TODAY: Iowa Holds Special Session To Ban Abortion

July 11, 2023 Politics, Republicans

Iowa’s Republican-controlled legislature on Tuesday will consider a ban on abortions as soon as fetal cardiac activity can be detected, after around six weeks of pregnancy and before most women know they are pregnant.

Governor Kim Reynolds, a Republican, ordered the special legislative session after the Iowa Supreme Court on June 16 blocked a similar measure passed in 2018 from going into effect.

The Midwestern state’s highest court deadlocked in a 3-3 decision, leaving abortion legal in Iowa for up to 20 weeks of pregnancy. Fourteen states have banned most abortions since the U.S. Supreme Court in June 2022 overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case and stripped away a nationwide right to abortion.

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Iowa Republicans are poised to pass extreme abortion restrictions this week in the latest effort by MAGA Republicans to rip away freedoms from women.

The 2024 GOP field will keep pushing for these extreme abortion bans.https://t.co/fOPyXZUvcy

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