By Dave Andrusko

Jenifer Bowen, Iowa Right to Life Executive Director
Thanks to Iowa Right to Life, NRLC’s state affiliate, for reminding us of the news that abortions in Iowa have dropped not 10%, not 25%, not even 33% since 2007. The latest statistics shows that the number of babies lost to abortion has dropped 40%!
In 2007 there were 6,649 abortions performed in Iowa. In 2014 the number had dropped to 4,020 abortions, according to the Iowa Department of Public Health. That was a 9% decline from 2013!
Iowa Right to Life wrote
Certainly THIRTEEN Planned Parenthoods closing in Iowa since 2012 has had a significant life-saving impact. We are so grateful for the hundreds of volunteers who pray outside the remaining 13 Planned Parenthood clinics and Iowa City’s Emma Goldman abortion facility. …
Iowa Right to Life executive director Jenifer Bowen, was interviewed by the state’s largest and most influential newspaper, the Des Moines Register. According to reporter Tony Leys, Bowen said that when the 2015 numbers are published
Iowans will see an even bigger drop. She noted the recent national controversy over Planned Parenthood, fueled by videos that opponents say show agency leaders dickering over prices for parts of aborted fetuses to be used for research.
Those videos are making more women question the agency, she said. “They’re not comfortable with where Planned Parenthood is,” she said.
Bowen also said she hopes to see results from a bill the Legislature passed last spring, requiring abortion providers to offer women the chance to see an ultrasound image before undergoing the procedure.