Mon Jul 31, 2023 – 5:29 pm EDT
DES MOINES, Iowa (LifeSiteNews) – The Iowa Supreme Court agreed to reconsider the constitutionality of banning abortion upon detection of a fetal heartbeat in light of state lawmakers recently re-passing the policy.
Earlier this month, Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a law banning abortion starting at around six weeks, with exceptions for rape, incest, fatal fetal abnormalities, threats to the mother’s life, and miscarriages while allowing abortion for any reason prior to the detection of a fetal heartbeat.
Iowa already had such a law on the books since 2018, but in June the state’s highest court deadlocked on its legality, with a 3-3 vote that resulted in it continuing to be blocked from enforcement. Three argued that the law should be allowed to take effect in light of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade last year, and three held that, as Justice Thomas Waterman claimed, it would “bypass the legislature” to let an act of the legislature take effect, and that “legislative reenactment” should be required to “assur[e] that a current legislative majority supports the statutory restriction on liberty.”
In response, Reynolds filed an appeal of
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