Media Releases & Statements

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Media inquiries should be sent via email to editor@aclu-ia.org or contact Communications Director Veronica Fowler at 515-207-0586.

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Iowa Ag Gag Lawsuit Gets Important Green Light

Today a federal judge ruled that a challenge by various free speech, food safety, and animal rights groups to Iowa's "ag gag" law could proceed--an important legal green light in the lawsuit.

February 27, 2018

Iowa Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments On Appeal of One of the Most Severe Abortion Restrictions in U.S.

Des Moines, Iowa – Today the Iowa Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case challenging abortion restrictions passed last session. If the Court rules in favor of Planned Parenthood and the ACLU of Iowa, the state will be barred from enforcing two portions of those restrictions.

February 14, 2018

Iowa Supreme Court Grants Motion to Stay Enforcement of One of the Most Severe Abortion Restrictions in U.S.

Des Moines, Iowa – Yesterday the Iowa Supreme Court granted a motion to stay the enforcement of a law requiring women seeking an abortion to wait a minimum of 72 hours after their first appointment and make a second, medically unnecessary trip to their health care provider.

October 24, 2017

ACLU, Others Challenge Constitutionality of Iowa's "Ag Gag" Law

A broad coalition of public interest groups have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Iowa’s so-called “ag gag” law.

October 10, 2017

ACLU of Iowa Launches Research Project on Court Debt and the Criminalization of Poverty in Iowa

Des Moines, Iowa — In Iowa and across the nation, court debt is unfairly perpetuating downward spirals of poverty for people. For those people who go to jail, court debt also makes it far more difficult to successfully rehabilitate and re-enter society.

October 9, 2017

Planned Parenthood of the Heartland and ACLU File Appeal Against One of the Most Severe Abortion Restrictions in U.S.

Des Moines, Iowa — Today the Polk County District Court declined to block a law requiring women seeking an abortion to wait 72 hours after their first appointment and make a second, medically unnecessary trip to their health care provider to access abortion care.

October 2, 2017