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Iowa approves one of strictest abortion bills in US
The US state of Iowa has approved one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country, banning most abortions once a foetal heartbeat is detected. Republican lawmakers, who control both chambers, passed the bill in back-to-back votes, sending it to the governor's desk to sign into law.
If [signed], the bill would ban most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. Critics argue the bill makes having an abortion illegal before most women even realise they are pregnant.
[...] If [Governor Kim] Reynolds signs the bill into law, it will likely be challenged in court for possibly violating Roe v Wade, the US Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion in 1973. [...] Some Republican lawmakers welcomed the challenge. "I would love for the United States Supreme Court to look at this bill and have this as a vehicle to overturn Roe v. Wade," Republican Senator Jake Chapman said.
Also at NPR, Reuters, the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, and The Hill:
Nineteen states adopted a total of 63 restrictions to the procedure in 2017, which is the highest number of state laws on the issue since 2013, according to the Guttmacher Institute. State legislatures have proposed 15 bills that would ban abortions after 20 weeks and 11 bills that would ban abortions if the sole reason is a genetic anomaly like Down syndrome.
Related: Ohio Bill Would Ban Abortion when a Prenatal Test is Positive for Down Syndrome
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday May 03 2018, @06:54PM (1 child)
How many millions are being spent, because the US constitutions lack a way to review and toss out laws that are blatantly either unconstitutional or inconsistent with current SCOTUS rulings?
Since the official goal of those morons is to have a conservative SCOTUS revisit Roe v Wade, they need better ways than to pass laws that directly contradict the precedent. The court has been tossing quite a few of those recently, because precedence is a conservative value, in the absence of new facts to motivate a change of opinion (and 3 women on the court makes a pretty good block against that particular change).
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Friday May 04 2018, @03:53AM
Our SC judges, they're judges for life. But -- people don't know this -- they can quit any time.
Kennedy, Breyer & Ginsburg are VERY OLD, they're the oldest ones on our SC. Kennedy swings both ways, the others are 100% liberal. So maybe they want a liberal President to pick their replacements. Obama was no liberal, they waited that one out -- very smart move. They can quit now and I'll pick someone. Or they can wait until 2025 and maybe it'll be President Pence picking. And let me tell you, he's no liberal.
I made a great choice with Neil, he's very young. He's the youngest on the SC. And I'd love to put some more young people, but there's nothing I can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is.