The Supreme Court's ruling again disrupts the landscape of reproductive health in Iowa, where around 4000 women sought abortions last year, as most women now will have to travel outside the state to terminate a pregnancy.
Abortion providers in Iowa have been doing contingency planning for months in advance of the court's ruling, according to Ruth Richardson, president of Planned Parenthood North Central States, which has three Iowa facilities that provide abortion care.
During the court's oral arguments on April 11, the justices quizzed lawyers from both sides on earlier rulings that first expanded and then limited the scope of abortion protections in the state and whether this case should have been sent back to a lower court for further arguments and review.
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