{"id":172801,"date":"2017-10-04T15:12:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T19:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=172801"},"modified":"2017-10-04T15:12:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T19:12:31","slug":"iowa-judge-rules-3-day-abortion-waiting-period-constitutional-planned-parenthood-aclu-will-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/iowa-judge-rules-3-day-abortion-waiting-period-constitutional-planned-parenthood-aclu-will-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa judge says 3-day abortion waiting period constitutional; Planned Parenthood, ACLU will appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iowa district judge Jeffrey Farrell ruled this week that the state’s recently-enacted 72-hour abortion waiting period is constitutional, because it does not place an “undue burden” on women seeking abortion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Farrell wrote in his ruling<\/a>, “There is no question that the second trip will have some impact on low-income women and those who have to drive longer distances.\u00a0However, the fact that there is some burden is not dispositive if the act does not place a substantial obstacle in the way of women getting an abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Challenging the law are Planned Parenthood<\/a> of the Heartland and the ACLU of Iowa, who have vowed to appeal the judge’s ruling to the Iowa Supreme Court. According to The Globe Gazette<\/a>, “Twenty-seven other states already have enacted waiting periods, according to information from the Guttmacher Institute… though Iowa joins only a handful of states that have extended that time frame to three days.”<\/p>\n

LifeSiteNews notes<\/a> that “[t]he law… also bans abortions on pain-capable pre-borns after 20 weeks\u2019 gestation. It also requires an ultrasound to accurately determine gestational age and gives women the choice of seeing and\/or hearing the ultrasound.” Planned Parenthood and the ACLU have called the law “malicious” and “anti-woman,” according to LifeSite.<\/p>\n