Iowa’s Supreme Court Friday ruled there is no state constitutional right to an abortion. The decision reverses a 2018 state Supreme Court decision that affirmed a state constitutional right to abortion.
In Friday’s decision overturning that right to abortion, Iowa Supreme Court Justice Edward Mansfield wrote, “Although we overrule (the 2018 decision), and thus reject the proposition that there is a fundamental right to an abortion in Iowa’s Constitution subjecting abortion regulation to strict scrutiny, we do not at this time decide what constitutional standard should replace it. ”
Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds praised the state Supreme Court decision ending Iowa’s state constitutional right to abortion.
“Today’s ruling is a significant victory in our fight to protect the unborn,” Gov. Reynolds said in a statement. “The Iowa Supreme Court reversed its earlier 2018 decision, which made Iowa the most abortion-friendly state in the country. Every life is sacred and should be protected, and as long as I’m governor that is exactly what I will do.”
In Friday’s decision, Justice Mansfield wrote that the state Supreme Court was not blind to the pending U.S. Supreme Court opinion on Roe vs. Wade.
“That case could alter the federal constitutional landscape established by Roe and Casey,” Justice Mansfield wrote. “While we zealously guard our ability to interpret the Iowa Constitution independently of the Supreme Court’s interpretations of the Federal Constitution, the opinion (or opinions) in that case may provide insights that we are currently lacking.”
Iowa’s Supreme Court Chief Justice Susan Christensen dissented from the majority ruling, writing, “I cannot join the majority’s decision to overrule Planned Parenthood of the Heartland v. Reynolds (PPH II), 915 N.W.2d 206 (Iowa 2018), because I do not believe any special justification ‘over and above the [majority’s] belief that the precedent was wrongly decided’ warrants such a swift departure from the court’s 2018 decision.”
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Looks like Iowa will again be growing more things than Corn,,,political or otherwise. They will be growing THE PEOPLE who grow the corn, domestically grown which makes illegally importing others to do it a mute argument. Illegal immigration was all about replacing the taxable 60 million Democrat aborted Americans whose loss in population and ability to tax more of made us less competitive with nations like China who is overpopulated to the point that their people will sell themselves into socialist slavery just to be able to eat a meal or live in a locked down concrete government cage called government housing. Life is not sacred in China like it used to be here until we were taught we could play god in life or death decisions about innocent life in the womb. No surprise tons of guilty lives of crime were created or imported in its place, our current state of American affairs proves it is not good to try to fool mother nature, or the Creator and keeper of our Providence.
Providence: – “Literally means foresight, but is generally used to denote God’s preserving and governing all things by means of second causes “
Your laws ignore our deepest needs,
Your words are empty air.
You’ve stripped away our heritage,
You’ve outlawed simple prayer.
Now gunshots fill our classrooms,
And precious children die.
You seek for answers everywhere,
And ask the question “Why?”
You regulate restrictive laws,
Through legislative creed.
And yet you fail to understand,
That God is what we need!
“Men and women are three-part beings. We all consist of body, mind, and spirit. When we refuse to acknowledge a third part of our make-up, we create a void that allows evil, prejudice, and hatred to rush in and wreak havoc. Spiritual presences were present within our educational systems for most of our nation’s history. Many of our major colleges began as theological seminaries. This is a historical fact. What has happened to us as a nation? We have refused to honor God, and in so doing, we open the doors to hatred and violence.
By: Darrell Scott, the father of Rachel Scott, a victim of the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colorado, was invited to address the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee.
Have the Dems sent out the hit squad yet?
GOOD on iowa..