Iowa's abortion clinics worked to see the last patients before the new "fetal heartbeat" ban takes effect Monday.

More than 4,000 abortions were performed in Iowa last year, a number expected to plummet once the state’s strict ban goes into effect Monday morning.

An Iowa law that bans abortion as early as six weeks of pregnancy will go into effect Monday, July 29, at 8 a.m. On Tuesday, a district court judge filed a motion to dissolve the temporary ...

Iowa's hotly contested six-week abortion ban officially is in effect. Enforcement of the state’s so-called "fetal heartbeat" law went into effect at 8 a.m. July 29 after the Iowa Supreme Court ...

DES MOINES, Iowa – An Iowa judge has ruled the state's hotly contested six-week abortion ban will officially take effect on July 29, just over a year after Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds signed it ...

An Iowa judge has ruled the state's strict abortion law will take effect Monday, preventing most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant.

Iowa’s law banning most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy took effect Monday morning at 8 a.m. following an Iowa Supreme Court decision in June that found the law to be constitutional.

Iowa's ban on nearly all abortions as early as six weeks of pregnancy takes effect on Monday. Iowa joins 17 other states that restrict abortions then or earlier.

Iowa’s 6-Week Abortion Ban Takes Effect The Iowa Supreme Court ruled last month that the Republican-backed law could be enforced. Abortions had been legal in the state up until about 22 weeks.

The Iowa law bans abortions after cardiac activity is detectable in an embryo, something that can occur as early as six weeks of gestation. There are some exceptions to the ban, including for rape ...

An Iowa law banning most abortions will take effect Monday. It prohibits abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected — around six weeks into pregnancy.

DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa’s strict abortion law went into effect Monday, immediately prohibiting most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant. Iowa ...