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Related: About this forumIowans Will Soon Lose Access to Most Abortions as Iowa Supreme Court Announces that Abortion Ban Can Take Effect
Des Moines, Iowa The Iowa Supreme Court today dealt a devastating blow to Iowans access to essential health care by announcing that the states abortion ban can soon take effect while the lawsuit challenging the ban proceeds. The ban had been temporarily blocked from taking effect by a lower courts order. The Court has now reversed that temporary block and is sending the case back to the lower court with instructions to remove it. As Chief Justice Christensen explains in her dissent, the Courts decision will force[] pregnant women (and young girls) to endure and suffer through life-altering health complications, and the ominous consequences of affirming this level of government intrusion will negatively impact all current and future Iowans.
Although abortion remains legal in Iowa for now, abortion as early as six weeks of pregnancy will soon be outlawed after the case goes back to the district court. Under the Iowa court rules, it will take at least 21 days for the case to go back to the district court. Abortion will remain legal during that time.
Iowa politicians passed the abortion ban during an unprecedented one-day special session last summer after the Court rejected a similar ban passed in 2018, but the new ban has been blocked by a temporary injunction since shortly after it was signed. Gov. Kim Reynolds asked the Court to reverse the district court decision blocking the six-week ban from taking effect during the lawsuit.
Statement from Ruth Richardson, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood North Central States:
Todays dangerous and reprehensible ruling will impact Iowans for generations to come. Abortion is essential, time-sensitive health care. We want people to know that Planned Parenthood is here and committed to meeting the health care needs of as many patients as possible. We have spent months planning for the possibility of this new reality, putting in place patient navigators and other supports to connect patients with the care they so desperately needboth now and in the future. Every person deserves to have the full range of sexual and reproductive health care they need, including abortion, no matter their ZIP code. Each patient is the expert on their own life, and we trust patients to make decisions about their health, families, and futures. We will not give up. We have been fighting extreme abortion bans since 2018, and in that time, weve also provided abortion to over 11,500 Iowans. Thats thousands of patients who had the freedom to control their bodies, lives, and futures because we kept fighting, and we wont stop now. We wont stop until everyone has the freedom to access the sexual and reproductive health care they need.
https://www.aclu-ia.org/en/press-releases/iowans-will-soon-lose-access-most-abortions-iowa-supreme-court-announces-abortion-ban
Although abortion remains legal in Iowa for now, abortion as early as six weeks of pregnancy will soon be outlawed after the case goes back to the district court. Under the Iowa court rules, it will take at least 21 days for the case to go back to the district court. Abortion will remain legal during that time.
Iowa politicians passed the abortion ban during an unprecedented one-day special session last summer after the Court rejected a similar ban passed in 2018, but the new ban has been blocked by a temporary injunction since shortly after it was signed. Gov. Kim Reynolds asked the Court to reverse the district court decision blocking the six-week ban from taking effect during the lawsuit.
Statement from Ruth Richardson, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood North Central States:
Todays dangerous and reprehensible ruling will impact Iowans for generations to come. Abortion is essential, time-sensitive health care. We want people to know that Planned Parenthood is here and committed to meeting the health care needs of as many patients as possible. We have spent months planning for the possibility of this new reality, putting in place patient navigators and other supports to connect patients with the care they so desperately needboth now and in the future. Every person deserves to have the full range of sexual and reproductive health care they need, including abortion, no matter their ZIP code. Each patient is the expert on their own life, and we trust patients to make decisions about their health, families, and futures. We will not give up. We have been fighting extreme abortion bans since 2018, and in that time, weve also provided abortion to over 11,500 Iowans. Thats thousands of patients who had the freedom to control their bodies, lives, and futures because we kept fighting, and we wont stop now. We wont stop until everyone has the freedom to access the sexual and reproductive health care they need.
https://www.aclu-ia.org/en/press-releases/iowans-will-soon-lose-access-most-abortions-iowa-supreme-court-announces-abortion-ban
Statement from Francine Thompson, Executive Director of the Emma Goldman Clinic
Todays ruling dealt a devastating blow to reproductive freedom and health care in Iowa that will affect generations to come and not be easily undone. We remain committed to helping connect Iowans with the essential, life-saving health care they need and deserve. The courts and politicians have no place in our exam rooms. Today marks a dark day in our states history that robs Iowans of their fundamental right to make what should be fully informed, private medical decisions. It will have devastating impacts on already poor health outcomes in Iowa and force people into pregnancy. We want our patients to know we are here and ready to help them navigate this manufactured chaos and confusion.
Statement from Alexis McGill Johnson, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America:
We are devastated by todays ruling and the harmful consequences it will have on essential health care in Iowa. This ban will push abortion care out of reach for thousands of Iowans. Planned Parenthood is committed to supporting patients and will continue to fight for everyone to be able to access the health care they need and deserve without unnecessary political interference.
Statement from Rita Bettis Austen, ACLU of Iowa Legal Director:
We are heartbroken by the Courts decision to allow Iowas abortion ban to take effect. We know that many Iowans will need this care and now will face unjust and, for some, impossible obstacles in getting it, requiring those whose resources, circumstances, and safety allow them to leave the state to get care. Others will face serious and even life-threatening health consequences as a result of this dangerous and poorly written law. Some will be forced to remain pregnant against their will. This is not what most Iowans want. We know most Iowans want to protect abortion rights and keep politicians out of their private medical decisions. We are committed to continuing the work with all Iowans to secure abortion rights in our state again.
ETA: FUCK this state. When I see my daughter next week, I'm encouraging her to find another place to live.
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Iowans Will Soon Lose Access to Most Abortions as Iowa Supreme Court Announces that Abortion Ban Can Take Effect (Original Post)
progressoid
Jun 2024
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rurallib
(63,254 posts)1. That should drive the few young women left there out of the state.
My daughters won't come back to Iowa.
I am sure that recruiting doctors and talented women will be crushed by this ruling.
Reynolds has sure done a number on a once solid state.
Timeflyer
(2,688 posts)2. Damn. Politicians and judges using women's bodies to pander to the Evangelical Industrial Complex are ok with
pregnant women dying, just so they can get conservative votes. And guns are still protected.
IA8IT
(5,910 posts)3. Stand and Vote November 5. We can not become another hate state run by pubicklans