"To say that today's lack of action by the Iowa Supreme Court is a disappointment is an understatement," she wrote in a statement. Reynolds criticized the court, saying it failed to exercise its authority. Kim Reynolds delivers her inaugural address, Jan. "The State appealed, and now asks our court to do something that has never happened in Iowa history: to simultaneously bypass the legislature and change the law, to adopt rational basis review, and then to dissolve an injunction to put a statute into effect for the first time in the same case in which that very enactment was declared unconstitutional years earlier," Justice Thomas Waterman wrote in the court's decision Friday. Since the 2018 decision, the composition of the state Supreme Court had shifted with Reynolds, a Republican, appointing four of the seven justices.īut the court disagreed that it could revive a law that had been struck down years prior. Wade last summer, Iowa's highest court in June 2022 reversed the 2018 decision and concluded that abortion is not protected by the state constitution.
Patients who want an abortion in Iowa must have one in-person counseling sessions and then return at least 24 hours later for the abortion. (Charlie Neibergall/AP, FILE)Ĭurrently, abortion is banned in the state after 22 weeks, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group focusing on sexual and reproductive health.
PHOTO: The Iowa Judicial Branch Building is shown, June 17, 2022, in Des Moines, Iowa.
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