DES MOINES – Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds and Attorney General Brenna Bird this week asked the Iowa Supreme Court to uphold the “Fetal Heartbeat Law” passed this summer in the state Legislature which bans abortions after six weeks but so far hasn’t had much success in being implemented due to lawsuits.
Gov. Kim Reynolds released the following statement in response to a brief filed b Attorney General Brenna Bird with the Iowa Supreme Court seeking to uphold the Fetal Heartbeat Law:
“The people of Iowa and their elected representatives have spoken clearly and by a wider margin than before: it’s time for the Fetal Heartbeat Law to be upheld once and for all. The injunction placed on Iowa’s Fetal Heartbeat Law has already led to the innocent deaths of children. It needs to end. Every life is valuable and worth our state’s protection – no matter what stage of life they are in.”
Back in June of 2023, the Iowa Supreme Court upheld an injunction on a Fetal Heartbeat bill passed by Republicans in the Iowa Legislature, leaving the injunction in place. The bill, passed years ago but mired in lawsuits, would ban most abortions after 6 weeks.
Then in July of 2023, Reynolds decried the “inhumanity of abortion” and signed the “fetal heartbeat” bill into law, dramatically outlawing some abortions in the state mostly after 6 weeks (HF 732).
Immediately after the law was signed, a district court judge blocked the law from being implemented after a lawsuit from Planned Parenthood.
Across America, voters are shooting down attempts to ban abortion, as evidenced most recently in Ohio, where just this week voters enshrined the right to an abortion in the state’s constitution.
Let’s spend some more tax payer money on another losing cause. Geez, Kimmee, how you going to fund all those church schools if we run out of money because you spent it on lawyer fees?
They will not put it on the voting ballet as they would loose and they know it.
Reynolds is back on the sauce, and Bird is the stupidest heifer in a four-state area. They’re both embarrassments to the state of Iowa.