|
To receive daily emails from Breaking Christian News to your inbox CLICK HERE
Good News: Iowa Judge Upholds 72-Hour Waiting Period before Abortion"The law makes it so that a doctor can't perform an abortion unless the mother has an opportunity to see her child through an ultrasound and hear the child's beating heart, giving her time to think about whether or not she wants to stop that beating heart. If that time of reflection changes just one mind, then the law has accomplished what it set out to do..." -Spokeswoman Brenna Smith
District Court Judge Jeffrey Farrell turned down the abortion giant in its request for a permanent injunction blocking the law, which requires mothers to consider what they're doing for 72 hours before getting an abortion. The law, which then-Gov. Terry Branstad signed in May before he became Ambassador to China, also bans abortions on pain-capable pre-borns after 20 weeks' gestation. It also requires an ultrasound to accurately determine gestational age and gives women the choice of seeing and/or hearing the ultrasound. Planned Parenthood of the Heartland (PPH) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) are appealing the law, which they call "malicious" and "anti-woman," to the Iowa Supreme Court. In the meantime, the law is on hold. PPH president Suzanna de Baca vowed to fight the law. "This unconstitutional disregard by lawmakers—including (current pro-life Republican) Gov. Kim Reynolds—for women and their right to abortion access, is unacceptable," she said. "We will fight with every available resource until we ensure that all women have access to the care they need." Waiting periods are on the books in most states... Continue reading here. 
To receive daily emails from Breaking Christian News to your inbox CLICK HERE
Other Recent Articles from Breaking Christian News Dutch Sheets: Good Friday Message & Communion 'I Began to Pray': Pastor Talks Down Crazed Man Who Points Gun Directly at Him, Leads 10 to Christ WATCH: Families at the Center of Washington State Transgender Sports Debate Stand Firm for Truth Levin: Ruling Against Birthright Citizenship Should Be a 'Slam-Dunk' for Supreme Court [Video] Colorado Appeals Court Reverses Tina Peters' Sentencing, Could This Lead to Her Freedom? March Job Growth Triples Expectations, Unemployment Rate Dips Artemis II Mission Pilot: 'We Need Jesus; Whether Here on Earth or Orbiting the Moon' Democrat Lawmaker Steps Down, Says Faith No Longer Aligns with Left's Agenda Trump Administration Charges 9 in Massive Massachusetts Fraud Scheme Pentagon Briefed Trump on Plan to Seize Uranium from Hands of Iranian Terrorist Regime President Trump Reassures Americans: Iran Operation Won't Be a Forever War Pam Bondi OUT as Attorney General Countdown for Historic Space Mission Artemis II Begins Trump Rolls Out a Plan to Back Farmers amid Rising Costs, Pledging 'Golden Age' Trump's Election Executive Order is Causing a Meltdown among Liberals |
Subscribe to
|
(Des Moines, IA)—[
All articles on this site and emails from BCN are copyrighted property of Breaking Christian News. Permission is given to link to, or share a BCN story if proper attribution is given to both the original writer and summarizer of the story. Breaking Christian News 2005-2019. All Rights Reserved.
Breaking Christian News is a division of Elijah List Publications, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Disclaimer: Articles and links, as well as the source articles linked to; do not necessarily reflect the opinion of Breaking Christian News.
| Home | Store | Subscribe | Facebook | Article Archive |