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DES MOINES, Iowa, June 23, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – On Monday, District Court Judge Mitchell Turner blocked Iowa from enforcing a 2020 law requiring women to wait at least 24 hours before aborting their babies, citing pro-abortion judicial precedent and state legislative procedure.
Last year, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the measure as an amendment to House File 594, a bill that ensures courts cannot withdraw life-sustaining care from a child without their parents’ consent. The amendment requires mothers to wait at least 24 hours after their initial appointment before going through with an abortion. Planned Parenthood quickly sued, and Turner granted a temporary injunction.
Now, Turner has ruled that the amendment violated language in the Iowa Constitution requiring legislative amendments to be about the same issue as the main bill to which they are attached.
“Upon review of both the Iowa Senate and House videos, it is abundantly clear to this Court that what occurred in the Iowa Legislature on June 13th and 14th, 2020 was exactly such ‘tricks in legislation’ and ‘mischiefs’ that the single-subject rule exists
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