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A divided Iowa Supreme Court ruled 4-3 Friday to remove an injunction blocking enforcement of Iowa's "fetal heartbeat" abortion law, and to remove legal barriers for future abortion restrictions.
What you should know about Iowa's new 6-week abortion bill. The law does allow for abortions to be performed in cases of rape, incest and if the fetus has an abnormality that is "incompatible with ...
What did the Iowa Supreme Court decide on the six-week abortion ban, and what does it mean? Here's what you need to know about the Iowa Supreme Court's ruling on 6-week abortion ban Skip to main ...
The state legislature was one of ten states nationwide that tried to unsuccessfully pass an early abortion ban in 2018. Only Iowa successfully passed such a bill, but it was struck down by the courts. [13] The legislature had successfully passed a law moving the state's abortion ban to 6 weeks sometime between 2018 and 2019.
The Iowa Board of Medicine has approved administrative rules to enact the state's 6-week abortion ban — should the courts allow the law to go into effect.
The Iowa ban was passed in July 2023 during a special legislative session called solely to pass abortion restrictions, after the state Supreme Court declined to lift a block on a similar 2018 bill.
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.
But in 2023, the court deadlocked 3-3 on whether to revive the state's so-called six-week "fetal heartbeat" abortion ban, passed by the Legislature in 2018 but blocked by a Polk County judge from ...