The Iowa Supreme Court overruled a lower court and allowed the state’s six-week abortion ban to go into effect.
A lower state court blocked the law, which blocked abortions after six weeks with exceptions for rape, incest, life of the mother, or fetal abnormalities “incompatible with life,” shortly after it was signed into law in July 2023. The 4-3 ruling issued on Friday removed the temporary injunction, clearing the way for the law to go into effect.
“We reverse the order granting the temporary injunction and remand the case for the district court to dissolve the temporary injunction and continue with further proceedings,” the majority opinion said.
Gov. Kim Reynolds (R-IA), who signed the abortion restrictions into law, applauded the decision as “upholding the will of the people.”
“There is no right more sacred than life, and nothing more worthy of our strongest…
