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Iowa's highest court has upheld a law saying the state can enforce a ban on most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. The law bans abortions after early signs of cardiac activity can be detected in a foetus or embryo - but makes exceptions for cases of rape,
The ban, passed last summer, was among many conservative states’ efforts to end abortion in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.
Iowa joins more than a dozen other states with restrictive abortion laws following the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022.
The Iowa Supreme Court has reversed a lower court ruling that put a temporary block on the state’s strict abortion law, and is telling the lower court to let the law take effect.
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday to uphold the state’s abortion ban, which prohibits most abortions in the state as early as six weeks into pregnancy.
Iowa leaders want its halted abortion law to go into effect. The state's high court will rule Friday
The Iowa Supreme Court is expected to weigh in on the state’s temporarily blocked abortion law, which prohibits abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy and before many women know they are pregnan
Opinion: A cruel, near-total abortion ban will ruin some lives and end others. Voters must deliver consequences, writes the Register editorial board.
Hours after a U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding emergency abortion care, Florida health regulators issued new rules with little fanfare late Thursday to clarify how medical providers should respond to pregnant women with complications that put them in peril.
Nearly two dozen US states have banned or severely restricted access to abortion. View CNN’s abortion law map to see where abortions are legal, banned, or in limbo.
Here's what to know about the major abortion decision the Iowa Supreme Court handed down Friday. The 4-3 ruling strikes down an injunction by a Polk County court that barred enforcement of a 2023 Iowa law banning abortions after fetal cardiac activity,
Policy, politics and progressive commentary A proposed constitutional amendment to protect the right to an abortion has qualified for Nevada’s November ballot, Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar announced Friday.
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday to uphold a law banning abortion after no more than six weeks of pregnancy, NPR reported. The law, which replaces a 20-week ban, prohibits abortions after early cardiac activity is detected in an embryo,
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Most abortions will soon be illegal in Iowa after six weeks of pregnancy following the Iowa Supreme Court’s decision Friday to overturn a lower court’s block on the 2023 abortion law. The 4-3 decision allows enforcement of the law that was previously blocked by a temporary injunction in a case challenging Iowa’s law restricting most
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday to allow a law which will ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, which can be as early as six weeks. Governor Kim Reynolds signed the uber-restrictive heartbeat abortion ban into law in July 2023,
The decision is the latest in a string of legal disputes over the status of abortion in Iowa. It comes after the court in 2022 held that abortion rights are not entitled to the highest level of constitutional protection,
Planned Parenthood and Emma Goldman Clinic announce plans for abortion care in Iowa after state Supreme Court allows strict ban to go into effect.
Abortions in Iowa will be illegal once cardiac activity can be detected in a fetus after the Iowa Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for a 2023 state law
Iowans have been waiting for months for the state Supreme Court to issue its ruling on the "fetal heartbeat" law.
Iowa’s Supreme Court on Friday said the state’s six-week ban on abortion is legal, the latest example of a state imposing severe restrictions since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago.
Iowans supporting access to abortion rally on Thursday, April 11, 2024, outside the courthouse in Des Moines, Iowa, where the Iowa Supreme Court heard arguments on the state's restrictive abortion law.
Hear from advocates at the Iowa State Capitol after Iowa Supreme Court ruled the state's 6-week abortion ban can take effect.
Those against the the Iowa Supreme Court's decision to allow the six-week abortion ban aren't ready to give up the fight.Locals gathered in the NewBo district
Simran Parwani/Axios Visuals State laws surrounding abortion have been in flux since since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade nearly two years ago. The big picture: The battle over abortion access remains in some states,
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With the Iowa Supreme Court decision reversing the block on the six-week abortion ban, clinics across the state are preparing to change the way their offices op
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The Iowa Supreme Court said Friday the state’s strict abortion law is legal, telling a lower court to dissolve a temporary block on the law and allowing Iowa to
As the country reels from a presidential debate that left no one looking good, the Supreme Court has swooped in with what could be one of the most consequential decisions it has e
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Republicans state leaders are celebrating the Iowa Supreme Court's decision to reverse a block on a near six-week abortion ban in Iowa while Democrats are sayin
A 4-3 ruling Friday has overturned a lower court’s temporary block, allowing the ban to take effect in Iowa{beacon} Health Care Health Care
Reproductive health care advocates and providers are preparing for how to help Iowans access abortion following Friday’s Iowa Supreme Court decision that will allow the state’s six-week abortion ban t
Iowa's Supreme Court will make the call Friday on whether to let the state's six week abortion ban go into effect.A lot of states enacted their own abortion law
Iowa joins more than a dozen other states with restrictive abortion laws following the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022.
Iowa's highest court on Friday upheld the US state's six-week abortion ban, two years after the federal right to the procedure was overturned and with the topic a key issue in the US presidential election.
Iowa City lawmakers railed against the state Supreme Court and Gov. Kim Reynolds on Friday after the court ruled the state's abortion ban was constitutional.
Justice Matthew McDermott wrote the majority opinion and was joined by Justices Christopher McDonald, Dana Oxley and David May.