{"id":1973478,"date":"2023-07-14T18:25:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T22:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iowa-governor-signs-six-week-abortion-ban\/"},"modified":"2023-07-14T18:25:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T22:25:02","slug":"iowa-governor-signs-six-week-abortion-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iowa-governor-signs-six-week-abortion-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa Governor Signs Six-Week Abortion Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/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-governor-signs-six-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=1973478&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--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/iowa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iowa<\/a> Governor Kim Reynolds signed a six-week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/abortion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abortion<\/a> ban for her state into law Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis week, in a rare and historic special session, the Iowa legislature voted for a second time to reject the inhumanity of abortion and pass the fetal heartbeat law,\u201d Reynolds, a Republican, said ahead of signing the bill at the Family Leadership Summit to a round of applause.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LifeNewsHQ\/status\/1679953932003741698\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">She later added<\/a>: \u201cAll life is precious and worthy of the protection of our laws.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The legislation bans abortion past when fetal cardiac activity can be detected, usually around six weeks of pregnancy, with exceptions for when the life of the mother is in danger, fetal abnormalities that would result in the baby\u2019s death, rapes reported within 45 days, and incest reported within 140 days.<\/p>\n<p>The bill passed Iowa\u2019s Republican-controlled legislature earlier this week and goes into effect immediately.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe voices of Iowans and their democratically elected representatives cannot be ignored any longer, and justice for the unborn should not be delayed,\u201d Reynolds <a href=\"https:\/\/governor.iowa.gov\/press-release\/2023-07-11\/gov-reynolds-statement-special-session-protect-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in a statement at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Abortion providers have already filed a legal challenge against the ban.<\/p>\n<p>The bill emphasizes that the law is \u201cnot to be construed to impose civil or criminal liability on a woman upon whom an abortion is performed in violation of the division.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the bill allows Iowa\u2019s board of medicine leeway on deciding how abortion providers who violate the law should be punished.<\/p>\n<p>Iowa\u2019s \u201cheartbeat\u201d bill is the latest in a string of GOP-led state laws restricting abortion after the Supreme Court in June last year overturned <em>Roe vs. Wade<\/em>, the landmark 1973 decision that made abortion legal nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Abortion is currently <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/abortion-poll-roe-dobbs-ban-opinion-fcfdfc5a799ac3be617d99999e92eabe?utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&#038;utm_medium=AP&#038;utm_source=Twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">banned<\/a> throughout pregnancy in 14 states, which have different exceptions depending on the state.<\/p>\n<p>In Georgia, abortion is banned once the unborn baby\u2019s heartbeat can be detected, which is around six weeks. Similar \u201cheartbeat\u201d abortion bans in Ohio and South Carolina are stuck in court, so they are not currently in effect. Florida <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/04\/13\/florida-6-week-abortion-ban-bill-00091965\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passed<\/a> a \u201cheartbeat\u201d ban in April that will not take effect until the Florida Supreme Court delivers a ruling on an abortion case about a separate 15-week ban Governor Ron DeSantis approved last year.<\/p>\n<p>Abortion procedures differ depending on how far along the mother is in her pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>In the first trimester, a woman can often <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uclahealth.org\/medical-services\/obgyn\/family-planning\/patient-resources\/medical-abortion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">undergo<\/a> a medication abortion at home, which involves taking the drugs mifepristone and misoprostol to cause the uterus to shed its lining and start cramping and bleeding, expelling the baby.<\/p>\n<p>For abortions later in the pregnancy, a surgical procedure called d<span class=\"mw-page-title-main\">ilation and evacuation (D&#038;E) is often used, which<\/span> involves dilating the cervix and using a suction tube and sometimes forceps to remove the baby and all other pregnancy-related tissue.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-life doctors have condemned the D&#038;E procedure as brutal to the unborn child, and pro-life groups have worked for years to raise awareness about how the procedure actually works.<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of Americans want some restrictions on abortion, even though most do not want abortion to be totally banned, new poll data show.<\/p>\n<p>Only about a quarter of Americans say abortion should always be legal, according to a June <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/abortion-poll-roe-dobbs-ban-opinion-fcfdfc5a799ac3be617d99999e92eabe?utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&#038;utm_medium=AP&#038;utm_source=Twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poll<\/a> from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.<\/p>\n<p>About 73% of people think abortion should be legal in the first six weeks of pregnancy, but that number drops to only half of Americans at 15 weeks, which is still just the beginning of the second trimester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed a six-week abortion ban for her state into law Friday afternoon. \u201cThis week, in a rare and historic special session, the Iowa legislature voted for a second time to reject the inhumanity of abortion and pass the fetal heartbeat law,\u201d Reynolds, a Republican, said ahead of signing the bill at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":1973479,"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":[],"class_list":["post-1973478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/1973478","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\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1973478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1973479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1973478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1973478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1973478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}