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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 realDonaldTrump on Friday May 04 2018, @04:21AM
I'm pro-life. But there has to be a choice. If I knocked up some woman and she asked me to pay for the abortion, how could I tell her "no"? Have you ever been in that situation? Tough situation. Very hard to say "no" to that. Planned Parenthood. Millions of millions of women -- cervical cancer, breast cancer -- are helped by Planned Parenthood. I would defund it because I'm pro-life, but millions of women are helped by Planned Parenthood.
@VP [twitter.com] Pence is much tougher. He told Indiana Right to Life, "abortion should NEVER be legal."
And he's worked very hard on that. He did the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act -- that one didn't go through -- where there would be no government money for the abortion unless it was forcible rape. If she doesn't put up a fight, no money. Would have been a big money saver, if it went though.
And he worked very hard in Indiana. He said, no abortions for the wrong reasons. Because of Down's, because it's a cripple or has a VERY TINY brain, because it's a girl, because it's the wrong race, because of bad genes. They call it the reason ban. Great name.