Pro-abortion to the gills, the Guttmacher Institute this week reported that there were a whopping 22% fewer abortions in Iowa in 2025 than there were in 2024. The welcomed drop (to pro-lifers) in abortions was from 3,380 to 3,050.
2025 was the first full year Iowa’s “Fetal Heartbeat Act”–Senate File 579– was in effect.
“The data include numbers from Iowans who got abortions at one of the state’s brick-and-mortar clinics and through telehealth appointments, including those who received abortion pills from out-of-state medical providers in states with shield laws,” according to Natalie Krebs of Iowa Public Radio.
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Iowa’s first Heartbeat Law was passed in 2018, but meeting the predictable fierce opposition in court, never took effect. A second Heartbeat bill passed in 202 and with a newly constituted state Supreme Court finally took effect on July 29, 2024.
Krebs also reported that
The most recent figures show people traveling to Iowa for abortion care has sharply declined since the law went into effect. In 2023, 420 people traveled to the state for care. That number dropped to 170 in 2024. Last year, it was less than 50 people. The Guttmacher Institute withholds the exact count if the total is less than 50.
Pro-lifers were ecstatic over the decline in the number of children lost to abortion and the “recent closure [of] several Planned Parenthood clinics, including one in Ames that provided abortions.”
Seeing the numbers of clinician-provided abortions drop in Iowa is a good thing for our state,” said Maggie DeWitte, the executive director of Pulse Life Advocates. “We only have three abortion clinics in the state — three too many — but a big reduction from where we have been in previous years.
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