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Iowa lawmakers approve restrictions on telemedicine abortions

By Quad-City Times (Davenport, Iowa) | October 09, 2013

Lawmakers adopted a rule effectively outlawing the practice of telemedicine abortions in Iowa on a party-line vote this week.
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Planned Parenthood sues to block Iowa ban on telemedicine abortion

By Rachel Landen | October 02, 2013

Planned Parenthood of the Heartland filed a lawsuit in federal court Sept. 30 asking a judge to grant a stay against a rule from the Iowa Board of Medicine that would restrict abortion access in the state.
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Groups sue to halt key parts of Texas abortion law

By Will Weissert / Associated Press | September 28, 2013

More than a dozen women's healthcare providers in Texas sued the state Friday, attempting to block as unconstitutional key provisions of a strict new abortion law that drew massive protests and threw the Legislature into chaos before it was approved this summer.
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Iowa board votes to bar abortion pill system

By Catherine Lucey / Associated Press | August 30, 2013

The Iowa Board of Medicine voted Friday to end a unique system in which doctors use the Internet to distribute abortion-inducing pills remotely to patients at clinics across the state.
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New Texas medical school under scrutiny

By Associated Press | August 11, 2013

As the University of Texas prepares to open its medical school in Austin in 2016, it is negotiating the delicate agreements between public university and the religiously-affiliated health care provider who will train its doctors.
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Proposed telemedicine ban proceeds after vote deadlock

By Des Moines (Iowa) Register | August 09, 2013

Iowa legislators have declined for the moment to step into a dispute over whether state regulators should shut down a video-conferencing system used to dispense abortion pills statewide.
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Wis. DOJ says Catholic hospitals can't deny privileges

By Associated Press | August 07, 2013

Three Catholic hospital systems can't deny abortion providers admitting privileges, the Wisconsin Department of Justice said in a legal filing.
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For critics, Kan. abortion law's form also matters

By John Hanna / Associated Press | August 04, 2013

Two Kansas doctors who have filed a lawsuit against a sweeping new state abortion law are attacking its form as well as its substance, hoping their objection to how lawmakers enacted the statute dooms it quickly.
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Judge keeps delay in place on new law for Wis. abortion doctors

By Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | July 31, 2013

A federal judge Wednesday extended for another week a hold on a Wisconsin law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have hospital admitting privileges—a move that will likely halt the law for months, if not permanently.
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Alabama abortion law enforcement to get delayed

By Phillip Rawls / Associated Press | July 20, 2013

Alabama's new law setting stricter requirements for abortion doctors won't be enforced this year.
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