The Iowa Supreme Court has weighed in on the state’s law barring abortions after about six weeks of gestation, in a decision released on Friday on an injunction that has kept the law from taking effect.
via the Des Moines Register:
A divided Iowa Supreme Court decided 4-3 Friday to remove an injunction blocking enforcement of Iowa’s so-called “fetal heartbeat” abortion law and to remove legal barriers for future abortion restrictions.
The ruling is the latest in a string of legal disputes over the status of abortion in Iowa. It comes after the court in 2022 held there is no “fundamental right” to abortion, and a 2023 case in which the court split 3-3 on what the correct legal standard should be for judging the constitutionality of abortion laws.
The law the court is allowing to take effect bans most abortions after fetal cardiac activity can be detected — about the sixth week of…
