Iowa’s Top Court Rejects Governor’s Request To Rehear Abortion Case

(Des Moines, IA) — The Iowa Supreme Court has denied the governor’s request to rehear an abortion case it decided less than a month ago. On June 17th, the Iowa Supreme Court overturned a 2018 ruling that said women had a fundamental right to an abortion under the Iowa Constitution. The U-S Supreme Court overturned Roe-V-Wade the next week. Last Friday, Republican Governor Kim Reynolds asked the Iowa Supreme Court to rehear the case involving a 24-hour waiting period for abortions and adopt a new standard that would make it harder to find that abortion restrictions are unconstitutional. The state court’s refusal to rehear that case means the 24-hour waiting period for abortions in Iowa is likely to go into effect late this week.