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SSB 3115

A bill for an act relating to abortions including informed consent, dispensing abortion-inducing drugs, and reporting abortion-inducing drug complications.

Agenda

Subcommittee members: Schultz-CH, Weiner, Westrich

Date: Monday, February 9, 2026

Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Location: Room 315

Comments Submitted:

The purpose of comments is to provide information to members of the subcommittee.

Names and comments are public records. Remaining information is considered a confidential record.

02-08-2026

Daniel Stratman

I strongly oppose SSB 3115. This bill interferes with the patientdoctor relationship by mandating the dissemination of medically unproven information regarding "abortion reversal," a practice unsupported by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. By requiring inperson dispensing, the bill effectively bans telehealth for medication abortion, disproportionately harming rural Iowans who lack local access to reproductive healthcare. Furthermore, Division II creates a dangerous "private cause of action" allowing family memberspotentially including estranged partners or abusersto sue providers for $50,000. This provision is designed to intimidate medical professionals and will further drive doctors out of Iowa. The invasive reporting requirements for "complications," defined broadly to include common psychological responses, violate patient privacy and aim to generate skewed data to justify further restrictions. Please vote NO.

02-08-2026

Kaibrea Durham

Like the 64% of Iowans who support access to safe, legal abortion, I oppose this bill.Making abortion harder to access does not make it safer. It makes it more dangerous. If the goal of this Legislature is to protect Iowans health, this bill fails that test. When lawmakers restrict access to evidencebased medical care, people dont stop needing abortions they lose access to safe ones.So I have to ask: is the job of this Legislature to improve public health outcomes for Iowans, or to make care more dangerous through political interference? Because bills like SSB 3115 do the latter. They substitute ideology for medical expertise and create barriers that disproportionately harm rural Iowans and those with fewer resources.Iowans deserve policies that make health care safer and more accessible not laws that increase risk while pretending to do the opposite. I urge you to reject SSB 3115 and get to work on the issues actually impacting our oncegreat state.

02-08-2026

Michele Zamzow

This bill is of no benefit to the citizens of Iowa. Every word of this is driven by influence from the altright christian nationalists. Kim, Joni and Chuck have already fed us into the project 2025 grinder, state representatives must stop the advance of government overreach.

02-08-2026

Scarlet Kaefring

I strongly oppose this proposed bill because it would significantly harm access to healthcare for Iowans, especially those in rural communities who rely on telehealth services. Requiring unnecessary inperson exams and allowing third parties to sue following private medical decisions creates dangerous barriers to care, undermines patient privacy, and interferes with the relationship between individuals and their healthcare providers. Expanding state tracking of personal health data, including miscarriages, is deeply concerning and invites government overreach into some of the most sensitive moments of peoples lives. Iowa families deserve policies that protect access to healthcare, respect medical expertise, and uphold personal privacy. They do not deserve legislation that creates fear, legal risk, and reduced care for those who need it most.

02-08-2026

Jane Robinette

Please oppose this bill. It interferes with the doctorpatient relationship by requiring healthcare professionals to mislead patients about the reversibility of medication abortion, as well as convey other information designed only to scare and pressure the person seeking an abortion. Doctors should not be forced to provide information that is medically inaccurate and misleading in a way that could harm a patient. Furthermore, banning telehealth services only harms rural Iowans who don't have medical facilities nearby, or who can't find physicians who will provide them the care they seek. Politicians should not be involved in medically advising patients or intruding in their personal reproductive decisions. This bill is yet another attempt to burden doctors and shame patients seeking care. Vote no on SSB3115.

02-08-2026

Anita Christensen

Please oppose SSB3115. We must consider all people who are involved in the outcome of this bill. Telehealth can be a lifeline for people living in rural communities who lack healthcare nearby. Women have miscarriages and other health issues that might lead to needing the care that this bill deems illegal. The life of the woman matters. Please think about the lives of women being threatened by an unstable pregnancy. This bill will harm rural folks and women our mothers, daughters, sisters, friends, etc. Vote NO on SSB3115.

02-08-2026

Lisa Martincik

I strenuously oppose this bill, and ask that you please cease inserting government into private healthcare decisions and the patient/provider relationship. Neither healthcare providers nor prospective patients have requested this bill, nor does not come from a place of expertise or abundant study; it can only inconvenience at best and endanger at worst Iowans already struggling under a beleaguered healthcare system. This bill would materially worsen the lives of many Iowans, with no positives.

02-08-2026

Cecilia Roudabush

I strongly oppose this bill. I can be at UIHC in 10 minutes from my home, but my brothers and sisters in rural Iowa may only have telehealth care available to them. Why would you take away all treatments to just stop abortion? I lost my muchawaited and wanted first child at 12 weeks to miscarriage. Why would you track that? What will you do to those who are already experiencing the pain of losing their precious child? Vote NO!

02-08-2026

Thief King Bakura [Thief King]

Obvious I OPPOse such VILe, Abhorrent, and Disgusting legislation! Why are we wasting our time with such gross and backwards legislation!? THIS is NOT the Iowa I recognize!! Women and AFAB people already have to deal with unnecessary risks when concerning their pregnancies. Why are we going backwards into the stone ages with women's healthcare instead of making sure women/AFAB people have access to safe and affordable healthcare!! Also why guy telehealth!!? Not everyone has the means: ability to go see their Doctor's in person when they are sometimes MILES away!? Again, what are you guys doing!? VOTE NO on this garbage bill! YOU Legislators have been pushing through some absolutely garbage, got awful, truly heinous, and just downright backwards bullshit legislation. This is not the Iowa I know. We should not be going backwards! Vote no on this stupid bill. What are you guys doing!

02-08-2026

Thief King Bakura [Thief King]

02-08-2026

KAZUTO KIRIGAYA [(Black Moon cats) ]

I OPPOSE THIS BILL FOR SO MANY REASONS!! Telehealth is important to many across our state. And to consider even gutting it is absolutely vile...So is going even more backwards in Women's health care! DO Better!! But you probably won't because we have hateful legislators who want to control people's access to healthcare and lifesaving medicine or outright deny said healthcare on "religious grounds" Give me a Goddamned break!! Absolutely vile whoever proposed this legislation and others like it. Once again, you waste our time instead of actually listening to the Iowans you represent! Y'all should be ashamed of yourselves! But you're not. . Gotta pass that heritage foundation puppet legislation while you can huh!? We will remember this and I hope you guys get voted OUT! AND hopefully legislators who actually listen and care will take your seats which you stain with your hatred! Jesus wants healthcare for all!!! Abortion is Healthcare!! Telehealth is Healthcare! But you don't care. Shame

02-08-2026

Madelyn Adams

Oppose SSB 3115.In a world where everything is continuing to fall apart, lets not add fuel to the fire. Forcing women to give birth is ridiculous. There are people who are having sex responsibly who still might need to use the pill once in their life. No one has all the time to wait on a doctor it takes longer to get in for than the window of the pill being successful and pray for the best. This bill will butterfly affect a lot of issues to get worse. 1. Mortality rates some people use protection and still need the pill. Some of those people are going to be high risk pregnancies.2. Spike in the foster system some people will try to make it work and fail, some will not even try. The system is crowded enough.3. Birth rates could get worse if people decide to play it safe4. Male loneliness epidemic definitely not gonna be having many one night stands to fill the insatiable need to be adored.Plus anything I havent included.

02-08-2026

Carrie Kayser

Strongly oppose this bill and ask the subcommittee to vote no. This act would provide false information on chemical abortions, reduce care accessibility to already underserved communities and put unnecessary strain on the existing healthcare system and doctors.

02-08-2026

Alisa Meggitt

This bill is a direct attack on reproductive freedom and access to healthcare in Iowa. Restricting telehealth, forcing unnecessary inperson exams, and threatening providers with civil penalties will make essential care inaccessible especially for rural Iowans. Allowing family members or biological fathers to file lawsuits over a womans medical decisions is an extreme invasion of privacy and bodily autonomy.Government tracking of pregnancy outcomes, including miscarriages, is alarming and dangerous. These policies do not protect families they control women.Healthcare decisions belong to patients and their providers, not politicians.Please vote no on SSB 3115.

02-09-2026

Madeline Cole

We all want to reduce abortions, but this is NOT the way to do it. Better sex education, increased access to birth control, and better social services have been shown OVER AND OVER to successfully reduce unwanted pregnancies and to be the most effective way to reduce abortions. If you're trying to have a positive impact on the citizens of Iowa, oppose this bill and invest in support, not harassment.

02-09-2026

Heather Staton

Strongly OpposeWhy are our lawmakers ignoring medical professionals. Actual doctors have repeatedly debunked that chemical abortions are reversible. We fought this nonsense a year ago and now Iowa Republicans are bringing it back again? Actual doctors were in the room during subcommittee for a similar bill last year, they testified that this was untrue, yet the two republican reps passed it through subcommittee anyway. Now we are doing this again? At what point do our representatives start representing their constituents rather than the Family Leader?"The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) does not support prescribing progesterone to stop a medication abortion, labeling it as unproven and not supported by clinical evidence. They note that up to half of patients who take mifepristone alone may not complete the abortion, suggesting that success with "reversal" may be due to not taking the second medication"Unproven, unethical, and not backed by science.

02-09-2026

Ann Klingensmith

NO! This bill is an attack on a woman's ability to make personal healthcare decisions. The medication in question has been approved and used for over 25 years. It is safe and effective but that is not the point of this bill.

02-09-2026

Chelsea Mumm

I strongly urge you to reject SSB 3115. There are decades of scientifically sound research, as well as FDA approval, proving that medication abortion (mifepristone and misoprostol) is safe. Forcing patients to hear and doctors to offer the language laid out in this bill is not based on data or reason. This is purely a political attempt to further restrict healthcare access in Iowa, sow fear among patients and doctors, and insert governmental in control into healthcare decisions where it is unnecessary and deeply concerning. Please consult the data when you are considering whether to move this bill forward. Please reject SSB 3115.

02-09-2026

Emily Smith

I oppose SSB 3115This bill is terrible for Iowans. And Horrible for people who can give birth. Awful For rural people who need access to medical care but do not have local providersTelehealth does so much good in rural communities. Our personal health data should not be tracked Miscarriages should not be tracked In person exams and on sight dispensing of medication is going to hit poor and rural Iowans the worst. This bill is proposing actively doing harm and reducing access to healthcare. Again I strongly oppose this bill.

02-09-2026

Stacy Reinhart

I strongly oppose this bill. As a parent in a rural community, I rely on Telehealth services many times for minor child health care services. My child's school is 30 minutes away from my home, and 45 minutes from our physician. there are no physicians within 30 miles of my child's school. A visit to the physician during regular office hours not only presents scheduling difficulties with my job, but also with the school: A simple ear infection can cost me half a day of work and 2 hours of drive time, while the same Telehealth appointment can be done in the evening, with no missed school, and no missed work. My Telehealth providers have always been thorough, professional, and efficient and provide a needed services to those of us in areas with fewer clinics.Also, there is no reason to make abortions more difficult in this state. We've seen a huge drop from 2024, and the last thing we need are more pregnant teen mothers that the state isn't willing to support financially or emotionally.

02-09-2026

Mary Kovarna

Please oppose SSB3115This is an infringement of privacy rights for all Iowans. Not only does it violate privacy rights but it also puts politicians in charge of healthcare rather than healthcare providers. I have been a nurse for over forty years and know that the nurses in Iowa do not support State control of healthcare or healthcare data. Thank you,

02-09-2026

Tracy Daugherty

I am watching with alarm as a number of bills are being put forth that profoundly impact reproductive rights and access to health care via telehealth. SSB 3115 is one such problematic proposal that I ask you to reject today because it blatantly blocks Iowans abilities to make personal, medical decisions based on science. Further, the bill offers multiple challenges for doctors trying to provide care to patients in underserved areas of Iowa where telemedicine has proven a safe and reliable mode.Strike down SSB 3115 as it is bad for Iowas health care system.

02-09-2026

Abby Collins

I oppose this bill. This is iigovernment overreach into a private medical decision that a person should be free to make in consultation with their care provider. It makes pregnant people less safe and gives abusers another lever of control. This sets a precedent for criminalizing other medical procedures based on the whims of politicians who are not trained medical professionals. This bill is wholly inappropriate and, in a world where women were valued as human beings, it would not even be proposed, much less debated or brought to a vote.

02-09-2026

Brandi Steck

I strongly oppose this bill. Women deserve access to medically accurate and private healthcare. Healthcare decisions should be made between the patient and their provider not by legislators!! This bill is harmful to women living in the state of Iowa by making important lifesaving healthcare impossible to obtain.

02-09-2026

Mary Stefaniak [AAUW Iowa]

I urge you to vote against SSB3115. It increases the health risks of pregnancy and interferes with the doctor/patient relationship. How can a doctor advise a woman on her best chances for a healthy pregnancy now or in the future if the best choice of treatment has been declared against the law? Bills like this are a sure way to contribute to the falling birth rate in Iowa by discouraging women from undertaking the many health risks of pregnancy.

02-09-2026

Michaela Rich

Reject SSB 3115For reproductive health care, including abortion, we need to make sound decisions based on medical facts and science. Medical abortion is safe and has been approved by the FDA. Iowans should be allowed to have this medication available to them when making private, personal, healthcare choices. It should not be up to the government to take safe medical care choices away from women.

02-09-2026

Olivia West

I strongly oppose SSB 3115. This bill further restricts access to a known safe medical treatment. Mifepristone is a safer medication than penicillin and viagra and is being wrongfully demonized by lawmakers. This country was founded on freedom and we as Iowans deserve the right to freedom of choice.

02-09-2026

Russ Damgaard

Seems you could leave the ladies children and other's in need alone or offer support. Fuck no legislation to protect the pedophiles and the preachers dogma that created a party of buffoons eating the diapers off of the pedophile billionaires that own them. They prey on their own children for validation of the bigot. How about just take that fucking bill and shove it right up the ass of your nearest pedophile Republican bitch.

02-09-2026

Leanne Williams

Please stop SSB 3115. This harmful bill does nothing to address real healthcare concerns of women. My Christian faith calls me to advocate for safe, affordable access to healthcare, with the ability of an individual to make an informed and confidential decision about their own body with their health provider. If you want to support life, please use your energy and authority to fight for clean water, access to quality school nutrition, safe and accountable social services, and mental health support.

02-09-2026

Angela Tague [self]

I STRONGLY OPPOSE SSB 3115. This and all antiabortion bills/laws only serve to interfere with a patient's right to medically necessary HEALTH CARE!! Bills like this do not STOP this need, rather than only make it harder to access leading to the patient's health potentially being jeopardized.Regardless of the REASON(S) someone seeks out an abortion, it is in no way someone else's business (especially politicos). Rather just like any other HEALTH care decision, it should remain between patient, doctors and family.Do we legislate vasectomies? Why not?It is often misrepresented that women use abortions as a primary means of birth control. That, is simply wrong as more than half of all women getting abortions used contraception during the month they became pregnant. If abortion (only) were used as a primary method of birth control, a typical woman would have at least two or three pregnancies per year 30 or more during her lifetime. This bill serves only to jeopardize health.

02-09-2026

Norma Ewinger

I strongly oppose this bill because it will harm the doctor/patient relationship. It would require women to see a doctor in person which would require many to drive two hours one way due to there being a desert of OB/GYNs in the rural areas of our state. There is no reason for the government to insert itself into decisions best left to the woman, her doctor and her God. This bill is trying to force everyone to abide by the religious views of a few farright religious beliefs not shared by 64% of people. That is not freedom of religion and therefore this bill should not move forward.

02-09-2026

Norma Ewinger

02-09-2026

Angela Tague [self]

02-06-2026

Michele Davis

Telehealth is healthcare for many people across our state and nation. A separation of church and state is mandated by our Constitution. Healthcare is between an individual and their doctor. This bill is damaging to the independence of women everywhere. Keep religion out of healthcare. This bill only moves females toward the direction of being considered property again.

02-06-2026

Rebekah Jacobs

Please vote Opposed to SSB3115. This bill is requiring doctors to tell a bunch of lies. The USDA does not recommend that women come back to their providers to see if there is any tissue remaining after 2 weeks, and there is no way to reverse the abortion pill. And then there is language added to make a law compromising women's rights to medical privacy by requiring the doctors to fill out a form describing her and her private medical information to submit to the state; are we wasting tax money on gossip columns next? And to top it all off, adding definitions of "interested parties" to include a possible sperm donor, parents, siblings or grandparents for adult women violates HIPPA. This bill is gross government overreach and if passed will be overturned by its dubious legalities. Stop wasting our tax money.

02-06-2026

Chris Gleason

Why do Republicans continue to discriminate against rural Iowans? Isnt Iowas motto Our liberties we prize, and our rights we will maintain? Republicans seem to have forgotten that. This bill also affects rural seniors. I do not support this proposed bill.

02-06-2026

Dianna Townsend

Just stop this government over reach. Already rural health care has huge obstacles in getting health care to citizens. Especially female citizens. How about doing something helpful and inclusive vs a hindrance and exclusive?

02-06-2026

Lynn Kloft

This bill is gross government overreach and if passed should be overturned by its dubious legalities. Stop wasting our tax money. Vote what the people you serve want. Not by who has given the most money and/or favors to your group. Iowans (both rural and urban) have a right to healthcare access; whether inperson or by telehealth. Let women choose the healthcare they need. Not the healthcare MEN want us to have.

02-06-2026

Judy Schumacher

The services in this bill are vital to us in rural Iowa. Recently had to use telehealth for my checkup. I am 82 yrs old and being iwad40 that day n I was Not going to make it outa my house I was able to keep the appointment. Not all us live in cities like legislators do. We in rural Iowa demand you kee us in rural Iowa in mind when voting. Well be watching how YOUR voting goes & will remember this when our voting turn comes this Fall

02-06-2026

Teresa Wellman

Please OPPOSE this bill. This legislation does not come from doctors. Reversing a medically induced abortion IS NOT POSSIBLE. Opening up channels for interested parties to sue providers for damages is outrageous. It goes against womens autonomy and privacy. Its no one elses business. They are not subject to the physiological and psychological stress of pregnancy, childbirth, and child rearing. Third parties have no standing. This legislature also uses copious language that wants to define a fetus as unborn child. NO NO NO.

02-06-2026

Samantha Spurgin

This bill not only attacks reproductive rights but also harms rural Iowans specifically. Rural Iowans deserve the same access to reproductive care as Iowans in big cities. Women deserve the right to make medical decisions about their bodies without fear of legal retribution from their families.

02-06-2026

Anthony Farrell

Telehealth services and related reproductive services are crucial to the health of a community. Iowa already been pushed backward in from providing topnotch medical services because of prior legislation. Women neee options for healthcare or our maternal mortality rate will continue o declines. Evidence of this is already present in rural communities. We do not want to race to the bottom.

02-06-2026

Tasha Lindley

Vote no on this bill.One third of Iowa's counties are maternity care deserts. The rural women of Iowa deserve health care access and removing telehealth as an option only hurts us more. Stand up and fight for our rural communities by voting no to this awful bill.

02-06-2026

Ellen Rasmussen

I strongly oppose this bill.I value the strength and the intelligence of women in the state of Iowa. I believe that they, with the expertise of their physicians, can make the best choices for themselves and their families. This bill further inserts the government into the exam room for women. It disrespects them and treats them as though they cannot make their own decisions. There is a reason that Iowa has the lowest OB/Gyn providers per capita in the nation. Physicians do not want to practice here. By focusing on one element of reproductive care, you deny all women access to the care they need. They can't get that care because there are not enough providers.

02-06-2026

Barbara Gienapp

Please oppose this horrible bill! We need telahealth access for women in this state. With so many doctors leaving Iowa due to the current political climate many women have no other access to healthcare. The state of Iowa has no business dictating what goes on between women and their physicians! This legislation is clearly misguided!

02-06-2026

Jill Kordick

SSB 3115 would harm rural Iowans by restricting healthcare access and increasing costs. Telehealth is essential in rural Iowa, where distance and provider shortages already limit care. By forcing inperson exams and onsite dispensing, this bill creates unnecessary barriers that require long travel, time off work, and delayed care all of which drive up costs and worsen outcomes. The added legal risk and expanded health data tracking will further discourage providers from serving rural communities, deepening shortages and raising healthcare costs across the system without improving patient safety.

02-06-2026

Anna Kronenberger

Stop trying to take away bodily autonomy from women! Stop trying to cause actual harm to living breathing people. Telehealth provides real access to healthcare to people who cannot easily access in person healthcare for a variety of reasons. Politicians have no place in a womans healthcare choices. Maybe try working on water quality and Iowas staggering cancer rates. Perhaps expand access to healthcare versus trying to take care away.

02-06-2026

Emily McCauley

Vote to Opposed SSB3115. This bill takes away healthcare and reproductive freedom. The treatment for ectopic pregnancy is an abortion. The treatment for septic uterus is abortion. The treatment for a miscarriage that your body won't release is abortion. If you can't get those abortions you die. Abortion is healthcare. Women's bodies are surveillance, criminalized, and punished at their most vulnerable yet men accused of exploiting and abusing children are shielded by wealth, influence and silence. Don't be a system of policing women and protecting predators. If this were about "protecting life" the priorities would protecting the most vulnerable. Our vulnerable includes any women able to get pregnant. Our vulnerable are in rural areas. All genders and areas should be able to utilize telehealth especially in rural areas, for healthcare for treatments.

02-06-2026

Morgan Eyanson Renken

Abortion access is crucial for women, and stripping women from healthcare will never be a good thing.Abortion bans dont protect me, it limits my future and health and the ability to decide what happens to my body. These decisions are between my doctor and I. People who make these laws tell young people like me that my life, safety, and health matter less than your opinions. An obsession with laws like this has always been about female compliance, never about saving lives. Oppose this bill to protect my future and womens healthcare.

02-06-2026

Amy Croll

I am asked about four times per month for a referral for medical services from someone from rural Iowa. The last two were for two individuals in their 80s and the two before that were for a 40 year old and a 16year old. The closest needed service is two hours away. Telehealth is the only reasonable option for each of these scenarios. My 20 year olds are looking for employment in states that respect their medical autonomy and provide them an economic future. Policies such as the ones proposed are exactly why they are leaving. The ripple effect of your decisions will 100% have an economic impact as wellestablished professionals will follow their kids/grandchildren. We all will go where health matters and providers and patients are free to manage their own providerpatient relationships.This legislation needs to be voted down.

02-06-2026

Deborah Stoner

Please vote yes on this bill. The use of abortion to cover up crimes such as human trafficking and rape results in years more of human suffering, as well as the death of an innocent infant. Please save Iowan women from further evil.

02-07-2026

Kathleen Winter [- Select -]

Telehealth is vital to rural Iowa. Patient privacy is a bedrock of healthcare. This bill is one more example of the government sticking it's nose into the private of life of Iowa citizens. We have real problems here in Iowa, the gutting of public education, rural health desserts, skyrocketing cancer rates and poor water quality. Try fixing those things.

02-07-2026

Jill Beebout [Blue Gate Farm]

Please oppose this bill. As a resident of a rural county, access to telehealth is SO critical. Any further limiting of it would create undue hardship for thousands of Iowans.And as for the abortion issue, a woman's body is their own and no one should be empowered or compelled to make legal judgements on her decisions about it.

02-07-2026

Angela Maier

02-07-2026

Jennifer Kirkman

We do not need any additional bills stripping the rights of women to bodily autonomy. The 6 week abortion ban is widely unpopular and legislators knew itthats why it passed in the middle of the night.Iowa ranks 49th in access to OBGYNs nationally. This bill will only keep us there. People do not want to come here or stay here because of these harmful policies perpetuating a dangerous ideology.

02-07-2026

Rochelle Dougall [Family Planning Council of Iowa ]

I strongly oppose this bill. Telehealth is not a luxury in Iowait is a lifeline, especially for rural residents, seniors, and anyone who cannot travel hours to see a provider. Limiting telehealth access will only deepen the healthcare crisis already affecting our rural communities.Healthcare decisions belong between a patient and their doctor, not the government and not outside parties. This bill represents unnecessary government overreach, threatens patient privacy, and undermines the autonomy and dignity of Iowansparticularly women.If lawmakers truly care about the health and safety of our communities, they should be expanding access to care, not creating more barriers. Please vote no and protect telehealth and reproductive healthcare access for all Iowans.

02-07-2026

Anastasia Bender

I oppose this bill for its violation of HIPPA, presenting false information as fact in the case of reversing a chemical abortion, and the continued criminalization of professionals in women's health care. This will exacerbate the current shortage of medical professionals in the state and endanger the health and wellbeing of our citizens. Please vote NO on this bill

02-07-2026

Amber Mahrt

Making it harder for Iowans and particularly, Iowa women to access Healthcare, is counter productive. If making healthcare harder to access and more expensive is the goal, this bill would achieve it. Additionally, stop treating Iowa women like second class citizens who need to be guided. Give Iowa women back whole bodily autonomy in making healthcare decisions.We don't need you telling us what is right to do with our own bodies.Dr Amber Mahrt DNP, MSNED, RN

02-07-2026

Deborah Vaughan

Please oppose SSB 3115. Telehealth is critical to those who sometimes live an hour or more from in person care. A woman's reproductive health is a right she, and she only, has a say in. You may be as personally antiabortion as you wish, but you don't get to take the rights that our motto says we preserve away. What's more personal health information is noneofyour business.

02-07-2026

Jennifer Kelso

VOTE NO on this asinine bill. Iowa has devolved in so many different ways over the last decade. We already can't attract or retain medical professionals because of this exact type of legislation. It is absurd that the party supposedly for "small government" perpetually attempts to control every aspect of citizens' lives, especially women. Maybe try doing something actually worthwhile for change and leave everybody else alone.

02-07-2026

Stacy Volmer

I strongly oppose SSB 3115. This bill imposes unnecessary, invasive mandates on patients and providers, including mandatory exams, excessive reporting, and private lawsuits, without improving safety. It spreads misinformation about chemical abortions, politicizes medicine, and creates barriers that put Iowa womens health, privacy, and access to care at risk. Threats of license discipline and lawsuits will intimidate providers and limit timely care, especially for rural or vulnerable patients. Lawmakers should focus on protecting evidencebased healthcare, not creating obstacles that endanger women. SSB 3115 must be rejected to safeguard safe, confidential reproductive care.

02-07-2026

Sara Powell

Please oppose this bill. If a woman is old enough and responsible enough to go through pregnancy and labor, shes qualified to decide whether she wants to or not. Shes the only one who literally has any skin in the game when it comes to pregnancy, so its ridiculous that anyone who isnt bearing the physical and mental costs of a pregnancy should get to sue the person most directly affected by the pregnancy. Miscarriage is such a sensitive topic that it adds insult to injury to know that the state wants to track it. When I think about whether or not I want to have kids, living in Iowa makes me hesitate to want them. If I do get pregnant, I already plan to get my healthcare outside the state because I dont trust that the doctors here can legally do whats best for me, and thats just sad. And not everyone has the privilege to do that. Also telehealth is one way to bring down healthcare costs. If I have kids, I have to be able to afford their healthcare too. This bill is antifamily.

02-07-2026

Cheryl Jackson

Telehealth is vital! Maternal medicine specialists are 100 miles from where I live already (and thats out of state option even) Pandering to those who have abortion tunnel vision is not good leadership. Womens health choices and sometimes the difficult decisions it entails are for HER to make with her doctor. Not every sexual encounter was voluntary. Not every pregnancy is viable. Not every abortion is a heartless act but every woman is entitled to make her OWN decisions with her OWN doctor. PRIVATELY WITHOUT GOVERNMENT OVER REACH. Is there a data base to monitor and criminally charge men who get venereal diseases from prostitutes or casual sex? Do we monitor unmarried men who seek treatment for erectile dysfunction? Are married men criminally charged for committing adultery? Or fathering a child? Quit legislating things that are based on narrow minded opinions and maybe just maybe address things that improve our states ability to prosper. Vote no we are watching.

02-07-2026

Laura Blaser

I am opposed to this bill. Rural Iowa is enough of a medical desert as it is without this restriction of critical telehealth services.Vote NO and stop meddling with matters that should be strictly between a patient and their health care provider.

02-07-2026

Sara Zejnic

Oppose. Keep your hands off my reproductive rights. The crowd who left a lot of comments about how medical choices should be made between patient and doctor on the bill about removing vaccine requirements in schools are mighty quiet here. Get out of my doctors office and get your hands off my reproductive organs.

02-08-2026

Brittany Quint

Oppose. As an individual with epilepsy I am unable to drive and this bill would make it much harder to seek healthcare without being an undue burden. I live in an area with no public transportation, and we are a single income household because I cannot drive so taking something like an Uber would mean taking money from other things we need.I am not the only Iowan who faces hurdles similar to these. My insurance being private means I pay out of pocket every appointment already.

02-08-2026

Larissa Boeck

Vote NO! We need to be expanding healthcare, not restricting it. This bill would force patients to travel long distancessometimes hundreds of milesto obtain care, creating major barriers for lowincome and handicapped people, rural residents, working parents, and those without reliable transportation. This bill is effectively a nearban on medication abortion which is the SAFEST earlyabortion method! It is not your job as legislators to get between patients and their doctors. Oppose this bill!!!

02-08-2026

Fenek Coney

To support this bill is to support more death in Iowa, and especially the deaths of those capable of pregnancy. In a state that is decimating its options for in person care and social support systems to also further restrict telehealth and reproductive healthcare access is signing death certificates in bulk. If Iowa lawmakers care about life and healthy families then they (you) need to focus on reigning in the corporate entities that poison us while also refusing to pay their fair share in taxes. Instead you focus on stripping rights and killing those who are already here in the name of a potential people that don't yet exist and once fully formed you would leave resourceless.

02-08-2026

Natasha Alton

My husband and I chose to start our family in Iowa because we believed it was an excellent place to raise children. However, I am writing to express my deep concern that SSB 3115 would make living in this state dangerous for Iowa families. I believe this bill introduces several harmful changes that threaten the safety and wellbeing of our community. Restricting access to abortioninducing drugs would make it significantly harder for patients to access medication abortion, which is a critical component of reproductive healthcare. Furthermore, the introduction of stringent reporting requirements for complications appears designed to create an unnecessary compliance burden that may deter healthcare providers from offering essential services. Finally, the proposed alterations to informed consent requirements create medically unnecessary hurdles that undermine the patientprovider relationship.I urge you to consider the negative impact this legislation would have on the families.

02-09-2026

Kathy McLain McLain

We don't need bills like this that are direct attack on a women's right to make her own decisions about her reproductive health. It is no one else's business and the government certainly has no business in someone else's mind and body. Women have fought long an hard to make their own decisions and certainly is true for reproductive freedom. It's easy to sit in a chair somewhere and say this is how it should be, but the real world doesn't work that way. It throws lots or roadblocks and obstacles when it comes to personal health and wellbeing that only the person experiencing can possibly make in their best interests. Work on getting good healthcare for all, food, housing, public education, bridges and transpertation and the hundreds of other things that need to be solved. Keep your personal opinions out of things that aren't your decisions to make. My body, my health, my decisions; not some stranger sitting in a chair a hundred miles away who knows nothing about my situation.Thankyou

02-09-2026

Aileen J Osborn

This is a stupid, unnecessary bill. These things should remain for a woman and her Doctor to deal with. Stop meddling in peoples private life, and work on anything that would actually improve Iowan's lives. Stop this bill.

02-09-2026

Maggie D

This is a dangerous bill for Iowa women. If this were truly about caring for life, we would be focusing on making birth control more accessible, improving sex education, providing free childcare, free healthcare, or at the very least, improving the system we have to make it easier to navigate and more beneficial for those in need. Banning abortion will only cause more problems, more domestic violence, more unwanted children in the system, more death during childbirthnobody wants to have to get an abortion, but sometimes its necessary for a myriad of reasons that are all valid.This bill will only put women and children in danger while ensuring men can have unchecked control over them.

02-09-2026

April Wells

I oppose SSB 3115. Please stay out of womens personal health care and leave us alone! You are using religious reasons to justify oppression of women. We can disagree without controlling lives. Keep this medication available and stop bsing the public with your pseudo science!

02-09-2026

Sarah Khaskel

I am writing to strongly oppose SSB 3115. Restricting access to safe, effective care supported by decades of scientific research does not reflect a commitment to serving the best interests of your constituents. Allowing family members to file lawsuits and state reporting on MAB complications or otherwise is a dangerous overreach into one of the most vulnerable and private moments of an individual's life. In some areas of the state YOU serve, telehealth may be the only way someone can access any form of healthcare. With respect, at what point will physicians be allowed to care for their patients in accordance with their extensive medical training, rather than being required to defer to individuals without any kind of formal medical education? Please vote NO on this bill.

02-09-2026

Maureen White

I oppose this bill and urge you not to advance it. A woman's reproductive health care decisions should be between a doctor and her; not legislators, the governor, or ideologues who are disseminating this type of legislation in our states.Legislators should listen to health care professionals, who under this bill would be forced to disseminate untrue "medical information" about reversing medical abortions. This bill, and previously passed abortion related bills, are contributing to the loss of licensed health care providers who are leaving Iowa, as well as the braindrain of young people who seek options to live in less repressive states than Iowa has become the past 15 years. Many who live in rural Iowa have already shared their concerns about limits on use of telehealth under this bill. Stop wasting time on this bill and get to work addressing real needs in Iowa like clean water, rising cancer rates, funding for public education, affordable health care, living wages, and housing.

02-09-2026

Stacy Wistock

Vote NO on SSB 3115. This bill is government intrusion at its worst. Politicians inserting themselves into private medical decisions they have no business controlling. Iowans deserve better.It pretends to care about informed consent and womens health, but in reality it restricts abortion access through unnecessary rules meant to delay, intimidate, and shame patients. Limiting telehealth and mail delivery of abortion medication cuts off safe, proven options many Iowans, especially rural residents and working families, rely on.The reporting and liability provisions do nothing to improve safety. They exaggerate risk, stigmatize patients, and threaten providers for following accepted medical standards. Mandating medically unsupported claims like abortion reversal isnt education, its political propaganda, and is disgusting and shameful. Anyone who votes yes on this bill is a traitor to their constituents and doesn't deserve to hold public office in the state of Iowa.

02-09-2026

Lisa Erb

I oppose this bill, which obstructs vital access to reproductive healthcare for all women in Iowa, but especially those in rural communities. This is another attempt to discredit proven medical science, restrict the autonomy of women and enshrine religious beliefs within Iowa law.

02-09-2026

Robert Hanisch

I do not support SBB 3115. Helping children is not done through enforcing laws that hurt the mother.There are 120,000 hungry children in Iowa per recent statistics. Go feed those children who are suffering, instead of forcing mothers to add to that statistic.

02-09-2026

Eric Saylor

This is an intrusive, misogyinistic, and unnecessary bill that will hurt rural Iowa especially hardalready being hit hard by Republican policies that have led to the closing of hospitals and departure of physicians from this state, particularly OB/GYN practitionersand seeks to complicate and even criminalize necessary medical care. I strongly urge its defeat.

02-09-2026

Dale Cavin

Please do not pass this bill. Leave patient care to the individual and their physician. I do not see the benefit of another law as this. Roe vs Wade is overturned. We already have laws that regulate this issue. If the lawmakers of Iowa think thus issue is important, then where are the laws that provide financial support for these women and children? Can we provide comprehensive legislation?

02-09-2026

Ashley Waltersdorf

I strongly oppose this bill. There is no safe or proven way to reverse an abortion. Medical experts have concerns about the safety and efficacy of this "reversal treatment", noting it is not FDAapproved. Also, by requiring these medications only be dispensed at inperson doctor visits, you're hurting those in rural and underserved areas who may have to travel longdistances for care. Please don't make it even harder for women to receive care and for medical professionals to do their jobs in the state of Iowa.

02-09-2026

Jessica Schreyer

Why is it that we keep getting bills in Iowa policing women's reproductive rights and no bills policing mens rights? Don't you dare later ponder why Iowa's economy is terrible and why young professionals don't want to come to Iowa. Don't ask why doctors won't practice in Iowa, and we are unable to provide care because of these restrictions. It is what you are doing right here. You are killing the economy, and our future, by focusing on these restrictive bills rather than on focusing on what makes Iowa amazing. Do better.

02-09-2026

Sarah Chang

As a mother of two girls, I inplore you to OPPOSE SSB 3115. The newly popularized tagline about abortion abolition is a poetically clever but incredibly backwards metaphor. A potential being cannot be "enslaved". A much more accurate comparison to modern slavery is the forced motherhood this bill would enforce. VOTE NO!

02-09-2026

Madeline Westendorp

As a medical student in Iowa, I am already quite wary of the state of reproductive healthcare. The inundation of bills like this constantly adding barriers to normal healthcare is so detrimental to Iowans and a disservice to our patients. Healthcare providers are leaving the state in droves because they are not able to ethically practice medicine without the constant politicization of medicine based on no evidence. Patients will receive poorer care with this bill. Iowans deserve to understand their healthcare options without state actors trying to persuade them one way or putting unneeded barriers in their place. Patients know their own bodies, situations, and desires. They deserve the respect to be able to access care. My medical school classmates do not want to practice in Iowa because of bills like these. We have some of the POOREST HEALTH IN THE COUNTRY. If we are looking to improve the health of Iowans, restricting healthcare access at every corner is not the way to do it.