Iowa Supreme Court Ruling Strikes Constitutional Protection For Abortion – By Kira Davis (Red State) / June 17, 2022
On Friday, the Iowa Supreme Court issued a ruling finding there is not legal protection for abortion in the state constitution.
The ruling reversed a decision made by a district court in 2018 regarding a law that required a 24-hour waiting period before a woman can abort her child.
The make-up of the Iowa Supreme Court has changed dramatically under Republican Governor Kim Reynolds, who has named four of seven justices to the court since 2017.
WHO13 News reports Justice Edward Mansfield, who wrote the opinion, rejects the notion that politics played a part in the decision, suggesting it was a correcting a political ruling rather than making one.
