![]() now asks our court to do something that has never happened in Iowa history: to simultaneously bypass the legislature and change the law. Waterman, in the opinion joined by Christensen and Mansfield, wrote that it would be "legislating from the bench" to allow the law to go into effect. More: 'Disappointment is an understatement': Kim Reynolds reacts to Iowa Supreme Court abortion decision "Nothing stated in either our opinion or the opinions that follow is the law," Waterman wrote. In opinions released Friday, Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Susan Christensen and Justices Edward Mansfield and Thomas Waterman favored affirming the district court's order blocking the law Justices Christopher McDonald, Matthew McDermott and David May favored reversing the district court.īecause of the deadlock, however, nothing written by any of the justices is more than "their personal advisory opinion," according to Waterman. Abortion access hangs by a thread that politicians in Iowa are trying to cut." Sharp disagreements on display in Iowa Supreme Court justices' advisory opinions I want to be clear: We know the battle is not over. Kim Reynolds and Republican politicians who want to outlaw abortion in Iowa," said Mazie Stilwell, public affairs director for Planned Parenthood Advocates of Iowa. "With its decision, the Iowa Supreme Court took away the political cover sought by Gov. ![]() Planned Parenthood pledged Friday afternoon to oppose any new legislative efforts to restrict abortion. We are reviewing our options in preparation for continuing the fight." "There is no right more sacred than life, and nothing more worthy of our strongest defense than the innocent unborn. Reynolds, a Republican, said Friday that she and GOP legislative leaders are "reviewing our options." That means if Iowa Republicans want to further restrict abortion, they'll likely need to pass a new law to do so. The court's 3-3 deadlock on Friday, with Justice Dana Oxley recused, means the district court's order is the final say on the matter, and the law will remain permanently blocked. constitutions.Ī district court declined to reinstate the law in December, and Reynolds appealed to the Iowa Supreme Court. Kim Reynolds had asked the court to reinstate the so-called fetal heartbeat law, which never took effect after it was passed in 2018, in the wake of major decisions last year limiting abortion protections under the Iowa and U.S. ![]() Iowa's long-blocked six-week abortion ban will remain permanently unenforceable after the state Supreme Court deadlocked on whether it should be revived. ![]()
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