Des Moines Register
Inside an Iowa Planned Parenthood clinic before abortion ban takes effect
Synopsis
Michaela Ramm for the Des Moines Register captured the final days at an Iowa Planned Parenthood clinic before the state’s 6-week abortion ban took effect. Her reporting looks at the personal toll these bans have on the doctors at the clinic providing some of the last legal abortions in the state. The doctors described the tragedy in what felt like a normal day — seeing a patient who was denied an abortion for an ectopic pregnancy despite multiple diagnoses, another who traveled from Texas to have an abortion — making the doctors wonder where these types of patients will go now.
It’s important for us to understand that even if there is a fund or a navigator to help you get where you need to go, that’s not an easy thing to do and not everybody can do it.
Leitaea Lowrimore went to three ERs in two states in the middle of a medical crisis. No one would treat her.
Kishaya Holloway is an artist in Arkansas. She never questioned her decision to have an abortion, only the barriers that made it difficult to access care.
