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Iowa abortion law threatens rural maternity care access
Dr. Emily Boevers stands as the sole full-time OBGYN at a critical access hospital in a rural Iowa city, about 10 miles from her childhood farm. She is the only full-time OBGYN in the county, in a state that recently enacted a restrictive abortion law. Iowa’s new law, effective last week, bans most abortions once fetal cardiac activity is detected,…