![]() ![]() Supreme Courts, the Iowa Supreme Court should reverse its 2019 ruling and allow the fetal heartbeat law to go into effect. Schandevel on Tuesday told the justices that because the courts no longer recognize a fundamental right to an abortion, and because there has been a substantial change in the law with those 2022 decisions by the Iowa and U.S. ![]() That request was dismissed by a district court judge, and Reynolds appealed that decision to the state. Shortly after those two rulings, Reynolds asked the Iowa courts to lift the injunction that had been placed in the 2018 state law. Wade case from 1973 that for decades had created a federal right to an abortion. Supreme Court also overturned its ruling in the Roe v. Just three years later and with a new makeup, however, the Iowa Supreme Court in 2022 overturned that ruling, just before the U.S. In 2019, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled the law unconstitutional, writing that the right to an abortion is guaranteed by the Iowa Constitution. Iowa’s fetal heartbeat legislation was passed into law by the Republican-majority Iowa Legislature in 2018 and signed by Reynolds, but immediately was halted by the state courts. However, some major medical organizations, like the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, note that what is detected at six weeks is not a heartbeat at all, but instead electrical impulses, and that an actual heartbeat does not occur until roughly 17 to 20 weeks of pregnancy. You will begin to receive our Daily On Iowa Politics updates. Abortion rights advocates say such a prohibition would end 98 percent of legal abortions in Iowa. Supporters of so-called fetal heartbeat laws say they ban abortions roughly around the sixth week of pregnancy, which often is before a woman is aware she is pregnant. Most decisions are published by the end of the court’s term the current term ends June 30. There is no prescribed timeline for the Iowa Supreme Court to publish a rulings. It says that this court has been following the substantial change in law standard, but that standard also is not found anywhere in the rules,” Im argued. “The state is asking this court to find some kind of hidden, inherent authority that’s found nowhere in the rules. Peter Im, a Planned Parenthood attorney who argued before the Iowa Supreme Court, told the justices that the injunction should remain because the state has attempted to reinstate the 2018 law without going through proper legal procedures, and that the court has not stated a new legal standard by which the 2018 law should be reviewed. Kim Reynolds speaks during a rally in Des Moines on March 9, 2022. Our citizens and their elected officials have chosen to promote Life and end abortion at a heartbeat, with exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother.” ![]() Wade, decision-making power has been returned to the states. “I remain optimistic that the Iowa Supreme Court will allow the fetal heartbeat bill to take effect as the Iowa Constitution requires,” Reynolds said in a statement. ![]() Reynolds attended Tuesday’s oral arguments in the Iowa Supreme Court chambers. ![]()
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