’s editorial board misses the irony that their opposition to online schools conflicts with their support of telemed abortions. Best. Quote. Ever. The Des Moines Register editorial staff was really hot and bothered in a 2/5/15 staff editorial about the online schools and home-schools. (“For-profit online schools raise questions,” 2/5/15) The big stink was that…

Abortion statistics in Nebraska are showing large numbers of women from Iowa having abortions in Nebraska—many times more than women from Nebraska’s other neighboring states. In 2013, 129 abortions in Nebraska were performed on women from Iowa, compared to 24 from South Dakota, 18 from Kansas and none from Colorado that same year. In 2012, 185 abortions in Nebraska were women from Iowa, compared to 26 from…

Over the holiday weekend, Iowa Right to Life became aware of a new danger for Iowa children and teenagers. Planned Parenthood’s former URL, teenwire (dot) com, is now occupied by a pornographer advertising teen escorts, online sex and other bad content. School districts throughout Iowa and beyond that are using any sex ed materials with content from Planned Parenthood…