<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/iowa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Iowa</a> Governor Kim Reynolds signed a six-week <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/abortion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abortion</a> ban for her state into law Friday afternoon.</p>
<p>“This week, in a rare and historic special session, the Iowa legislature voted for a second time to reject the inhumanity of abortion and pass the fetal heartbeat law,” Reynolds, a Republican, said ahead of signing the bill at the Family Leadership Summit to a round of applause.</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/LifeNewsHQ/status/1679953932003741698" target="_blank" rel="noopener">She later added</a>: &#8220;All life is precious and worthy of the protection of our laws.&#8221;</p>
<p>The legislation bans abortion past when fetal cardiac activity can be detected, usually around six weeks of pregnancy, with exceptions for when the life of the mother is in danger, fetal abnormalities that would result in the baby&#8217;s death, rapes reported within 45 days, and incest reported within 140 days.</p>
<p>The bill passed Iowa&#8217;s Republican-controlled legislature earlier this week and goes into effect immediately.</p>
<p>“The voices of Iowans and their democratically elected representatives cannot be ignored any longer, and justice for the unborn should not be delayed,” Reynolds <a href="https://governor.iowa.gov/press-release/2023-07-11/gov-reynolds-statement-special-session-protect-life" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement at the time.</p>
<p>Abortion providers have already filed a legal challenge against the ban.</p>
<p>The bill emphasizes that the law is “not to be construed to impose civil or criminal liability on a woman upon whom an abortion is performed in violation of the division.”</p>
<p>However, the bill allows Iowa&#8217;s board of medicine leeway on deciding how abortion providers who violate the law should be punished.</p>
<p>Iowa&#8217;s &#8220;heartbeat&#8221; bill is the latest in a string of GOP-led state laws restricting abortion after the Supreme Court in June last year overturned <em>Roe vs. Wade</em>, the landmark 1973 decision that made abortion legal nationwide.</p>
<p>Abortion is currently <a href="https://apnews.com/article/abortion-poll-roe-dobbs-ban-opinion-fcfdfc5a799ac3be617d99999e92eabe?utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&amp;utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_source=Twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banned</a> throughout pregnancy in 14 states, which have different exceptions depending on the state.</p>
<p>In Georgia, abortion is banned once the unborn baby’s heartbeat can be detected, which is around six weeks. Similar “heartbeat” abortion bans in Ohio and South Carolina are stuck in court, so they are not currently in effect. Florida <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/13/florida-6-week-abortion-ban-bill-00091965" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> a “heartbeat” ban in April that will not take effect until the Florida Supreme Court delivers a ruling on an abortion case about a separate 15-week ban Governor Ron DeSantis approved last year.</p>
<p>Abortion procedures differ depending on how far along the mother is in her pregnancy.</p>
<p>In the first trimester, a woman can often <a href="https://www.uclahealth.org/medical-services/obgyn/family-planning/patient-resources/medical-abortion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">undergo</a> a medication abortion at home, which involves taking the drugs mifepristone and misoprostol to cause the uterus to shed its lining and start cramping and bleeding, expelling the baby.</p>
<p>For abortions later in the pregnancy, a surgical procedure called d<span class="mw-page-title-main">ilation and evacuation (D&amp;E) is often used, which</span> involves dilating the cervix and using a suction tube and sometimes forceps to remove the baby and all other pregnancy-related tissue.</p>
<p>Pro-life doctors have condemned the D&amp;E procedure as brutal to the unborn child, and pro-life groups have worked for years to raise awareness about how the procedure actually works.</p>
<p>The vast majority of Americans want some restrictions on abortion, even though most do not want abortion to be totally banned, new poll data show.</p>
<p>Only about a quarter of Americans say abortion should always be legal, according to a June <a href="https://apnews.com/article/abortion-poll-roe-dobbs-ban-opinion-fcfdfc5a799ac3be617d99999e92eabe?utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&amp;utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_source=Twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.</p>
<p>About 73% of people think abortion should be legal in the first six weeks of pregnancy, but that number drops to only half of Americans at 15 weeks, which is still just the beginning of the second trimester.</p>

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