Judge declares Iowa fetal heartbeat law unconstitutional
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DES MOINES, Iowa — A state judge has struck down Iowa's restrictive "fetal heartbeat" abortion law.
Judge Michael Huppert on Tuesday found the law unconstitutional. He concluded that the Iowa Supreme Court's earlier decisions that affirm a woman's fundamental right to an abortion would include the new law passed last year.
The law would ban once a fetal heartbeat is detected. That can happen as early as six weeks into pregnancy. It would have been the most restrictive anti-abortion law in the nation. But the legal challenge by abortion providers Planned Parenthood of the Heartland and the Emma Goldman Clinic had halted it from taking effect last July.
Supporters of the law are likely to ask the Iowa Supreme Court to hear an appeal of Huppert's ruling.
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A good call by the judge. The "fetal heartbeat" law is blatantly unconstitutional. It boggles the mind why legislators in various states try to pass such laws when they are doomed to fail and be declared unconstitutional from the start.
Gradually moving the goalposts.
They haven't moved. but that doesn't stop them from trying either.
Politicians know that they have to pander to religious nuts, even if their ideas are blatantly unconstitutional.
And what's more nutty than electing politicians who don't care about the Constitution or peoples rights.
Women are still second-class citizens in the eyes of religious conservatives. We are supposed to accept our fate as baby makers instead of demanding equality and having a voice in politics.
The Bible is superior to the US Constitution in the eyes of religious nuts.
I've actually heard some people say that too. or say that the Constitution should be replaced with the bible.
Yep, nothing like subservience, eh?
These are usually the same conservative numbskulls who scream that the Obama and liberals ignored the US constitution and the rule of law.
I love this graphic from last weekend's womens march,
A great graphic.
Wait until you see and read this article on the FP...The RW may have this backfire big time.
There will be no funding for the wall, and Nancy Pelosi won't support that legislation. It's a dead issue, so I'm not sure why the GOP would even try that stunt.
Using VAWA act as a threat is, IMO, a huge mistake by the republicans.
The GOP is already hemorrhaging women voters because of Trump, so why would they mention that idea and make it worse?
Because they are stupid.
They are throwing everything but the kitchen sink in so trump can get his wall, this is going to backfire on them.
Yet another dick move by the 'president'
Wacko...
Because they don't care about women, except as auxiliaries.
Love that graphic.
I know this is off topic but, NY just passed a broader abortion law and people I know on fb are spreading false information that it means you can abort up to the point of birth......grrrrrr....people can't read!
That is true, but only if the life of the mother is in danger. The limit of elective abortion is currently between 22 and 24 weeks.
I know as NY wanted to pass this so mirror roe v. wade in case roe was ever overturned. NY legalized abortion 3 yrs. before roe
On topic, I'm glad this judge declared this fetal heartbeat law unconstitutional. Yes, I am way beyond child bearing but the shit they keep trying to pass is beyond insane.
It’s humorous to listen to conservatives try and sound compassionate about abortion. They like to consider the terms ‘ pro-life’ and ‘pro-women’ to be one in the same. A couple days ago one told me that he is in favor of a right to choose for women who have been raped or for a severely disabled fetus. However, he simply can’t follow his own ideology to its logical conclusions. Imagine hopelessly clogging up the courts and prisons over questionable ‘rape’ cases, all because a minority of citizens can’t accept that a woman has a right to choose what happens to her own body. Imagine the legal arguments shifting from should abortion be illegal to what defines ‘severely disabled’. Imagine significantly delaying the abortion of a growing fetus because the mother needs to argue a case for its termination in the courts. Imagine innocent men being imprisoned for rape, because their partner wanted to terminate a pregnancy.
In more than a decade of forum debates, I have never met an anti-abortion partisan who can present a coherent argument.
It all comes down to: "God told my preacher and my preacher told me!" Strictly tribal, without any reasonable basis. The Bible is mute; science is irrelevant... "My preacher told me..."
They always revert back to god in some fashion, which is really funny considering their god has killed millions of babies and fetii.
But they rarely admit it.
The average MAGA-evangelical doesn't know what he's talking about. He has rote-learned a few bullet points, and repeats them like a parrot. The few - very few - who actually do understand the subject are eels: they wriggle away every time the conversation gets serious.
The problem is that there is no rational argument for them. A purely faith-based argument is always possible, but even then, they must claim that God speaks directly to them, and to none other.
So they scream "Baby Killers!!" They assume that enough repetition and volume will win in the end. They may be right.
Their arguments are alway emotionally based or devolve into one.
All the evidence I've ever seen certainly points that way.
Of course he/she did, just like every other time. But will that stop the next attempt to restrict abortions, of course not
And there's always a next time, right?
Lol always
Mike Dewine(R) has said that he is going to sign the previous heartbeat law that John Kasich had previously vetoed. These idiots just don't learn. He admitted that the Iowa bill was struck down by the courts.