Mawa Iqbal
Statehouse Reporter | WBEZMawa is a statehouse reporter, covering the Illinois legislature for WBEZ and Illinois Public Radio. Before coming to Springfield, Mawa worked as a general assignment reporter at WYSO, the NPR-affiliate station for Southwest Ohio. There, she covered policing and local government. Mawa earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri. In her free time, she is either learning how to play guitar or watching bad reality TV shows.
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Illinois became the first state in the country to abolish cash bail on Monday, but the courts remained slow in the Metro East. -
Among the 102 counties in Illinois, 42 have crisis pregnancy centers but no in-person abortion providers.
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Catholic doulas navigate between religious belief and their commitment to maternal reproductive health, including abortion care.
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A year after Roe v. Wade fell, Illinois Democrat and GOP lawmakers fight for legislation.
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Representatives were racing to beat a Friday deadline to get bills out of the chamber, with about two months left in the spring legislative session.
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The challenges keep coming in reaction to a new state law that gun owners say violates their Second Amendment rights.
