(Washington) The Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday to allow a law banning most abortions to take effect as early as the sixth week of pregnancy, before most women know they are speakers.
It is a victory for elected Republican officials, and Iowa thus joins the states having strongly restricted, or even banned, abortion after the annulment in 2022 by the Supreme Court of the United States of its federal guarantee.
The issue of abortion is one of the key themes of the November presidential campaign, which pits Republican Donald Trump against Democratic President Joe Biden.
In a ruling, the Iowa Supreme Court overturned a court’s temporary injunction that blocked the law, passed last summer, from taking effect. The law prohibits most abortions once a heartbeat has been detected, usually around six weeks of pregnancy.
Chief Justice Susan Christensen expressed strong opposition to the decision in a dissenting argument.
“Today, the majority on our court is stripping Iowa women of their bodily autonomy by declaring that there is no fundamental right to terminate a pregnancy under our state constitution. I cannot accept this decision,” she wrote.
“The majority’s rigid approach relies heavily on the history and traditions of the male-dominated 1800s and ignores how far women’s rights have come since the days of the Civil War,” a- she said crazy.
The Republican governor of Iowa, Kim Reynolds, welcomed the decision.
Instead, local Democratic Sen. Pam Jochum called it “a tragic day in Iowa history.”