Less than one day after the Republican-controlled Iowa state legislature passed a six-week abortion ban, lawyers have filed a lawsuit on behalf of reproductive health care specialists to block the ban from being signed into law by Gov. Kim Reynolds.
The new bill is incredibly burdensome, banning abortions at a stage of pregnancy when “many people do not yet know they are pregnant,” the lawsuit notes.
In creating such obstacles, the lawsuit claims, the new bill violates a precedent established by the state Supreme Court, which requires abortion laws passed by the legislature to pass an “undue burden” test. That standard bars any such laws from creating excessive burdens on individuals seeking the procedure.. “This case is squarely controlled by precedent from the Iowa Supreme Court holding that abortion restrictions must be evaluated under the undue burden standard.
Spokespersons for the groups involved in the lawsuit reiterated that the new bill would be unconstitutional, should Reynolds sign it into law.
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