CV NEWS FEED // Iowa’s Supreme Court has declined to rehear a case challenging a law banning most abortions after six weeks in the state, setting the pro-life law to go into effect on July 29, according to the Iowa-based news publication the Gazette.
Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Iowa, and the Emma Goldman Clinic requested the rehearing, which was ultimately denied on July 22, the Gazette reported.
The pro-abortion organizations said in a statement that the Supreme Court’s decision to not rehear the case “will push abortion care almost entirely out of reach in Iowa.”
Abortion was previously legal in Iowa up to about 20 weeks, according to the Gazette. In July 2023, a special state legislature approved a six-week abortion ban, according to a report last year from the Associated Press (AP). The day after the legislature approved it, several pro-abortion organizations filed a legal challenge against it.
On June 28 the state Supreme Court ruled 4-3 against the pro-abortion appelles in a case challenging the pro-life law, ruling that the law is constitutional.
According to the July 23 report from the Gazette, last week District Court Judge Jeffrey Farrell lifted the temporary injunction that previously blocked the law from going into effect.
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, who signed the pro-life law in 2023, said in a statement after the Supreme Court’s rejection to rehear the case that there is “no right more sacred than life, and nothing more worthy of our strongest defense than the innocent unborn.”
