Tag: web-cam abortions

By Dave Andrusko After a lengthy run-up, the issue of webcam abortions will come squarely before the Iowa Supreme Court this Wednesday. The Des Moines Register’s Tony Leys, who has covered the issue for the state’s dominant newspaper, dropped a new piece of information in his story today: When Planned Parenthood lawyers go before the …

  By Dave Andrusko As we reported last month, Polk County District Court Judge Jeffrey Farrell upheld a 2013 decision by the Iowa Board of Medicine which declared that Planned Parenthood of the Heartland’s use of webcam abortions was unsafe.  Unless Farrell or the Iowa Supreme Court ordered another stay, Farrell said his order affirming …

  By Dave Andrusko The Des Moines Register reported this morning that Polk County District Court Judge Jeffrey Farrell has ruled that the Iowa Board of Medicine was within its authority to require abortionists to be physically present when dispensing chemical abortifacients to pregnant women. That decision, rendered last September, was challenged by one of …

By Dave Andrusko Although the vote Monday by the Iowa Legislature’s Administrative Rules Review Committee was not unexpected, the decision to reject Planned Parenthood of the Heartland request to delay a new rule on so-called “web-cam” abortions was not only encouraging but represented the last challenge outside of the courts. The Administrative Rules Review Committee …