![]() That is what I am doing today."ACLU of Iowa's legal director, Rita Bettis, lauded the judge's decision putting the law on hold."Women in Iowa don't have to live with the burden of that uncertainty of knowing whether or not they'll have abortion rights come July 1," Bettis said, according to Sostaric."In terms of next steps," Bettis added in a statement to NPR, "the attorneys defending this ban will have to file an answer to our petition, which is their opportunity to respond to our allegations." Copyright 2018 NPR. The law provides some exceptions - as in cases of rape or incest, fetal abnormalities or to save the mother's life.When she signed the bill, Reynolds issued a statement that reads in part, "I believe that all innocent life is precious and sacred, and as governor, I pledged to do everything in my power to protect it. Kim Reynolds signed the legislation into law in early May, banning abortions once a fetal heartbeat has been detected. Judge declares Iowa fetal heartbeat law unconstitutional By DAVID PITT JanuGMT DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) A state judge on Tuesday struck down Iowa’s restrictive fetal heartbeat abortion law, which would have been the most restrictive anti-abortion law in the nation. The controversial new law bans nearly all abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, at about six weeks of pregnancy, and was slated to take effect July 1.The law quickly drew a legal challenge from Planned Parenthood and the ACLU of Iowa, which said the measure would make abortions illegal in cases in which women might not have realized they're pregnant."Not only is this law blatantly unconstitutional - it's extremely harmful to women," Planned Parenthood said of the lawsuit filed on behalf of Planned Parenthood of the Heartland and the Emma Goldman Clinic in Iowa City.Katarina Sostaric of Iowa Public Radio reports that "the lawyers for the state agreed to the injunction" to postpone the law while the suit moves forward.Sostaric adds via Twitter, "Court proceedings to decide the fate of the fetal heartbeat abortion law will take months, if not longer."Iowa Gov. The fate of the 2019 laws in Georgia, Mississippi and Ohio will be fought in courts. ETA judge in Iowa has placed a temporary injunction on the state's "heartbeat law," one of the most restrictive abortion measures in the United States. Iowa was the next state to enact a heartbeat bill, in May 2018, Nash said. Summing up the three justices’ opinion who voted against Reynolds, one of those justices wrote that it would be “legislating from the bench to take a statute that was moribund when it was enacted and has been enjoined for four years and then to put it into effect.” An opinion from the other side countered that the Iowa Legislature had already legislated the law in question there just wasn’t a majority in this case to exercise discretion to act on it.Īt any rate, because of this strange stalemate, the law remains blocked and abortion remains legal in Iowa for now - that is, through about 20 weeks.Updated at 2:07 p.m. ![]() Nonetheless, justices wrote opinions explaining themselves - and taking judicial jabs at one another. 22 hours ago &0183 &32 After a state supreme court ruling, Iowa Democrats brace for special legislative session on abortion and the fetal-heartbeat bill. ![]() Procedurally, it’s an unusual situation that failed to produce an actual opinion of the court. Yet, with one of the Iowa justices recused from the case, the remaining six split, resulting in the law continuing to be blocked. Kim Reynolds tried to put the heartbeat law into action. ![]() After that Dobbs ruling opened the door for states to ban abortion, Iowa’s Republican Gov. ![]()
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