{"id":1949128,"date":"2023-06-16T12:37:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T16:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iowa-supreme-court-upholds-ruling-blocking-6-week-abortion-ban\/"},"modified":"2023-06-16T12:38:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T16:38:33","slug":"iowa-supreme-court-upholds-ruling-blocking-6-week-abortion-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iowa-supreme-court-upholds-ruling-blocking-6-week-abortion-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa Supreme Court maintains ban on 6-week abortion."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fiowa-supreme-court-upholds-ruling-blocking-6-week-abortion-ban%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1949128&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>In a split decision, the Iowa Supreme Court upholds <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scotus-to-hear-appeal-over-ky-abortion-law\/\" title=\"SCOTUS to hear appeal over Ky. abortion law\">lower court ruling<\/a> blocking state&#8217;s six<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vogue-magazine-help-freezing-texans-by-paying-for-their-travel-to-get-an-abortion\/\" title=\"Vogue Magazine: Help Freezing Texans By Paying For Their Travel To Get An Abortion\">-week abortion ban<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Iowa Supreme Court has made a split decision, with a 3-3 vote, upholding a lower court ruling that blocked the state&#8217;s controversial six-week abortion ban. This ruling comes after the recent landmark Supreme Court case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization, which overruled the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-the-democrats-election-heist-too-big-to-fail\/\" title=\"Is the Democrats\u2019 Election Heist \u2018Too Big to Fail\u2019?\">precedent set<\/a> by Roe v. Wade.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Disappointment and Controversy<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Republican Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds expressed her disappointment in the Iowa Supreme Court&#8217;s decision, stating, &#8220;To say that today&#8217;s lack of action by the Iowa Supreme Court is a disappointment is an understatement.&#8221; She believes that the court has disregarded the will of Iowa voters and has sided with a single judge in a single county, going against the rights of unborn children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The heartbeat bill, which was signed by Governor Reynolds in 2018, was unable to go into effect due to the Roe ruling and was subsequently blocked by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-6-biggest-lies-youve-been-told-about-the-texas-abortion-law\/\" title=\"The 6 Biggest Lies You\u2019ve Been Told About The Texas Abortion Law\">previous court ruling<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Legal Battles and Opinions<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The split decision was influenced by Justice Dana Oxley&#8217;s recusal from the case. Justice Thomas Waterman wrote the opinion in favor of Planned Parenthood, arguing that the Iowa Supreme Court has the duty to interpret only the Iowa Constitution and is not bound by the interpretation of the federal Constitution by the U.S. Supreme Court. Justice Christopher McDonald and Matthew McDermott wrote opinions in favor of the state, with McDermott emphasizing that the law should be enforced regardless of the legislature&#8217;s intentions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite the court&#8217;s ruling, the Iowa General Assembly is now seeking to pass a &#8220;life amendment&#8221; that would declare no right to abortion in the state. If passed, this amendment will be put on the ballot in 2024 for voters to decide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1686769858594000&#038;usg=AOvVaw29MU9w81PAp3j3uHg4Fp5m\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The legal battle over abortion in Iowa continues, with both sides passionately arguing their positions. The future of abortion rights in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iowa-supreme-court-upholds-ruling-blocking-6-week-abortion-ban\/\" title=\"Iowa Supreme Court maintains ban on 6-week abortion.\">state remains uncertain<\/a>, as the debate rages on.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a divided ruling, the Iowa Supreme Court upheld a lower court&#8217;s decision to block the state&#8217;s six-week abortion ban. With a 3-3 split, the court allowed the district court&#8217;s ruling to stand, which had already blocked the ban prior to the Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization case overturning Roe v. Wade. Today&#8217;s outcome highlights the absence of a clear consensus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2107,"featured_media":1949129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[19214,4310,7008,4733,5626,16113,4730],"class_list":["post-1949128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-6-week","tag-abortion","tag-ban","tag-court","tag-iowa","tag-maintains","tag-supreme"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1949129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}