Iowa Judge Permanently Blocks State Law Requiring 24-Hour Wait Before Abortion – By Theodore Bunker (Newsmax) / June 22 2021
A judge in Iowa this week ruled that the state’s law requiring a 24-hour waiting period before getting an abortion violates the state constitution because it was passed as an amendment to an unrelated bill.
Judge Mitchell E. Turner noted in his ruling on Monday that the measure, Amendment H-8314, was added to a bill that concerned withdrawing life-saving procedures from minors, according to The Hill. The amendment stated that women who want an abortion would have to undergo an ultrasound, receive government-mandated information, and wait at least 24 hours before they can get the procedure performed.
The state legislature passed the bill with the measure last year, which prompted a lawsuit from Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union, but Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the bill into law last June.
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