Afternoon Briefing: Iowa’s Supreme Court tells lower court to let strict abortion law go into effect
Good afternoon, Chicago.
The Iowa Supreme Court said Friday the state’s strict abortion law is legal, telling a lower court to dissolve a temporary block on the law and allowing Iowa to ban most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy — before many women know they are pregnant.
The 4-3 ruling is a win for Republican lawmakers, and Iowa joins more than a dozen other states with restrictive abortion laws following the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022.
Currently, 14 states have near-total bans at all stages of pregnancy and three ban abortions at about six weeks.
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