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While the legal landscape around abortion in Michigan was unclear in the wake of the Dobbs decision due to various conflicting pre-Roe laws that were still on the books, in November 2022, Michigan voters passed a state constitutional amendment that explicitly added the right to abortion and contraception to the Michigan state constitution. [112]
Political movements soon coalesced around the legalization of abortion and liberalization of existing laws. By the first half of the 20th century, many countries had begun to liberalize abortion laws, at least when performed to protect the woman's life and in some cases on the woman's request.
The Iowa Supreme Court announced Thursday it will rule Friday on a 2023 law that would ban most abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy. It is the latest in a long chain of legal disputes over ...
The US Supreme Court's decision in 1973's Roe v. Wade ruling meant the state could no longer regulate abortion in the first trimester. [12]On May 15, 2018, eleven days after Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed SF 359 into law, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, Inc., Jill Meadows, M.D., and Emma Goldman Clinic (petitioners) filed a lawsuit seeking declaratory and injunctive relief in state ...
Iowa Supreme Court justice David May listens during oral arguments for the lawsuit challenging Iowa's 2023 law banning most abortions at 6 weeks at the Iowa Supreme Court on Thursday, April 11 ...
That means that so long as the state can articulate a rational basis for a restriction, such as the government's interest in preserving life, the law is constitutional. Iowa's Supreme Court in ...
Friday's ruling on whether Iowa's 6-week abortion ban can go into effect follows a 3-3 deadlock in 2023. Iowa now allows abortion at up to 20 weeks. ... abortions in Iowa. At issue is a 2023 law ...
It comes after the court in 2022 held that abortion rights are not entitled to the highest level of constitutional protection, and a 2023 case in which the court split 3-3 on what the correct ...