(Radio Iowa) – A report shows a 38 percent drop in the number of abortions in Iowa after the state law banning most abortions after the sixth week of a pregnancy took effect in late July. The Guttmacher Institute, which supports abortion, estimates about 260 abortions were performed in Iowa in August — down from an average of about 400 abortions a month during the first half of this year. Those stats include procedures performed in a clinic as well as medication abortions.

According to Planned Parenthood of North Central States, many of those abortions in August were likely “telehealth” abortions that involved a clinician in another state prescribing the medication to an Iowan seeking an abortion.