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Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird in April paused the AG office’s practice of using a state victims compensation fund to pay for rape victims’ abortions, pausing payments to dozens of rape survivors

The legislation would increase the federal child tax credit, raising it above the level established in the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act. But it does include work requirements.

Reynolds and Bird say the Iowa Supreme Court should first determine which legal standard applies to abortion restrictions, then determine the new law, which is blocked by a temporary injunction, is constitutional.

Last week, I opined that the special session called to pass a new “heartbeat” bill, legislation to restrict abortion after …

Reynolds and Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird on Friday said the state has appealed a lower court’s decision to temporarily block enforcement of the so-called fetal heartbeat law.

Even though a judge’s ruling this week blocked enforcement of a new abortion law in Iowa, the process that will draft rules for the law’s implementation will continue.

When Gov. Kim Reynolds seized the spotlight from a half dozen Republican presidential contenders by signing a restrictive abortion measure into law at an event meant to showcase the candidates, she embraced her front-and-center role in the 2024 presidential election.

Gov. Kim Reynolds said she believes the Iowa Supreme Court will uphold new abortion restrictions that were passed into law last week by Iowa Republicans and blocked Monday by a state judge.

District Court Judge Joseph Seidlin granted a request Monday from Iowa abortion providers to halt enforcement of the new restrictions until its constitutionality can be considered by the courts.

Republicans point to recent election successes as proof that they are following the will of Iowa voters. But Democrats say this new law, which bans abortions after fetal cardiac activity is detected, and the next election will be different.

Instead, the Iowa Supreme Court should have let the 2018 fetal heartbeat law go into effect

While Reynolds signed the bill at the Christian conservative The Family Leader’s annual conference, a Polk County District Court Judge listened to a request to halt enforcement of the new abortion restrictions until its constitutionality can be considered by the courts.

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A hearing will be held in district court today, mere moments before Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds is scheduled to sign the abortion restrictions into law

Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, the Emma Goldman Clinic and the ACLU of Iowa announced Wednesday that they challenged the pending new law in Iowa district court.