Iowa’s six-week abortion ban is now in effect
However, the 4-3 Iowa Supreme Court decision sets a high standard for finding state abortion laws unconstitutional. The Supreme Court majority ruled that the “rational basis” test will be used to assess Iowa abortion laws constitutionality. This means that if the state has a legitimate reason to enact a law restricting abortion, the measure can stand.
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Iowa law banning abortions after six weeks goes into effect
“The upholding of this abortion ban in Iowa is an absolute devastation and violation of human rights, depriving Iowans of their bodily autonomy,” Leah Vanden Bosch, development and outreach director of the Iowa Abortion Access Fund, said in a statement. “We know a ban will not stop the need for abortions.”
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Harris campaign center healthcare and abortion rights: ‘If she wins, it’s because of Dobbs’
Trump’s abortion plank also invokes fetal personhood, which could make abortion, IVF procedures, and miscarriages prosecutable as murder. The concept of fetal personhood, wherein a zygote, embryo or fetus has the same rights as people, is “very scary. It’s scary as everyone suggests it is, and not just for abortion,” Donley said.
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