The 4-3 decision will have sweeping consequences across the Midwest.
The law includes exceptions for the life of the pregnant woman and fetal abnormalities that would result in the infant’s death—allowances that medical professionals say are rarely implemented in practice. Iowa ’s ban also allows abortion in the case of rape or incest, but only when reported within 45 or 140 days, respectively.
This test comes from a 2015 case where the court had ruled, in accordance with some federal findings, that abortion restrictions were unconstitutional if they imposed a “substantial obstacle in the path of a woman seeking an abortion before the fetus attains viability.' In his majority opinion, Justice Matthew McDermott wrote, 'Stated simply, we can find no principled basis under our due process precedents to apply the heightened scrutiny of an undue burden test to abortion.
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