Iowa’s strict abortion law will take effect Monday, banning most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy and before many women know they are pregnant
FILE - Abortion-rights protesters attend a rally, June 24, 2022, in Des Moines, Iowa. Iowa’s strict abortion law will take effect Monday, July 29, 2024, banning most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy and before many women know they are pregnant. will take effect Monday, preventing most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant.
Iowa will join more than a dozen states where abortion access has been sharply curbed in the two years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Currently,have near-total bans at all stages of pregnancy and three states ban abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. That’s roughly when a fetal heartbeat can be detected.by the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa, Planned Parenthood North Central States and the Emma Goldman Clinic.
In June, Ruth Richardson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood North Central States, also said the organization has spent the last year making “long-term regional investments” in preparation for this outcome, including expanding facilities in Mankato, Minnesota, and in Omaha, Nebraska, — both cities near Iowa.
“A lot of people don’t know this happened,” Sharp said of the stricter law. “So those are hard conversations that we’re having and have been having and are going to continue to have to have.”
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