Fr. Mark Hodges
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DES MOINES, Iowa, October 3, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — Planned Parenthood lost its bid to stop Iowa’s pro-life waiting period law.
District Court Judge Jeffrey Farrell turned down the abortion giant in its request for a permanent injunction blocking the law, which requires mothers to consider what they’re doing for 72 hours before getting an abortion.
In doing so, Farrell ruled that pro-life waiting period laws are constitutional.
The law, which then-Gov. Terry Branstad signed in May before he became Ambassador to China, also bans abortions on pain-capable pre-borns after 20 weeks’ gestation. It also requires an ultrasound to accurately determine gestational age and gives women the choice of seeing and/or hearing the ultrasound.
Planned Parenthood of the Heartland (PPH) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) are appealing the law, which they call “malicious” and “anti-woman,” to the Iowa Supreme Court. In the meantime, the law is on hold.
PPH president Suzanna de Baca vowed to fight the law. “This unconstitutional disregard by lawmakers — including (current pro-life Republican) Gov. Kim Reynolds — for women and their right to abortion access, is unacceptable,” she said. “We will fight with every
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