DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa choose on Monday briefly blocked the state’s new ban on most abortions after about six weeks of being pregnant, simply days after Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the measure into legislation.
That means abortion is as soon as once more authorized in Iowa as much as 20 weeks of being pregnant whereas the courts assess the brand new legislation’s constitutionality.
The new legislation prohibits virtually all abortions as soon as cardiac exercise might be detected, which is often round six weeks of being pregnant and earlier than many ladies know they’re pregnant.
The Republican-controlled Legislature accepted the measure in a uncommon, all-day particular session final week, prompting a authorized problem by the ACLU of Iowa, Planned Parenthood North Central States and the Emma Goldman Clinic. Judge Joseph Seidlin held a listening to on the matter Friday, however mentioned he would take the problem below advisement — simply as Reynolds signed the invoice into legislation a few mile away.
Abortion suppliers mentioned they scrambled final week to slot in as many appointments as doable earlier than the governor put pen to paper, preemptively making tons of of calls to organize sufferers for the uncertainty and protecting clinics open late.
