Less than a month after a deadlocked Iowa Supreme Court left a six-week abortion ban unenforceable, lawmakers were set return to the State Capitol on Tuesday morning to consider a nearly identical set of restrictions on the procedure.
With large Republican majorities in both legislative chambers and a Republican governor who has decried “the inhumanity of abortion,” the new restrictions seemed very likely to pass.
“I believe the pro-life movement is the most important human rights cause of our time,” Gov.
Kim Reynolds said last week when she called the special session on abortion.
The new limits would add Iowa to a list of conservative states, which includes Indiana, North Dakota and South Carolina, that have passed abortion restrictions since the U.S. Supreme Court ended the national right to abortion last year.
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