Iowa’s Legislature convenes Tuesday in a special session focused exclusively on abortion restrictions
After both bodies overturned those rulings last year,
sought to reinstate the 2018 law, but the state's high court deadlocked last month without ruling on the merits of an abortion ban, leaving the law permanently blocked.The draft of the measure released Friday indicates that Republican lawmakers want it to take immediate effect with the governor's signature. The law as written is likely to be challenged with similar expediency.
Planned Parenthood North Central States is prepared to file that challenge, representatives said Monday, Meanwhile, the organization will refer patients out of state if they're scheduled for abortions in the next few weeks, and will continue to provide care to patients who present before cardiac activity is detected.
“We will keep seeing those patients and fight our way back to the Iowa Supreme Court when this law goes into effect,” said Chief Medical Officer Sarah Traxler.have drastically limited abortion access in the year since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and handed authority on abortion law to the states. More than a dozen states have bans with limited exceptions and one state, Georgia, bans abortion after cardiac activity is detected.
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