Iowa Passes Six-Week Abortion Ban, Faces Immediate Legal Challenge
- Iowa's Republican-controlled legislature passed a bill banning most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy.
- The law prohibits abortion once fetal cardiac activity is detected, usually around six weeks, with limited exceptions.
- Republican Governor Kim Reynolds plans to sign the bill into law on Friday.
- Reproductive rights groups immediately filed a lawsuit seeking to block the law.
- If enacted, the six-week ban would give Iowa one of the strictest abortion laws in the country.














































