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Odoreida

(1,549 posts) Wed May 2, 2018, 08:03 PM May 2018

Iowa passes 'fetal heartbeat' abortion ban, most restrictive in U.S.

Iowa passes 'fetal heartbeat' abortion ban, most restrictive in U.S.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iowa-abortion/iowa-passes-fetal-heartbeat-abortion-ban-most-restrictive-in-u-s-idUSKBN1I3257

(Reuters) - Iowa’s Republican-controlled legislature passed the most restrictive abortion ban in the United States on Wednesday, outlawing the procedure after a fetal heartbeat is detected, often at six weeks and before a woman realizes she is pregnant.

The Senate voted 29-17 to pass the House of Representatives-approved bill, according to the legislature’s online voting tallies. The bill now goes to Republican Governor Kim Reynolds, an abortion opponent, who has not said publicly whether she will sign it into law.

The legislation is aimed at triggering a challenge to Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 landmark decision which established that women have a constitutional right to an abortion, activists on both sides of the issue said.

Abortion opponents aim to land abortion questions back in front of the nation’s top court, where they believe the 5-4 conservative majority could sharply curtail abortion access or ban it outright.

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Iowa passes 'fetal heartbeat' abortion ban, most restrictive in U.S. (Original Post) Odoreida May 2018 OP

Another attempt to get Roe v Wade reheard. joshcryer May 2018 #1

Iowa used to have no-nonsense level headed residents question everything May 2018 #2

joshcryer

(62,536 posts)

1. Another attempt to get Roe v Wade reheard.

Reply to Odoreida (Original post)

Wed May 2, 2018, 08:05 PM

May 2018

But Roe was based on viability and "heartbeat" is a non-starter.

A tragedy for the families that will have to be forced to have a pregnancy with a non-viable fetus though, in the meantime, as this winds its way through the courts.

question everything

(52,216 posts)

2. Iowa used to have no-nonsense level headed residents

Reply to Odoreida (Original post)

Thu May 3, 2018, 11:43 AM

May 2018

I suppose many of them left.

The only question is: why do we still let this state determine the next president?

In the past forty plus years, only two individuals who won the Iowa Caucus ended up as presidents: Bush in 2000 and Obama in 2008. OK, Carter in 1976 who came second after "undecided." So why is this state, and New Hampshire, still the first in the nation?

Time to switch to rotating regional primaries. How do I contact the DNC?

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