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Iowa Supreme Court clears 6-week abortion ban |
In Thursday night's debate, former President Trump again called for abortion decisions to be left to the states. On Friday, Iowa's Supreme Court ruled in favor of allowing the state's six-week ban to take effect. |
The 4-3 ruling overturned a lower court's temporary block on the law and sent the case back to continue, allowing the ban to take effect. Iowa's law is an example of a "heartbeat statute," which bans abortions after fetal cardiac activity can be detected — usually around six weeks, which is before many women know they are pregnant. The lawsuit was filed by Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, the Emma Goldman Clinic, and the ACLU of Iowa. They argued that the abortion ban was not constitutional under Iowa law. The lower court's injunction kept abortion legal up to 22 weeks of pregnancy. "We conclude that the fetal heartbeat statute is rationally related to the state's legitimate interest in protecting unborn life," the majority wrote. The ruling stated that "neither text nor history establishes abortion as a fundamental right under the Iowa Constitution." The ruling means many women will likely have to travel to nearby states like Illinois or Minnesota if they need an abortion beyond the six-week cutoff. In a statement after the ruling, Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) said she was "glad that the Iowa Supreme Court has upheld the will of the people of Iowa." "There is no right more sacred than life, and nothing more worthy of our strongest defense than the innocent unborn," Reynolds said. President Biden in a statement called the Iowa restrictions "extreme and dangerous." Biden and Democrats have sought to make abortion a central campaign issue this year, though the president muddled his responses on abortion questions during Thursday's debate. |
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Prominent abortion-rights groups rallied around President Biden's reelection campaign Friday, arguing that his administration's record on reproductive health and the "existential" threat of another Trump administration outweigh a poor debate performance. As Democratic lawmakers, strategists and activists spent the day panicking over Biden's ability to lead the party heading into November, abortion-rights leaders said they're … |
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Reps. Scott Peters (D-Calif.) and Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) said policy makers need to strike a balance between savings and innovation in the wake of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which was passed about two years ago. Peters, who represents San Diego, where several drug outfitters are based, has often pushed back against his party’s bolder plans for cutting drug costs. He warned Thursday against placing a … |
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US miners' union head calls House Republican effort to block silica dust rule an 'attack' on workers |
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The head of the national mine workers' union on Friday condemned what he characterized as an effort by House Republicans to block enforcement of a long-awaited federal rule directed at curbing workers’ exposure to poisonous, deadly rock dust, calling it "a direct attack on the health and safety of coal miners." … | |
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Local and state headlines on health care: |
- Youngkin to reestablish maternal health data task force, after vetoing bill that would have done so (Virginia Mercury)
- 'Fecal soup' could be lurking in Iowa floodwaters, health experts warn (ABC News)
- Twenty percent of Kansas Hispanics lack health insurance — three times rate of white residents (Kansas Reflector)
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Health news we've flagged from other outlets: |
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- It was a $6.6B deal for 9 years. Then the feds reneged. Did politics play a role? (The Washington Post)
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