Biden Reacts After Iowa State Supreme Court Rules in Favor of 6 Week Abortion Ban

The justice writing for the majority said that abortion is not a fundamental right under the state’s constitution.
Biden Reacts After Iowa State Supreme Court Rules in Favor of 6 Week Abortion Ban
President Joe Biden boards Air Force One upon arrival at Francis S. Gabreski Airport in Westhampton Beach, N.Y., on June 29, 2024. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
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President Joe Biden criticized the Iowa abortion law that the state’s Supreme Court upheld in a decision on June 28. The president said the strict law puts women’s health and lives in “jeopardy.”

The Iowa Supreme Court’s decision, handed down on Friday, orders a lower court to dissolve an injunction blocking the law. The law implements a six-week abortion ban once a fetal heartbeat is detected, with exceptions for cases of rape, incest, and threats to the mother’s life.