PLANNED PARENTHOOD v. REYNOLDS EX REL.

No. 17-1579.

915 N.W.2d 206 (2018)

PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND and Jill Meadows, Appellants, v. Kimberly K. REYNOLDS EX REL. STATE of Iowa and Iowa Board of Medicine, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed June 29, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alice Clapman of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Washington, D.C., and Rita Bettis of American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa Foundation, Des Moines, for appellants.

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, Jeffrey S. Thompson , Solicitor General, and Thomas J. Ogden , Assistant Attorney General, for appellees.

Roxanne Conlin of Roxanne Conlin & Associates, P.C., Des Moines, for amicus curiae Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence, et al.

Heather Shumaker of National Abortion Federation, Washington, D.C., and Sally Frank , Des Moines, for amicus curiae National Abortion Federation.

Melissa C. Hasso of Sherinian & Hasso Law Firm, Des Moines, and Angela C. Vigil of Baker & McKenzie LLP, Miami, Florida, for amicus curiae Biomedical Ethicists.

Bob Rush of Rush & Nicholson, P.L.C., Cedar Rapids, and B. Jessie Hill of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, for amicus curiae Iowa Professors of Law and of Women's Studies.

Kimberly A. Parker and Lesley Fredin of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, D.C.; Paloma Naderi of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Boston, Massachusetts; and Paige Fiedler of Fiedler & Timmer, Johnston, for amicus curiae American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Frank B. Harty of Nyemaster Goode, P.C., Des Moines, and Paul Benjamin Linton , Northbrook, Illinois, for amicus curiae Iowa Catholic Conference.


In this appeal, we must decide if the constitutional right of women to choose to terminate a pregnancy is unreasonably restricted by a statute that prohibits the exercise of the right for a period of seventy-two hours after going to a doctor. In making this decision, we recognize the continuing debate in society over abortion...

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