Meeting Public Comments

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Comments Submitted:

02-11-2026

Lisa Lima

A woman and her doctor should be free from prosecution. The woman's decision is hers to make. Safely, she needs to see the doctor, who is acting in her best interest. We should be allowed these freedoms without the government interfering.

02-12-2026

Amanda Weber

Abortion is health care, and decisions about it need to be between a woman and their doctor. Some women could die without access to it. People that are already alive should not be sacrificed for people that are not alive. Please focus on what you can do for children that are already alive, like their education, clean water and air, daycare, health care, etc.Our liberties we prize. Our rights we will maintain.

02-12-2026

Anna Wu

Abortion is healthcare. While laws can restrict legal access to abortions, it cannot eliminate abortion rights without detrimentally affecting womens healthcare. A doctor who provides health services should not be penalized for protective the health of a woman and her ability to provide for her family.Do not criminalize abortion care.

02-12-2026

Chad Goings

I am 54 year old lifelong Iowan. I thought as a child I wanted to get out of Iowa asap and then in college decided I was too in love with the Grant Wood landscapes to go anywhere. I have a 23 year old daughter who lives in Iowa. I would love for her to be able to stay in Iowa. As we have seen, young people are leaving Iowa in droves. This bill will only perpetuate that. Young girls and women should not have the government involved in their reproductive health decisions. This is governmentment overreach at its finest. My adult daughter has rights to her own life and freedom of choice for her own body. Period! If a medical decision were ever to come about involving my daughter and my potential grandchild, I would want all options open as every birth situation is unique. The last people I want involved in my daughter's health decisions is anyone who works in the state government. We live in a time of great medical advancements, this bill is throwing us back to the Dark Ages.

02-12-2026

Jennifer Kirkman

Strongly oppose. Womens rights to bodily autonomy and their own healthcare should not be up for debate. Criminalising medical professionals for performing health care is ridiculous and will only drive professionals out of our state and make it impossible to recruit more. This explains why Iowa is ranked 50th nationally for access to OBGYNs.

02-12-2026

Maggie O

As a woman I cannot stay silent while bills like this are rushed through. This is dangerous, this is reckless, and this is not what the people want. I am quite frankly tired of leaving public comments, making calls, and sending messages, trying figure out a way to word the peoples concerns in a manner that might inspire a change of heart in the ones who hold the powerjust know that the people are angry but more importantly, the people arent stupid. We see exactly what youre doing and were not letting any of this happen without a fight.

02-12-2026

Josephine O'Donnell

Decisions about one's health and the care that's best for them should remain between an individual and their medical provider. But it's apparent the gynoticians in the Iowa Legislature want to get up into Iowans' most personal and intimate business and why? It's certainly not because they CARE about the children they are so desperate to proclaim people with the full rights of citizens at the zygote stage. Otherwise they'd fund programs for childcare, early childhood education, affordable healthcare and food support. It's clearly about punishing and oppressing women. It always has been. OPPOSE this bill and let Iowans get on with living their lives.

02-12-2026

Darin Person

Opposed. Criminalizing abortion is a direct attack on women's rights to make their own health care decisions with the guidance of the physician of their choosing. Threatening health care providers with legal consequences for providing legitimate medical care will contribute even more to the already significant lack of OBGYNs in the state. This is a perfect example of the type of proposal that is driving the brain drain phenomenon in Iowa. We need to be attracting medical professionals, not driving them away with threats.

02-12-2026

Sandy Bild

I OPPOSE HF 2332!!You are giving more rights to a fetus than you are giving women. You are essentially stripping women of the right to birth control.What if a woman has a miscarriage is she going to have to prove it was an act of nature, or is she going to be charged with murder?DO NOT PASS THIS BILL!!

02-12-2026

Larissa Boeck

OPPOSED. Lifelong Iowan checking in to say, like most Iowans, I want abortion rights expanded, not removed. This bill is not ethical, constitutional, or medically sound. It would take all bodily autonomy away from pregnant people. Doctors will flee the state to go live and practice medicine in states that haven't made it criminal to do so which will further restrict medical access for all Iowans. Seeing as the majority of Iowans support abortion access, why don't you represent the actual people of Iowa for once instead of the Heritage Foundation, and kill this bill? This bill never should have been introduced in the first place. VOTE NO!

02-12-2026

Beth Koch

VOTE NO! This bill invades health privacy. It criminalizes providers. It says a zygote or fetus has more rights than its mother. When the other bills and laws youre promoting dont protect it after its born, who will be responsible for it? The government has no business getting all up into a womans personal choice. I thought thats what Republicans believed inless legislation. VOTE NO!

02-12-2026

Sarah Kolb

I oppose this bill! 1) womens healthcare shouldnt change from state to state. If mens healthcare remains the same, so should a womans. 2) prochoice is just that, a choice and prolife bills take our choices away. 3) prolife isnt profamily. How many husbands, children, parents, siblings, and friends have lost a woman due to prolife policies? Do our earth side families mean nothing compared to a fetus? Do we women mean nothing compared to a fetus? 4) politicians need to stay out of healthcare. Youre killing women. Youre destroying families. So unless youre my doctor, stay out of my personal business, my medical autonomy. Shame! Shame on all of you forcing us to give birth against our wills. Were dying. Were dying and our politicians are the ones killing us.

02-12-2026

Alissa Swartz

I work for a large national health system. I literally spend my day talking to nurses and have for almost 20 years. The number who have already left the field because of how our health system is broken is painful. Good caring humans who only wanted to be there for their patients. Now you want to add road blocks and fear? Please LISTEN to the clinicians about womens healthcare and how abortion is not as black and white an issue as politics makes it. I am 100% against this!

02-12-2026

Jody Zimple

Government should not have any rights pertaining to my body pregnant or not. What youre doing is wrong its inhumane. Basically youre telling a woman if she gets raped she is stuck with that baby whether she wants it or not youre telling a woman that is carrying a child that will not survive due to circumstances beyond her control or the doctors control that shell have to carry that baby. Would you do this to your own mother?

02-12-2026

Julie Offerman

Oppose this bill! A physician should not have to fear being prosecuted for providing healthcare to a woman. The Government needs to stay out of womens healthcare. This will also be another detriment to our shortage of doctors, specifically OB/GYNs. This must be voted down!

02-12-2026

Ryan Maher

Last year, I got dragged out of the Senate gallery and arrested for asking who the GOP would target next. The bill I opposed last year didnt affect me, this one doesnt either. But that is irrelevant. What a woman does if shes pregnant is nobodys business but hers. These harmful bills must be opposed by any means necessary. My comment is not for the legislators who will be voting on this bill, as I dont debate those that John Brown wouldnt. If you are someone who will be targeted by this harmful legislation, as someone who could be forced to carry a pregnancy against their will or a healthcare provider staring down the barrel of a potential life sentence, my recommendation is to get a gun and learn how to use it. That goes for anyone else in the crosshairs of this Republican legislature. I mean, they made it so freaking easy to get.

02-12-2026

Jayne Hansen

Abortion is healthcare that is life saving in many cases and life changing and others. It is not a procedure that any person takes lightly. It is a medical procedure and therefore it should be regulated only by a pregnant person and their doctor. Reproductive healthcare should not be politicized. It is not criminal, it is medical. The life of a pregnant person should not be policed, judged, or mandated by legislators who have no medical knowledge.

02-12-2026

Casey Reints

I am opposed to this bill which would criminalize healthcare providers for providing the lifesaving care that they are trained to provide. This does nothing to address our OBGYN shortage and nothing to improve the health of Iowans. It will contribute to an ever growing healthcare shortage.

02-12-2026

Diane Jones

Women will die if this egregious bill is passed. That includes prolife women as Iowa expands their ob/gyn healthcare deserts.How do the nonphysicians intend to have nonviable or ectopic pregnancies treated? Or do they just view it as the loss of an incubator? SAFE ABORTION IS HEALTHCARE! VOTE NO!!

02-12-2026

Edith waldstein

I am opposed to this bill. It denies critical healthcare access to women and puts their lives at mental and physical danger. In addition, we will be able to attract even fewer ob/gyn doctors to our state, and we will be even less attractive to young families to move here.

02-12-2026

Ann Tigges

Oppose this bill!This bill puts womens lives at risk. Countless examples of women losing their lives or becoming infertile due to losing access to life saving medical procedures such as abortion have occurred in states with restrictions like these. Its already difficult to access OBGYN services in Iowa, passing this bill will make it so much worse. Please oppose this bill.

02-12-2026

Kathy Krug

This bill will take Iowa way back in time and needs to be stopped immediately. The statement that pregnancy begins at conception is the opinion of certain particular religions and no law based on this opinion should go forward as this is NOT the opinion of most people. Any decision on pregnancy should be between the woman and her doctor. This bill if passed, will encourage even more young people to leave Iowa and create more shortages of OBGYN's in the state. Iowa already has a shortage of doctors, leaving women having trouble to get appointments especially in rural Iowa. This bill is a violation of women's rights and will lead to more doctors leaving the state at a time when even Congress is trying to create incentives for doctors to stay. So why have a bill that does just the opposite of that. Abortion is healthcare and many factors play into that decision. Please kill this bill as this is NOT what the majority of people want.

02-12-2026

Mary Jones

Birth control, abortion and women's healthcare should be between a woman and her physicians. Each decision about pregnancy and fertility is a personal one and the state and federal government has no right interfering. In addition, religious groups have no right forcing legislation that violates another person's religious beliefs.

02-12-2026

Charles Wood

No lawmakers without medical training and knowledge should make legislations regarding any womens health. Every woman should have the right to her own body and the right to choose whatever is in her best interest and her wishes.

02-12-2026

Patty Zahm

I oppose the bill for many reasons. The issue of highest concern with this bill is the unknown consequences of forcing a woman and her pcp/doctor to carry out the pregnancy. The "right to life" does not take into account circumstances that another human could possibly know. The only human who can know their capacity for going through the nine month pregnancy is the human. Please try to imagine some instances in which a person who celebrates being pregnant and giving birth whose life is endangered, ability is altered....whatever. There isn't always a safety net or a guarantee. This decision should not be made by others.

02-12-2026

H. Foster

The 6 week ban on abortion is already too restrictive, interfering with the doctorpatient joint decision making. I oppose HF 2332 and request all lawmakers to vote against this bill. Politicians have no business playing doctor. Criminalizing a medical procedure is not how we grow trust with Iowans or grow our state. Miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies can be lethal without FAST and immediate action to preserve fertility and prevent maternal death. Furthermore this medical intervention should NOT be based on a states boundary. Women in Iowa already have less rights than in neighboring states. The argument of prolife ceases to be valid when proponents restricting abortion access are curiously the same lawmakers who restrict funding to economically vulnerable Iowans needing food and childcare assistance.

02-12-2026

Mackenzie Rice

You do realize that if you want women to have more babies, you should make it actually safe to do so!! The language in this is ridiculously vague and doesnt even give clear information on what would happen if a pregnant woman is miscarrying and has to abort the fetus to save her own life. If you pass this, there will be blood on your hands.

02-12-2026

Jill Heeren

The movement to criminalize abortion in Iowa is not about protecting life it is about controlling it.When lawmakers threaten doctors with prison and women with prosecution, they are not creating a culture of care. They are creating a climate of fear. Fear in exam rooms. Fear in emergency rooms. Fear in the hearts of people facing some of the most complex, painful decisions of their lives.Pregnancy is not abstract. It is physical, emotional, and sometimes dangerous. Complications happen. Fatal fetal diagnoses happen. Miscarriages happen. When abortion is criminalized, doctors hesitate. Hospitals consult lawyers instead of acting quickly. And patients suffer sometimes irreversibly.Criminalization does not eliminate abortion. It only eliminates safe abortion.History shows this clearly. Where abortion is banned, it does not disappear; it goes underground. Those with money travel. Those without resources risk their health.

02-12-2026

Nancy Gardner

Please do not outlaw abortion. Abortion is never a black and white situation. There are too many unpredictable things that can happen, such as occasions when the fetus cannot be saved and the mother's life becomes endangered. A woman's doctor should be her healthcare adviser, not a state law.

02-12-2026

Teresa Wellman

Unequivocally OPPOSED. This bill is another Heritage Foundation pipe dream. It is NOT the will of the majority of our citizens. I read where this legislature is desperately trying to thread the needle to allow for abortion care when medically required. Women have lives, families. Zygotes and fetuses ARE NOT CHILDREN no matter how many times you try to make it so. A living person has full agency over their own body and cannot be forced/coerced into giving up a part of that body for another, even for a part of a year, as pregnancies fundamentally change womens bodies forever. And so the bill purposely calls for no charges to the pregnant person, but effectively murder charges for anyone that helps or facilitates that desired termination. This is appalling and effectively takes away womens ability to access the reproductive care they want and need. There is nothing conditional about a womans 14th amendment rights to privacy. A zygote/fetus is not a living, breathing child. A huge NO.

02-12-2026

Maria Taylor

I am writing to oppose HF 2332, the proposed total abortion ban.Abortion in Iowa is already banned after six weeks before many people even know they are pregnant. A total ban would eliminate nearly all remaining access to reproductive healthcare in our state, regardless of personal medical circumstances or safety concerns.Healthcare decisions are deeply personal and should be made between a patient and their provider, not politicians. This bill would put women at risk, create fear for families, and place medical professionals in impossible situations.Iowa families deserve policies that respect individual freedom, protect access to medical care, and trust people to make decisions about their own bodies.I urge you to reject HF 2332.

02-13-2026

Deidre Wahlin

I vehemently oppose this bill!! This is a war on women and healthcare providers. Abortion is healthcare!!! These archaic bills and laws are already having a devastating effect on the doctor/patient relationship and on the ability of women to get the healthcare they need. Sometimes with deadly results. In addition, criminalizing doctors doing their moral and ethical jobs will further gut the number of OBGYN physicians who are willing to work in this state!! It's already a crisis and your ridiculous actions are uncalled for and devastating. For the lives of the woman in your lives, VOTE NO

02-13-2026

Christina Buell

Abortion is healthcare. Women have body autonomy, same as men. Doctors do not support this proposed bill. Iowans do not support this bill. Keep lawmakers out of out doctor's office and out of womens bodies. The only ones making healthcare decisions should be the woman and her doctors. This proposed bill will hurt and kill Iowan women. Vote No.

02-13-2026

Amy Wilder

Please oppose HF 2332. Iowa already has difficulty attracting and retaining qualified medical professionals. Maternal healthcare sometimes involves procedures like abortion. Bills like these are ridiculous and endanger the lives of women, and all other people as well, since ultimately, ob/gyns will not want to come to IA to be trained or to stay to practice. There is also a correlation with lack of abortion access to infant mortality. Laws like this bill are also connected to negative health outcomes for mothers of color. https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/twonewstudiesprovidebroadestevidencetodateofunequalimpactsofabortionbansAll of these things are connected. Stop the culture war insanity and let people make their own medical decisions with their doctors in private.

02-13-2026

Alyssa Gifford

First of all, an embryo is not a person any more than a sperm cell is a person. Secondly, the government has no place making decisions about women's bodies and families. These are personal, private health matters between women, their families and their doctors. It is absolutely absurd that they are trying to take away these basic rights for women. Look at the state of childcare in Iowa! You want for force women to have babies and provide zero resources for them to care for those children. The absolute audacity of this is beyond words.

02-13-2026

David Sands MD

Politicians don't belong in my office, my clinic or my hospital. Medical decisions are between a doctor and their patients. Doctors practice under social and medical standards. They shouldn't have to practice under legislated standards.

02-13-2026

Julia Stephenson

Since none of you are OBGYNs or maternal fetal medicine specialties you do not have the knowledge to push for this. There are too many complexities and this absolutely should be a no vote. No woman should have to fear for her life or put the life of a fetus over her own. This bill will cause complexities in navigation for medical treatment as has already been proven in other states. Vote NO

02-13-2026

Cynthia Hinton

This bill puts women's lives at risk. As a young woman, I suffered a miscarriage. The doctor performed a D&C to ensure that my reproductive health did not suffer. This procedure is considered an abortion even though I did not have a viable fetus. This is not an unusual instance. My mother and sister also miscarried. If not for our doctors being unafraid to give us important health saving treatment, I may not have even been born, let alone have two healthy children. Please let doctors give their patients life saving and reproductive health saving treatments without worry of repercussions!Please vote no to HF2332.

02-13-2026

Brigitte Mohler

Oppose this ultra restrictive bill and stop harming women. This decision is between a woman and her doctor. This bill is antilife. If we do not value the life of a woman, her health, and her choices we are definitely not prolife.

02-13-2026

Luke Conner

I'd tell the subcommittee to oppose this, but you've already made up your minds. Iowans WILL remember how you vote on this on this bill. You've already motivated me with your actions this session to support opposing candidates in any way I can.It's tragic that the Iowa legislature has let a minority ideology trump science and good sense.I'm a father with 2 daughters and am recommending that they both move elsewhere when they graduate high school. Why settle down in a state that's SO unfriendly to women's health choices that it could jeopardize their lives?

02-13-2026

Vicki Woolley

NO on this bill. Iowa is daily taking us backward in time. Forcing women to give birth is not good healthcare. Pregnancy and giving birth are not always simple situations. You profess that a fetus is precious in the womb, yet you take away healthcare, food, shelter and education after birth. The hypocrisy is stunning.

02-13-2026

Brenda Barton

The Legislature needs to quit practicing medicine without a license. I worked as a labor and delivery nurse for 25 years. Abortion is sometimes necessary medical care, abortion, d&c, managing miscarriages,are best left to physicians and their patients with no fear of repercussions from our Christian Taliban legislature.

02-13-2026

lacy blakeman

Please oppose this bill. Abortions are a part of Healthcare. These decisions need to made between women and their physicians. Every women should have the rights over her own body. Government shouldn't have a place or a say in what people do with their bodies, or in decisions about Healthcare. If you don't want a stranger making Healthcare decisions for you don't make them for others. Oppose this bill.

02-14-2026

Fenek Coney

Oppose this bill. To ban abortion is a death sentence to too many lives for the sake of potential cell clusters. When abortions are not available mor pregnant people die. For all the socalled worry about women's safety, let's talk about women are at higher risk of being killed by their abusive partners when pregnant, especially if that abuser is worried about money or infidelities being caught. Let's talk about how pregnancy and birth can be permanently traumatic to the body, and how the worsening access to healthcare means more pregnancies will go under observed, even if high risk. To pass this bill is to say the lives capable of pregnancy are worth less than potential lives that aren't being offered any assurance of care in this world. Having a uterus should not be a death sentence.

02-14-2026

Josh Helmick

I oppose HF 2332 because it overreaches into the private medical decisions of Iowans and creates a dangerous legal environment for healthcare providers. By reclassifying feticide as a Class A felony and restricting elective procedures, this bill threatens the safety of pregnant individuals and will inevitably lead to a "chilling effect" where doctors fear providing lifesaving care.As a resident of Ames, I believe our community is stronger when families have autonomy over their health and futures. This bill lacks the nuance required for complex medical realities and prioritizes ideology over the wellbeing of Iowas citizens. I urge the subcommittee to vote "No" on HF 2332 and protect the fundamental rights and health of all Iowans.

02-14-2026

Zachariah Grissom

Oppose. Abortion is healthcare. There are any number of reasons someone may need to end a pregnancy, you blanket mandating that there isn't a reason is short sighted. Every administrative hurdle you impart makes those exceptions you claim to allow that much harder to access.

02-14-2026

Emily Fleming

Vote AGAINST HF2332. This legislation would do irreparable harm to women and families in Iowa. Doctors will be afraid to care for patients. OBGYNs will not want to practice in our state, which is already experiencing a maternal care crisis.

02-14-2026

Mark Woolley

I am opposed to this bill and ask you to vote NO.The national and state Republicans are doing all they can to weaken Iowa and make it a place people do not want to move to and encourages people here to move away. In this case, the RighttoBirth Party (they do not support life after birth with all of their terrible policies) is telling young women and their partners, not to mention their physicians, that Iowa is not a safe place to live. If they want to control their health, they should move to another state.

02-14-2026

Linda Schreiber

I respectfully urge you to oppose HF 2332 relating to elective abortion and feticide. This proposal represents a sweeping expansion of criminal penalties and state power into deeply personal medical decisions. It redefines elective abortion in broad terms, criminalizes those who perform or assist in such care, and dramatically increases penalties under Iowas feticide statute including making certain actions punishable by life imprisonment without parole. These are among the most severe penalties available under Iowa law. HF 2332 removes longstanding consent protections in the feticide statute after the second trimester and creates new felony and misdemeanor penalties tied to other offenses if an unborn child is harmed. Although the bill states that pregnant women cannot be prosecuted, it exposes physicians and other licensed professionals to criminal liability and disciplinary action for providing care that may already be legally complex and medically urgent.

02-15-2026

Daniel Currier

I feel as a man since women abortions to stay legal then men should be legally able to opt out of their roll if they choose to. If a women wants to keep the baby the man should be able to say no and walk away. If that can't happen then abortions should be illegal if both party's don't agree to it.

02-15-2026

Grace Ridnour-Nollsch

I strongly oppose this bill. Abortion is healthcare and many women do not make the decision to abort lightly. If this bill passes, then as soon as a woman is pregnant, she better receive child tax breaks considering the law now sees her clump of cells (which she may not even be aware of yet) as a full child. This will also drive even more doctors out of Iowa as it should not be on their shoulders to think about legality when doing their best to help a patient.

02-15-2026

Mariah Buckner

Oppose this bill. I fully support a persons right to choose how to handle their pregnancy in consultation with their medical provider. Because this bill would severely criminalize those who would provide health care, we will have even fewer OB/GYNs than we already have. We will not be able to train new OBs if they cant get the experience here. The braindrain will only increase as young women flee a state that would deny them lifesaving care should they need it.

02-15-2026

Michael F

I strongly support HF 2332 and urge the committee to advance it. If we truly believe that every human being is created equal and endowed with the unalienable right to life, then our laws must reflect that conviction. To claim we are prolife while declining to provide equal protection under the law is not true justice. This bill affirms that life begins at conception and extends legal protection to the most vulnerable members of our society the unborn. A just and moral state defends those who cannot defend themselves. HF 2332 is a necessary step toward ensuring that Iowas laws uphold the inherent dignity and worth of every human life at every stage.

02-15-2026

Rachel O

Vote NO! This decision is between a woman and her physician, not random politicians that think they should be able to dictate what happens to a woman's body and the potential fertilized egg (i.e. NOT a baby at that point!) within her, no matter the circumstance!

02-15-2026

Tina Thomssen

Please oppose HF 2332! I read other comments, and like what Chad Goings said. The decision of abortion should be left to the pregnant woman. There's already SO many children in fostercare without homes. Put your efforts towards helping them instead of hurting them. If this passes, say goodbye to doctors, families, and women in Iowa. Don't we want Iowa's population to grow? This is NOT how we make that happen. Like Chad's daughter, I'm also a young woman. I would like to stay in Iowa. Things like this make it hard to want to. Our healthcare needs to improve, not go backwards!

02-15-2026

Martha Brandes

I strongly oppose HF 2332. This bill criminalises medical care and interferes with deeply personal healthcare decisions that should remain between a patient and their doctor. Expanding criminal penalties around abortion and redefining feticide in this way creates fear, legal uncertainty, and real harm for patients and healthcare providers.Legislation should not substitute ideology for clinical judgement or threaten prison sentences over complex medical decisions. HF 2332 undermines patient autonomy, access to healthcare, and basic human rights. I urge you to vote no.

02-15-2026

Charis Edwards

I strongly OPPOSE this bill for the following reasons:1. I oppose the intrustion of the government into private health care decisions. 2. I believe that this bill will lead to fewer OB/GYNs staying in Iowa to practice medicine, further weakening Iowa's maternity and prenatal care, which already rank incredibly low in the US. As a future physician, Iowa's ongoing efforts to criminalize abortion care make me MUCH less likely to stay and practice in the state. 3. I believe this bill will lead to suffering, injury, and death for some, and posisbly many pregnant Iowans and that is in fundamental oppoosition to my values as a human and as a future physician.

02-15-2026

Demonica Thomas

Oppose this bill. There are a million reasons to be against this bill. The main reasons regarding health and safety. Banning abortions doesn't make them go away it makes them go underground. Let's remember that before abortion rights women were using unsafe and unregulated means to terminate their pregnancies many of which resulted in their deaths. Keep your politics and religious beliefs out of Healthcare and maintain the right for individual choice.

02-15-2026

Brandie Huisman

I do not agree with this bill. I'm a sovereign human being that happens to be a woman. My body is mine to decide what happens to it. The soul enters the body at birth. We are eternal beings. We DO NOT DIE! WE HAVE ALL BEEN LIED TO for the purpose of control. Women are not your property. We are not your baby making machines! Don't you dare come after our rights. Abortion has it's place as a life saving medical treatment. The mother's life of important TOO. This just shows you don't think women are even human. Let me guess you're gonna try to take away our right to vote next. Then crap I guess at that point we're all just sex slaves and you're no better than all the people in the Epstein files. Disgusting.

02-15-2026

Zakary Herink

These abortion bills are not and have never been about protecting the lives of children. They are about controlling women and keeping people in poverty. If you really cared about our lives you would work on our super high cancer rates most likely due to pollution from farming. Or disbanding the lawless thugs of ICE who roam wherever they please abducting and murdering American citizens with inpunity.

02-15-2026

J Adcock

We are already struggling to keep ObGyns in the state because of the current abortion policies. Deepening the ban will make that problem worse and lead to worse outcomes for mothers and babies. Study after study shows the only true way to reduce the number of abortions is to address the reasons women get abortions, not to make them illegal.This bill is not only pointless but will cause the deaths of women and babies.

02-15-2026

Alisha Williams

We already have the worst ratio of women's healthcare professionals to patients, which creates worse outcomes for women and babies. Not to mention every being deserves bodily autonomy, it is a human right. Oppose this murderous bill, or the blood will continue to flow over your guilty hands from preventable deaths of Iowa's most vulnerable women. For shame on this craven legislature. Our children will remember your deeds.

02-15-2026

Emma Phelps

I am a medical student at the University of Iowa going into family medicine. Laws like this make me very hesitant to stay to practice in Iowa. Like many family docs in Iowa, I plan to include obstetrics in my practice. This law would seriously limit my ability to provide highquality obstetrical care to my patients. This will adversely affect maternal outcomes in Iowa and will mean that Iowa will struggle even more to recruit physicians. Please oppose this bill.

02-15-2026

John Fiedler

This shouldn't even be a considerable subject. There are so many reasons why an abortion could be necessary, and life saving. Stop pretending to care about children while actively trying to remove children's benefits/ services. (Bookmobile is the most recent to come to mind)

02-15-2026

Anna Frank

STOP legislating our bodies! What happened to smaller government?? This isnt the Iowa I grew up in, please stop it with these absolutely heinous bills. Youre only going to keep driving more and more young people out of the state. PLEASE trash this bill, or vote NO!!!

02-15-2026

Amy Bonnett

Please oppose.This isn't political. Everyone wants to reduce the number of abortions that is a universal goal. How can we reduce abortions? Provide free (i.e., taxpayer funded,) accessible, and effective birth controlProvide free, accessible, and accurate sexual educationImprove adoption and foster care systems so that they will be feasible alternatives to abortionEnsure social and financial support for mothers and childrenThese methods have been proven to work. Taking away birth control benefits will lead to more abortions. Banning abortions outright will not end abortions, it will increase unsafe abortions and the death of women who, with birth control, education, and feasible options to raise a child, might never have to consider such an action.We all have the same goal, so let's work together to reach it.

02-15-2026

Sydney Devine

Abortion is healthcare. I want people to be protected in making the best healthcare decisions for their personal situation. I want people to have privacy and care in making medical care decisions. This bill would cause harm to women, healthcare providers and others. Please vote against.

02-15-2026

Hannah McMains

Strongly opposed. Abortion is a medical decision, not a political decision. The government should play no role in the decisions made between a woman and her doctor. The fact that this is still up for debate is outrageous.

02-15-2026

Sam Schroeder

I vehemently oppose this bill. Abortion is healthcare and women and their doctors should not be persecuted. This is extremism at it's finest. Government officials should be ashamed of themselves for voting yes on this horrendous bill. VOTE NO.

02-15-2026

Hope Carlson-Talbot

Please do not move this bill forward. As a woman in Iowa hoping to start a family, this bill terrifies me. What if my life was at risk and I had to have an abortion? Even if you claim that would be an exemption, a doctor may still delay life saving treatment out of fear of criminal prosecution. Many young Iowans are choosing to move out of this state and start their families elsewhere. I love this state and want to be here, but this bill would make me reconsider. Please, please vote no. Even if we dont agree on a womans right to choose, I know republicans want more people to have children. This bill would prevent that for many.

02-15-2026

Kristen Corey [Individual ]

The government should stay out of women's healthcare plant and simple. What happened to don't tread on me? This is treading, completely. Many of us have had D & C's, most often because we were having miscarriages and our bodies wouldn't dispel the tissue and we would have become septic and died ourselves. Regulators who don't fully understand women's healthcare have no right to dictate medical care. Leave that to the medical professionals.

02-15-2026

SHAYLA STRAIGHT

Many women will die if this law is passed. Abortion care is health care. Some women need DNC's and other procedures to save their life. Those procedures fall under Abortion. Many women want to go on to have a healthy pregnancy. Many women are already mothers and need to live to care for their other children. These life changing decisions should be left to the women and her healthcare team. Not the government. Please vote against this bill!

02-15-2026

Jill Zimmerman

Making decisions about a person's healthcare that is necessary is not a choice that should be made by people not directly involved. The choice needs to be made by the patient and healthcare provider. Get your facts straight and stop listening to under qualified people's opinions about healthcare. Vote no!!!!

02-15-2026

Jonathan Barrett

Strongly oppose. Leave healthcare decisions to the medical professionals and their patients. Penalizing people going through one of the most painful times of their lives is truly barbaric. Party of small government indeed. This bill is about controlling women and inching us ever closer to a theocratic state rather than a democracy. Shame on every Republican standing by as they forsake their neighbors in the name of power.

02-15-2026

Andre Gardner

Banning abortion removes a choice. Having that choice on the table does not mean that everyone is going to elect that choice. Only those to whom it would benefit. It's a question of one being able to make one's own decisions regarding healthcare. The state's reason for being is to look after it's people and protect them. Banning a medical procedure that is there to help those that elect it, runs contrary to this. Women deserve to have the state leave them free to make their lives as they see fit, especially when it comes to their own body. What happened to everyone minding their own damn business? What happens between a woman and her doctor is absolutely nobody else's prerogative.

02-15-2026

Kacie Schumann

Oppose this bill. The government has no reason to be involved in a womans healthcare procedures, they should be between her and her doctor only. This bill will only make doctors hesitant to provide abortion care when it is necessary to save the life of the woman, which will result in women going without care and potentially dying. This has already happened in southern states who have passed total abortion bans or stricter abortion laws. Please dont be the reason more women die.

02-15-2026

Jane Robinette

People will die because of this draconian lawnot only people who are pregnant and need abortion care, but also all Iowans who rely on the accessibility of medical care. Many OBGYNs, ER docs and other medical staff are not going to want to practice in Iowa if they will be faced with the choice of risking lifetime imprisonment or providing lifesaving abortions. We already have a doctor shortage in Iowa. This will make that problem even worse, especially in rural areas of Iowa. States who already have this type of ban have seen their maternal mortality rise. Horrible stories have emerged of people who have had to flee to another state to get emergency care. Here, while the pregnant person is exempted from prosecution, it appears that friends, parents, spouses, siblings, or anyone else trying to help ("abet") the person they love could be subject to long prison sentences. None of this is okay and it isn't "prolife." Please use your common sense and stop this bill.

02-15-2026

Matilda Hogan

Abortion is a human right and medical necessity. A woman should not fear jail time for pregnancies that would result in injury or death to her, especially in cases where the fetus would not make it or have diminished quality of life. A person should be able to make informed decisions about their lives and bodies without governmental control.

02-15-2026

Michael England

For a party that claims small government, I feel there are an awfully large amount of big government decisions being made as of late. As a person who works in Healthcare, the government has no right getting involved. Please focus on improving the country and not what a woman does with her body.

02-15-2026

Cole Easton

The party that constantly talks about small government continues to prove it only believes in freedom when it is convenient. This bill is an extreme overreach that threatens life in prison for private medical decisions. That is not freedom. That is government control at its most invasive level.Iowa has real problems: workforce shortages, declining population, and struggling communities. Yet lawmakers are focused on criminalizing healthcare instead of fixing the issues driving people away. This is exactly why there is a massive brain drain in Iowa. Educated professionals, healthcare providers, and young people do not want to live in a state where politicians think they know better than doctors.Politicians are not doctors. They have no place inserting themselves into private medical decisions.I strongly oppose HF 2332.

02-15-2026

JUSTIN WHITTY

For the last 25 years, Republicans have controlled much of Iowas House, the governors office for 16 of those years, and a full oneparty trifecta for 8 years and counting. After so much legislative success, choosing to criminalize health care instead of solving real problems shows HF2332 is a GOP loyalty test and a wedge in the publicturning private medical decisions into political weapons so neighbors fight each other while leaders dodge responsibility for hospital closures, school underfunding, and low wages. It lets them keep running on PROBLEMS, not SOLUTIONS. It protects moneyed corporate and ag interests by burning citizen energy on punishing doctors brave enough to practice here instead of confronting the crisis of democracy around us. Threatening lifewithoutparole for providing care is not leadershipits an abuse of power. Please vote NO on HF2332.

02-15-2026

Brooklynn Woods-Parkhill

Oppose this bill. Abortion is healthcare and it should not be criminalized. Women should not have to live in fear and a fetus should not have more rights than a woman. This is heartbreaking and im so disappointed in Iowa's law makers.

02-15-2026

Conner J

Gross over reach of the legislative process. Theres no ethical or moral argument to be made that justifies this. "But my religious beliefs" You might say. Thats just it, YOUR religious beliefs are not mine. You are the captain of no ship but your own.

02-15-2026

Megan Secor

This is no business of legislators. This is a medical practice like a vasectomy, but I dont see any legislation preventing those. Not to mention this is against the constitution of Iowa. Stick to the things we pay you to do allocate our taxes properly for services that help Iowans. Quit wasting time and tax payer dollars coming up with problems and DO YOUR JOBS.

02-15-2026

Anita Christensen [None]

Please oppose HF2332.I oppose this bill because it restricts womens access to essential healthcare and places their lives at risk. While I understand the desire to protect the unborn, I believe a womans life and wellbeing must carry equal weight. This legislation would create an environment where medical professionalsespecially ob/gyn physiciansmay feel unable to provide necessary care without fear of criminal consequences. That is not good for patients, for providers, or for the future of healthcare in our state.I have eight young women in my life whom I care about deeply, and I worry for their health and safety if this bill moves forward. Although I would never choose abortion for myself and have taught my children that it is not a choice they need to make, I cannot in good conscience take that right away from othersespecially when their health or lives may depend on it.

02-15-2026

Cynthia Calamanco

I am absolutely opposed to passing this law. Abortion is healthcare and passing this law will remove that. Every woman has a right to do what they want with their body and passing this law will remove that right. A law shouldnt govern and decide what people get to do with their own body. Especially in these circumstances. In some cases aborting the unborn fetus is critical to saving the womans life due to complications that pregnancy and childbirth may cause. Not only that but in other cases the woman is most likely aborting the fetus because she doesnt have the funds or resources to raise a child. That fetus will be brought into the world and kept by the mother living in dire circumstances that no child should live in. But that child could also be given up for adoption and brought into foster care where they will be neglected and abused with the thousands of other kids in the system as well. In the end passing this law will do more harm than good.

02-15-2026

Meghen Ponder

Criminalizing abortion is government overreach at its worst. Pregnancy decisions should stay between individuals and their doctors, full stop. I do not want the state of Iowa policing my uterus and telling me what I can and can't do with my body as a woman. This bill will only create more fear, further delay care, and hurt real Iowa families.

02-15-2026

Jillian A

Vote NO on HF2332. This bill would significantly increase risks to women's health. Mothers living in states with total abortion bans are twice as likely to die during pregnancy, childbirth, or soon after giving birth compared to women who live in states where abortions are legal and accessible. In the year after the state of Texas implemented their abortion ban, their maternal mortality rate went up 56%. Combined with the continuing deterioration of our medical care systems across this state, especially in rural areas, passing this bill would be a death sentence for many Iowa women.

02-15-2026

Stacy Volmer

I strongly oppose House File 2332. This bill is an extreme and dangerous government overreach that criminalizes abortion at conception and escalates penalties up to life without parole. It threatens doctors with prosecution, invites fear and confusion in medical emergencies, and prioritizes political ideology over evidencebased care. By redefining feticide and removing key elements of consent and trimester limits, it opens the door to sweeping criminal liability with devastating consequences for providers and families.This legislation will not make Iowa safer. It will drive physicians out of our state, delay critical care, and endanger women facing pregnancy complications. Decisions about pregnancy belong to patients and their doctorsnot politicians. Iowa families deserve compassionate, medically sound policy, not punitive laws that strip away autonomy and put lives at risk. Reject HF 2332.

02-15-2026

William Cross

House File 2332 is a dangerous and extreme bill that Iowa should reject.This bill expands criminal law into private medical decisions and uses fear and punishment to enforce ideology. By redefining abortion and expanding feticide laws, HF2332 exposes doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and support networks to serious felony charges. When medical professionals fear prosecution, care is delayed or denied, even in emergencies.Although the bill claims pregnant people would not be prosecuted, it simply shifts liability onto everyone else involved. Pregnancy is unpredictable. Miscarriages and complications are common. HF2332 blurs the line between medical outcomes and criminal acts, inviting investigations during moments of loss.Iowa already struggles with access to maternity care. This bill will drive providers away and reduce services while offering no support for families or healthcare. HF2332 relies on punishment, not solutions, and should be rejected.

02-15-2026

Maiti Peters

I am a medical student at the University of Iowa, and I urge you to vote no on H.F. 2332.Bills like this make it increasingly undesirable for medical students and residents to stay and practice in the state where we are trained. Iowa is already facing a significant physician shortage, and we have one of the lowest OBGYNtopatient ratios in the nation. Further criminalizing aspects of reproductive care and increasing felony penalties for physicians will only exacerbate workforce shortages and make recruitment and retention even more difficult.As trainees, we are choosing where to build our careers. Many of us want to stay in Iowa to serve our communities, especially in rural and underserved areas. However, legislation that introduces severe criminal liability into complex medical decisionmaking creates uncertainty, fear, and professional risk that pushes future physicians to practice elsewhere.Iowa cannot afford to lose more physicians. Please vote no on H.F. 2332.

02-15-2026

Maria Taylor

I strongly oppose HF 2332 and any effort to enact a total abortion ban in Iowa.Reproductive health care decisions are deeply personal and complex. They should remain between patients, their families, and their medical providers not politicians. A total abortion ban would strip Iowans of bodily autonomy, interfere with medical care, and put womens health and safety at risk.Iowa families deserve the freedom to make private medical decisions without government intrusion. This bill would move our state backward and create fear and uncertainty for patients and providers alike.I urge you to reject HF 2332 and protect the reproductive rights and health care access of Iowans.

02-15-2026

Karen Maass

I strongly oppose the bill. Iowa ranks 44th in the nation for physicians per capita. And it lost 31 Obstetric units from 1999 to 2023, making areas of the state OB deserts. I talked with a number of people in my county and also in the NW in regards to abortions (Pocahontas county) and 8090% of the people were against the government both state and federal meddling in Iowans healthcare. These were rural and urban Iowans. The most common comment was "it isn't any of their business" I also did not have one physician support antiabortion legislation & they do not welcome increased malpractice insurance rates or going to jail for saving a womans life. No physician is ever sure as to when a woman is at deaths door so how can a lawyer or state determine this? It is better to have a live mother there for her children than a dead one. If this legislature took better care of its residents especially children & families we would not be having this conversation. Our state has lost alot of ground.

02-15-2026

Karen Maass

02-15-2026

Martha Wolf

Iowa ranks lasts in the nation for the number of OBGYNs per capita, with the lowest providertopopulation ratio among all US states. 66 of Iowa's 99 counties lack access to OBGYN services. Do you know if your district is one of those counties? Have you ask those women in your district how they feel about this bill. Perhaps they would prefer to discuss their health with their doctor, without you in the room legislating the conversation. The severe shortage is attributed to high liability costs,and restrictive reproductive care laws(not to mention possible death of woman or the medical doctor charged with murder). That statistic means over 60% of Iowans live in counties considered maternity care deserts, leading to increased maternal and infant health and death risks. Here is a novel idea: Let's legislate Viagra, Vasectomies, and just men's health care in general. Let's concentrate on bigger issues such as all the Iowans getting cancer, and drinking contaminated water.

02-15-2026

Jennifer Bertrand

What happened to religious freedom? There are religions that require abortion in certain circumstances which this bill would prohibit. If you don't want an abortion, don't have one. Stop making health care decisions political.

02-15-2026

Elysiana Harken-Kalinay

As a state, we do not have nearly the support systems in place that would allow for something like this to be safe for Iowans. Never mind the right to choose what happens with your body, we have a government okay with cutting off free lunch programs and taking money away from public schools. I wholeheartedly oppose this bill and Im disappointed in my state government for continuing to bring this issue to the forefront when they dont seem to care about our children at all.

02-16-2026

Jungle Cat

I dont understand why we always choose to go backwards. Theres no reason for us to take away anyones rights. Anyone who votes to pass should be held responsible and accountable for everything that has to do with the forcing a woman to go through the pregnancy. Meaning paying for all the medical bills and taking care of the children forced to be birthed.

02-16-2026

Samuel Wright

Women currently make up around 50% of Iowas population. Nearly every single woman I have spoken to in this state believes abortion should be accessible, as it is entirely their decision and should be considered a healthcare procedure. Trampling on the rights of nearly half your states population will not end well. Sending these women to prison for choosing what to do with their bodies is egregious. If you really cared about children, as this guise claims, you would focus on more pressing issues (such as raising minimum wage and NOT protecting pedophiles) to make sure these children live good lives. It entirely seems as if you only care about these childrens lives until they are born. If a mother or a family cannot afford to have a child, what are the consequences there? There are a plethora of reasons a woman could want or need an abortion, none of which are your concern. Stop treading on womens bodies, you bootlickers. Your fhrer molested children. Good day! :)

02-16-2026

MARK FULLER

Heres a concise version of your letter that keeps your main arguments and emotional tone while staying under 1,000 characters: *** Dear Representative, I respectfully urge you to oppose HF 2332. While I understand the intent to protect life, this bill endangers pregnant women by criminalizing medical judgment and restricting emergency care. States with similar laws have seen delays in treating miscarriages, sepsis, and ectopic pregnanciesleading to lifethreatening harm. HF 2332 would expose Iowa physicians to Class A felonies for providing standard care, forcing them to choose between a patients life and prison. Major medical groups warn such laws increase maternal deaths and drive doctors away. Iowa families deserve care guided by medical expertise, not fear of prosecution. Please vote **NO** on HF2332.

02-16-2026

Louisa Bockstedt II

OPPOSEDI am writing respectfully urge you to oppose HF 2332. While I understand the desire to protect life, this bill creates severe and welldocumented risks to pregnant women by criminalizing medical judgment and restricting care in emergencies. States that have enacted similar laws have already shown us the consequences, and Iowa should not repeat their mistakes.Across the country, strict abortion bans have led to delays in treating miscarriages, sepsis, ectopic pregnancies, and other lifethreatening complications. In Texas, for example, multiple women have filed lawsuits after being denied care until they were at risk of organ failure. In Tennessee, physicians reported being forced to wait until a patient was "crashing" before intervening because the laws criminal penalties created fear and confusion. These are not hypotheticalsthey are documented outcomes reported by major medical associations and covered extensively by national news outlets.

02-16-2026

Louisa Bockstedt

Vote OPPOSED! I am writing to respectfully urge you to oppose HF 2332. While I understand the desire to protect life, this bill creates severe and welldocumented risks to pregnant women by criminalizing medical judgment and restricting care in emergencies. States that have enacted similar laws have already shown us the consequences, and Iowa should not repeat their mistakes.Across the country, strict abortion bans have led to delays in treating miscarriages, sepsis, ectopic pregnancies, and other lifethreatening complications. In Texas, for example, multiple women have filed lawsuits after being denied care until they were at risk of organ failure. In Tennessee, physicians reported being forced to wait until a patient was "crashing" before intervening because the laws criminal penalties created fear and confusion. These are not hypotheticalsthey are documented outcomes reported by major medical associations and covered extensively by national news outlets...

02-16-2026

Juliana Rissler

Strongly oppose HF2332. Making abortion illegal increases maternal death rates. It forces physicians to make decisions based on legal liability, not based on best care for their patients. This bill is disgusting overreach and will kill women. We have seen maternal death rates increase after similar bans in other states, like Texas. Ignoring facts does not make them go away. This bill will *kill women*

02-16-2026

Derik Spoon

This bill is an affront to the freedom of body autonomy. What a person decides for their health care treatment is between them and their doctor. This bill removes any chance at womens health anonymity. You hypocrites that preach small government And then make a bill like this are deplorable.

02-16-2026

Sarah Boblenz

Please vote NO on HF 2316. Women deserve autonomy to make their own healthcare decisions. The government and private organizations used to write draft legislation need to stay out of this lane. Most Iowans are against this. Represent your constituents and vote NO.

02-16-2026

LUCITA CORRIGAN

Women health care does not belong in politics and if its a crime to have an abortion its a crime for a male to get a women pregnant when that is not what she wanted. I pray that God will never let some women who pregnancy has gone wrong the baby slowly dying inside her but no health care provider will help her because the baby still has a heart beat and now its making the mother slowly die a painful death because of your laws.

02-16-2026

Elana Shinkle

PLEASE Oppose this bill. Abortion care is healthcare and it should not be criminalized. The penalties are ridiculously harsh. Im afraid we will lose even more caregivers and healthcare providers in this state. Women should not have to live in fear and a fetus should not have more rights than a woman. This is heartbreaking and Im astounded by Iowa's lawmakers.

02-16-2026

Alicia Ward

This bill is absolutely abhorrent and should be rejected. Further criminalizing aspects of reproductive healthcare will only make this states brain drain problem and womens healthcare deserts worse. There are also already documented instances in other states where women have been left to suffer until they are close to dying because doctors are afraid to give them a medically necessary abortion. Forcing parents who have a much wanted pregnancy to give birth to a child with a known fatal genetic defect or victims of rape to have the child of their rapist are also things that this bill would force. This bill is also at odds with the fact that at least 1020% of pregnancies naturally end in a miscarriage. It isnt the place of this legislature to force decisions on private aspects of healthcare, and this state already continues to fail the children who live here. Anyone who supports this bill should be ashamed.

02-16-2026

Elizabeth Estling

This is a dangerous bill. Women have already been dying in states with bans like this republican woman have said that they are not getting life saving care they needed in states with bans like this. This is not going to help anyone. Let doctors do their jobs and keep religion out of the situation.

02-16-2026

Barb Wheelock

I am urging you to vote no on HF 2332.. Criminalization of womens reproductive health care risks womens lives and willworsen the shortage of ObGyn doctors and expand health care deserts. An individuals health care choices should be between them and their doctors, andindividualized to meet their specific needs.

02-16-2026

Christian Dau

OPPOSE THIS BILL. You wouldnt ask an electrician to manage a country, just like how you dont ask a governor to fix the wiring in your house. So why the hell are we asking politicians to decide what procedures were allowed to have? Keep your religious beliefs out of my body.

02-16-2026

Diane Duncan-Goldsmith [none]

HF 2332 does the following:Criminalize womens reproductive health care, risk womens lives while potentially worsening Iowas shortage of OB/Gyn doctors along with expanding Iowas many health care deserts.64% of Iowans overwhelming support a womans access to safe and legal abortion. A womans individual health care choices and decisions should be between the woman and her doctors and then individualized to meet her specific needs. Legislators should not be legislating a womens medial care.. Women know becoming pregnant comes with many health risks. Therefore, when a woman decides to have a baby this is a decision she has not taken lightly. Women need to be supported during pregnancy and not worry about legislation which can negatively impact their reproductive care.Do not support HF 2332.

02-16-2026

Arawn Hodgkins

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Arawn Hodgkins

02-16-2026

Kamryn Baughman

This bill is abhorrent and would be unimaginably terrible for the women of the state of Iowa. Abortion is health care and women will die if they are unable to receive it. Children will lose their mothers and mothers will lose their daughters. This cannot be passed here if you wish for our state to retain any guise of freedom. When you remove womens freedoms, you announce to the world that freedom, to you, is conditional. That freedom is easier said than done. And that you are too weak to uphold it. Womens freedoms, and womens rights, are more important to protect than ever. Do your job. Protect your constituents.

02-16-2026

Annette Busbee

Vote NO on this bill. This is a medical procedure that might be necessary to save a woman's life and should be made only by her, her spouse and her physician. NOT the Iowa legislature. If this bill passes, you'll chase out OBGYN practitioners and young people wanting to start families.

02-16-2026

E Tonarelli

I am writing as a constituent to urge you to oppose HF 2332. This bill creates severe and welldocumented risks to pregnant women by criminalizing medical judgment and restricting care in emergencies. States that have enacted similar laws have already shown us the consequences, and Iowa should not repeat their mistakes.Across the country, strict abortion bans have led to delays in treating miscarriages, sepsis, ectopic pregnancies, and other lifethreatening complications. Laws like the one being proposed create fear and confusion in treatment options, resulting in subpar healthcare, which is already diminished by the state of health care today driven by greed and lack of compassion by all involved. Iowa also ranks last in the U.S. for the number of OBGYNs per capita, as of 2025. This law will ensure the continuation of this shortage. Ensuring ALL women will get lower quality of care, if any at all, regardless if they wish to exercise freedom of control over their bodies.

02-16-2026

Sharon Falduto

Oppose this bill. It is a gross overreach and it will endanger women. You may be pattig yourselves on the back and saying you're "saving babies" but you are killing women. Women who might already be mothers.Stop making Iowa look so ignorant and regressive. I would love it if my daughters decided to live here, but not at the risk of their own lives should they ever become pregnant.

02-16-2026

Anna Harris

I implore you to NOT pass this bill under any circumstances. It is a violation of womens rights and dangerous to the person carrying a fetus. This will not stop abortions, it will instead stop safe ones. Women will die. Please do not pass this.

02-16-2026

Anna Colgan

02-16-2026

Anna Harris

This bill is a huge overreach of power. Not only will this bill not stop abortion, womens lives will be LOST. If they dont have access to safe abortions, they will find potentially unsafe ways. Huge infringement on womens rights. Stop worrying about womens bodies and do your jobs.

02-16-2026

Anthony Tonarelli

02-16-2026

Nicole Hoag

This is a huge legislative overreach and will have detrimental impacts on womens healthcare in the state. This is yet another issue that will have young people fleeing the state in droves and it will most certainly deter physicians from wanting to come and practice in Iowa. Vote no on this bill!

02-16-2026

Shelley Jilek

This bill will cause severe consequences for women seeking healthcare while pregnant. Youre not saving a life when the mother is at risk in addition to the fetus who likely not viable either. This war on womens health must end. Controlling women is not going to make the country safe for anyone. We will remember who voted against our best interests.

02-16-2026

Norma Ewinger

Oppose this bill. Abortion is healthcare and is very important to women who deserve the right to make their own decisions about their body and their life. The medical professionals who assist her with her abortion should not be prosecuted in any way, shape or form. The decision to have an abortion should be left to the woman, her doctor and her God. That's HER God, not anyone else's religious beliefs or opinion. Passing this bill would be a huge overreach of the state, in my opinion. It's also the opinion of the majority of Americans including those who reside in Iowa.

02-16-2026

Thomas O'Donnell

I'm writing to urge you to turn back HF2332.Not long ago I met a woman from Mt. Pleasant who said she had "one child on Earth." She meant that she had one living child and two who she lost while pregnant, who lived in Heaven. She is clearly a deeply religious person. She is staunchly prolife. Yet, she opposes laws that would criminalize all abortions because of her experience. She knows there are families who must make difficult decisions every day about their reproductive health, as she and her husband did. She does not want to make those decisions for those families and she doesn't want government to make them, either. She told me she fears for the loss of adequate prenatal care as obstetricians flee the state's regulations. She has a thoughtful, nuanced view of pregnancy, childbirth and abortion nuances that this bill lacks.This is an extreme and unnecessary measure. It will do nothing except generate lawyers' fees. Please do not advance it from subcommittee.Tom O'Donne

02-16-2026

Hannah Doerge [N/A]

I oppose this bill. We have some of the highest cancer rates in the country, and instead of addressing that this bill seeks to penalize women's health care. This is an absolutely disgusting piece of legislation that will, if passed, kill even more Iowans.

02-16-2026

Lisa Martincik

OPPOSED. Abortion is healthcare, and a matter of autonomy. Abortion is not an issue to legislate and not something to decide for other people. No legitimate research, studies, experience, or expertise support abortion bans. When the only argument for forcing someone to give birth is religious ideology, you are erasing the separation of church and state. Banning abortion is cruel, unsafe, detrimental to people who wish to become pregnant in future, diminishing of constituent rights, and unjustifiable. It is manifestly dishonest. This bill is illegitimate and should be treated as such.

02-16-2026

Monica Hamilton

I encourage all subcommittee members to vote no on this bill. Other states have pushed these types of bills through and it is killing women. Its not a hypothetical question of whether or not this will harm women, it is documented in other states such as Texas and Kentucky. If you care about Iowans, and you care about the life of women, there is no other moral vote, than no. If you are unaware of the consequences of criminalizing abortions, then you need to research before voting. You vote yes, you vote to harm women and also very likely make it where many will lose ovaries or fallopian tubes so they cannot grow their families in the future. People are not having abortions after 15 weeks unless there is a medical reason to do so. If you believe otherwise, then you have been mislead by the media and need to read actual studies and statistics.

02-16-2026

Debra Walz

Abortion should be legal. Women should have the right to choose. Ia is losing Healthcare providers due to abortion bans. Providers do not want to come to Iowa where they are not free to practice medicine without legislative restrictions

02-16-2026

Karissa Shaffer

I strongly OPPOSE HF 2332 and any effort to enact any kind of abortion ban in Iowa. Reproductive health care decisions are deeply personal and complex. Politicians need to keep their nose and religious beliefs out of medical decisions that should be made between a woman and her healthcare providers. We are already losing doctors in the state of Iowa because of these types of bills, & will continue to lose more. People do not want to live in the state of Iowa anymore because of the consistent legislative overreach made by the Iowa GOP. Please remember that you work for the people of Iowa, and the majority wants you to stay out of the business of womans healthcare decisions! There are so many other important things to focus on in Iowa right now, and this is NOT it.

02-16-2026

Cami C

I oppose HF 2332 because medical decisions belong between a patient and their doctor, not politicians. By criminalizing healthcare providers and creating a total ban, this bill will drive medical professionals out of Iowa and worsen our existing healthcare deserts. Please vote against this harmful legislation and respect the autonomy of Iowan women.

02-16-2026

Robyn Bles

Vote No on HF 2332 This bill will hurt Iowans. This is a gross overstep of governmental powers into personal decisions that need to be made between a person and their healthcare provider. By restricting healthcare you are not only hurting Iowans from full access to healthcare, you are asking medical practitioners to not best serve their patients. Trust your constituents to make the best decisions for their own lives.

02-16-2026

DAVI *MONDT LOWMAN

A Woman's body belongs to her. No one in public office has the right to tell her what she can and cannot do with HER BODY.Keep your overthetop religious crap to yourself.YOU WILL BE VOTED OUT OF OFFICE OVER THIS AND THE OTHER RIDICULOUS BILLS THAT DO NOTHING TO MAKE LIFE BETTER FOR IOWANS.MIND YOUR OWN DAMN BUSINESS!

02-16-2026

Kathryn Runde

I oppose this bill for so many reasons. As a woman who has had several miscarriages and received appropriate medical care for them from physicians, it is alarming that a woman experiencing the same devastating situation might end up being turned away to suffer or put her own life in danger because a doctor is afraid of going to jail for providing basic medical care. Abortions are DNCs, DNCs happen when you miscarry, period. Women I know in rural communities cannot get basic obstetric care ALREADY because of shortages, and if you create a culture of fear and punishment for ObGYNs doing their jobs, they will leave in alarming numbers. My husband works in the emergency department, and often sees pregnant women in emergent situations, miscarrying or facing ectopic pregnancies. these women need their lives saved. They need doctors to be able to do their jobs. They don't need the government lurking around ready to send doctors to jail.

02-16-2026

Emily Campion

Under no circumstances should this bill pass. What a clear overreach that strips women of autonomy and makes Iowa look hostile and backward. If you truly care about children, prioritize the safety and wellbeing of the kids already living in Iowa by adequately funding public education and providing them drinking water that is safe to consume.

02-16-2026

Marissa Leissler

Do not support this bill. Abortion care is healthcare. We need access for necessary interventions, especially to save the life of a mother and a pregnant person shouldnt fear being penalized because they needed healthcare to live. Oppose this bill.

02-16-2026

Samantha Schrader

I oppose this bill! Stop punishing women who are trying to have families or already have them! Stop criminalizing women who dont want to have families and never receive a proper sex education, because you ban that too and now give wrong information about it!

02-16-2026

Wendy Phillips

I strongly OPPOSE this draconian bill that will put womens lives at risk and their doctors in jeopardy of life imprisonment. The decision to have an abortion is not one made lightly and it should be left to the individual to make that decision, based on her own personal circumstances. It should not be the prerogative of elected officials to dictate what their constituents can and cannot do with their own bodies. If an individual can be trusted to decide to end medical treatment for serious illness, they can be trusted to make decisions for their own bodily health and autonomy. For a political party that espouses less government, this outrageous intrusion into the personal lives of Iowa citizens is unconscionable.

02-16-2026

Matthew McNeill

As an actively voting member of the community, I urge you to oppose HF 2332 for many reasons. 1) Medically necessary abortion has saved women's lives. This legislation will drive childbaring age women out of Iowa to find medical systems that support life saving care in the event of a medical emergency resulting from pregnancy. The life of a mother has clearly higher value than that of a lethal pregnancy. 2) It will drive out ObGyn doctors from Iowa because they will fear being accused of causing an abortion in Iowa. 3) Family planning activities, such as abortion, have increased the economic output of the workforce by enabling women to participate more fully. Additionally, women are less likely to leave the work force unexpectedly due to an unplanned pregnancy, leading to higher work force participation and family financial stability.

02-16-2026

AJ Kremkoski

I oppose this bill, in no way, shape, and/or form a fetus that cannot live on its own without a host should have more rights than a women who can live on their own. Adding on to that women should not have to live in fear.

02-16-2026

Jeanene Gilmore

The state does not belong in my personal life or any care related to my body. Any women choosing to have an abortion is entitled to make her own choice. She doesn't need the state bureaucracy imposing their beliefs on her body or choices.

02-16-2026

Jay Nelson

I abhor abortion and believe that any person seeking one should be sterilized at the same time to prevent the genetics that allow for infanticide from further infecting the human race.... BUT... I also think that as bad as abortion is, government control over our bodies and/or medical decisions is even worse.I whole heartedly oppose this bill.

02-16-2026

Michael Sydnor [Retired]

The Government should not be dictating medical care, interfering with the conversations between a doctor and his or her patient, or prohibiting abortion. If you support life, then you should make sure that women have the food and nutrients to sustain themselves and their children. The legislature should concern itself with maternal health, protecting children from communicable diseases. Prohibiting abortions while eliminating vaccines is going to increase the death rate of children. Stop playing games with the health and lives of our women and children.

02-16-2026

AMANDA C

This bill has no business existing. It violates basic protected statuses specifically, it establishes biased enforcement, with the bias based on biological sex.On a practical basis, this bill endangers living humans and their wellbeing. Denying healthcare, namely pregnancy termination, has caused sterility, health crises, and death. This bill will harm and kill Iowans.The faction pushing antiabortion legislation does not seem to consider the death toll brought about by denying necessary healthcare. Apparently they consider those Iowans disposable. But when one factors in the teachings of the holy texts of the JudeoChristian faiths abortion is not outlawed. It's not only permissable, it's prescribed by priests in specific circumstances. Numbers 5:1828.Do not pass this bill.

02-16-2026

Dee Sanders

If McClintock and Gerhold could read, they would understand that being in their area, I heavily opposed this. Unfortunately, they do not tend to listen to people or pass along those messages so Im putting it here. Abortion is healthcare and you are barking up the wrong tree trying to control women.

02-16-2026

Erin Dougherty

I am commenting in full dissent of this proposed legislation. This is a dangerous bill for women and families. Women will go without or be denied care if they or their physician were threatened with charges should something wrong happen in their pregnancy. In addition, OB/GYN physician recruitment and retention in Iowa will suffer greatly if this bill were to pass, only worsening womens health care access and outcomes for the long term across the state. This bill does not support clinical evidence of womens health nor does it support health experts and providers. The only thing it does is exert control over womens healthcare decisions in a dangerous and extreme manner.

02-16-2026

Kendra Schaaf

Women must retain control over their own bodies. We must trust women to do what is best for themselves and their families. Government needs to back the fuck off and ask itself if it would ever censor mens bodies (it wouldnt).

02-16-2026

Lindsay Leahy

Oppose this bill. Medical decisions of this kind should be left up to the individual and their medical provider. Government involvement in limiting choices related to healthcare or criminalizing medical care is out of line. We already struggle to find good womens health providers and this will make it even harder. Please do not force women to suffer in this way.

02-16-2026

Lisa Barnett

OPPOSE. Reproductive healthcare should be between a woman and her doctor. This bill would put more women in danger and deter more doctors from practicing in Iowa. Remember when Republicans used to be for smaller government? Apparently, it's so small now it can fit in vaginas.

02-16-2026

Ashley Asberry

DO NOT PASS THIS BILL. The majority of Iowans understand how dangerous and complicated pregnancy is and the access to necessary healthcare is vital to life, health and freedom. There is no science that can unequivocally show when life begins, there isnt a religious consensus (not that religion should dictate laws) of when life begins, and we know, without a shadow of a doubt, when access to abortion becomes illegal, more women die. Abortion numbers dont decline but infant and maternal mortality do rise. Making abortion illegal is one of the least pro life things you can dostatistically. You work for US. You work for Iowans. And you KNOW the majority of us believe the government should not be a part of these medical decisions. Its too nuanced. Its too personal. Its too dangerous. Vote the peoples willwe are saying NO. If Iowans dont want abortion, dint have one. Forcing their choice on others is a huge violation of human rights

02-16-2026

Ashley Asberry

02-16-2026

David Anderson

If you want people to stay in the state and have more children, you need to make sure that reproductive healthcare is available and safe. This bill will have the opposite effect. Why would I risk getting someone I love pregnant in a state where, if anything funny happens with the pregnancy, it could turn into a death sentence. No on HF 2332.

02-16-2026

Erica Reimers

VOTE NO for HF2332. For so many reasons. Protect life by protecting women in danger in various medical situations. Government should NOT be involved in making medical decisions. OB/Gyn physicians are leaving in record numbers for fear of practicing basic medical care. It breaks my heart and both men and women support the

02-17-2026

Samantha Solimeo

This bill will contribute to the death of pregnant people. We need access to this medical care and these decisions should be a private matter between pregnant people and their healthcare team. This bill should not be approved. Please oppose

02-17-2026

Donna Byers

Sounds simple, right? But it's not as it will also prevent women from getting care after miscarriages as health providers will fear being accused of aiding an abortion. This state already can't recruit OB/GYN health providers. Yet another attack on women by the GOP.

02-17-2026

Charity Heide

Oppose this bill! We have seen how this has impacted the health and wellbeing of women already in places like Texas. Trust women and their doctors to make decisions about their own bodies that are best for them. Passing this bill puts the lives of women in our state at risk.

02-17-2026

Anthony Spoerl

Strongly opposed this bill. First this is outside the jurisdiction of our government. Also, women's health has been an afterthought of medicine for far too long, and this would only exacerbate the problem. Any move that would make women or doctors hesitate on a critical decision in their life out of fear of retribution by the government is untenable.

02-17-2026

Sheila Rogeness

I am writing as a constituent to respectfully urge you to oppose HF 2332. While I understand the desire to protect life, this bill creates severe and welldocumented risks to pregnant women by criminalizing medical judgment and restricting care in emergencies. States that have enacted similar laws have already shown us the consequences, and Iowa should not repeat their mistakes.Across the country, strict abortion bans have led to delays in treating miscarriages, sepsis, ectopic pregnancies, and other lifethreatening complications. In Texas, for example, multiple women have filed lawsuits after being denied care until they were at risk of organ failure. In Tennessee, physicians reported being forced to wait until a patient was "crashing" before intervening because the laws criminal penalties created fear and confusion. These are not hypotheticalsthey are documented outcomes reported by major medical associations and covered extensively by national news outlets. OPPOSE THIS BILL