Iowa justices: State can block federal funds for Planned Parenthood

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Planned Parenthood has provided sex education to students in dozens of schools and community-based organizations in Iowa since 2005.
50% : "The programming that this law interferes with is crucial to protecting the Iowa teens who rely on Planned Parenthood to provide sex education and teen pregnancy prevention programming in our state," Rita Bettis Austen, legal director for the ACLU of Iowa, said in a statement.
50% : "We believe that the District Court correctly determined that the law violated the constitutional requirement of equal protection by targeting Planned Parenthood to block it from receiving grants to provide this important programming."
48% : House File 766, passed by the 2019 Republican-controlled Legislature, excluded any Iowa organization that provides or promotes abortion from two federal grants -- the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) and the Community Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (CAPP), which aim to reduce pregnancy among teenagers.
46% : The Iowa Supreme Court has upheld a 2019 law that blocks federal funds from Planned Parenthood to provide young Iowans with sex education curriculum, overturning a district court decision that ruled that law unconstitutional.
46% : With a 6-1 vote from the Supreme Court ruling in favor of the state, the justices decided the law preventing Planned Parenthood of the Heartland from receiving two federal grants allocated to support sex education and related services to youths does not violate the provider's equal protection rights.
46% : The ruling comes among a series of legal cases between Planned Parenthood and Reynolds and other abortion opponents in state government.
41% : "Today's ruling was a strong statement in support of the idea that taxpayer dollars should not fund abortion," Gov. Kim Reynolds said in a statement.
35% : Planned Parenthood and ACLU of Iowa challenged the 2019 law in Polk County District Court, where Fifth Judicial District Judge Paul Scott ruled that the law violated Planned Parenthood's right to equal protection "and is therefore unconstitutional.

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