{"id":165036,"date":"2017-04-19T14:04:26","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T18:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=165036"},"modified":"2017-04-20T13:37:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T17:37:15","slug":"iowa-gov-branstad-expected-sign-legislation-enacting-20-week-abortion-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/iowa-gov-branstad-expected-sign-legislation-enacting-20-week-abortion-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa legislature passes bill banning abortions after 20 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Tuesday, the Iowa Legislature passed Senate File 471, a bill that will, according to the Des Moines Register<\/a>, “ban abortions once a pregnancy reaches 20 weeks and it establishes\u00a0a three-day waiting period for women seeking any abortion.” Reportedly, abortion would be allowed solely to preserve the life or health of the mother, and not in cases of rape, incest, or fetal abnormality.<\/p>\n

Laws which allow for exceptions for the mother’s “health” are essentially wide\u00a0loopholes<\/a> that can include physical, emotional, mental, or even financial health. And while an exception preserving the life of the mother may sound reasonable, abortion is the intentional and direct killing of human life, not the secondary and unintentional result of a medical treatment<\/a>. The Association of Pro-Life Physicians<\/a> states it this way:<\/p>\n

When the life of the mother is truly threatened by her pregnancy, if both lives cannot simultaneously be saved, then saving the mother\u2019s life must be the primary aim.\u00a0 If through our careful treatment of the mother\u2019s illness the pre-born patient inadvertently dies or is injured, this is tragic and, if unintentional, is not unethical and is consistent with the pro-life ethic.\u00a0 But the intentional killing of an unborn baby by abortion is never necessary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Des Moines Register also reports that “Iowa would become the sixth state in the country to require a three-day waiting period for women seeking abortions.” Of the 27 states that\u00a0have abortion waiting periods, most are 24 hours.<\/p>\n

Governor Terry Branstad is expected to sign the legislation into law. However, the law itself seems to lack “teeth.” The Register notes:<\/p>\n

The Iowa House previously amended the bill to strip out criminal penalties, though it does allow women to pursue civil cases against providers who perform illegal abortions. It also allows physicians to be disciplined by the Iowa Board of Medicine if they’re found to be in violation of the law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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According to the Washington Post<\/a>,\u00a0“[a]t least 19 other states have similar 20-week bans, which are based on the disputed premise that a fetus can feel pain at that stage. Some have been stuck down by federal appeals courts, though the bulk of the bans are in effect.”<\/p>\n

While the premise of fetal pain by 20 weeks may be “disputed,”\u00a0multiple<\/a>\u00a0studies seem<\/a> to confirm this to be\u00a0the case, with the most recent<\/a>\u00a0study noting<\/a>\u00a0an “adult-like pattern of skin innervation\u00a0[]\u00a0established before the end of the first trimester, showing important intra- and inter-individual variations in nerve branches” along with “evidence for a differential vascularization of the male and female genital tracts concomitant with sex determination.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, the Iowa Legislature passed Senate File 471, a bill that will, according to the Des Moines Register, “ban abortions once a pregnancy reaches 20 weeks and it establishes\u00a0a three-day waiting period for women seeking any abortion.” Reportedly, abortion would be allowed solely to preserve the life or health of the mother, and not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[4,3473,9459],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nIowa legislature passes bill banning abortions after 20 weeks<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Iowa bill will ban abortions at 20 weeks and require 3-day waiting periods for abortion. 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