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Iowa Abortion Providers Scramble to See Patients Before 6-Week Ban Takes Effect

Reproductive health clinics in Iowa are scrambling to see as many patients as they can before the state’s ban on abortion as early as six weeks is expected to go into effect on Friday. “There’s been a lot of frustration, a lot of anger, but also a lot of galvanized resolve among myself and staff to keep doing everything we can for our patients right up until the ban, and then working within the parameters of the law afterward, to continue being here for our patients as much as possible,” says an OBGYN-trained doctor, who works at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Des Moines, Iowa and requested anonymity out of concerns for her safety. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The state’s new bill bans abortion as soon as an ultrasound can detect embryonic or fetal cardiac activity.

 

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