The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday validated the entry into force of a law banning most abortions from the sixth week of pregnancy, before the majority of women know they are pregnant. This is a victory for the Republicans.
The Midwestern state joins a string of states that have severely restricted or even banned abortion after the nation’s Supreme Court struck down the federal abortion guarantee in 2022.
Democratic President Joe Biden has denounced an “extreme and dangerous abortion ban” that “puts women’s health and lives at risk.” “This should never happen in America,” he added, vowing to continue calling on Congress to restore federal abortion protections.
The issue of abortion is one of the key themes of the campaign for the November presidential election, which will pit Republican Donald Trump against Mr Biden.
Heartbeat
In a ruling, the Iowa Supreme Court overturned a court’s temporary injunction that blocked the law, passed last summer, from taking effect. The law prohibits most abortions once a heartbeat has been detected, usually around six weeks of pregnancy.
Chief Justice Susan Christensen expressed strong opposition to the decision in a dissent. “The majority of our court deprives Iowa women of their bodily autonomy by holding that there is no fundamental right to terminate a pregnancy under our state constitution. I cannot accept this decision,” she wrote.
“The majority’s rigid approach relies heavily on the history and traditions of the male-dominated 1800s and ignores how far women’s rights have come since the days of the Civil War,” a- she said crazy.
The Republican governor of Iowa, Kim Reynolds, welcomed the decision. ‘There is no right more sacred than life and nothing more deserves our firmest defense than [enfants] innocents not born,’ she reacted.
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