DES MOINES – Attorneys for Planned Parenthood of the Heartland and the Emma Goldman Clinic want an Iowa judge to rule on a case involving the state’s new fetal heartbeat law.
The groups’ legal teams filed paperwork this week in a Motion for Summary Judgment, citing several factors for wanting the judge to make a decision. One being that justices on the Iowa Supreme Court ruled earlier this summer that the state’s 72-hour wait period for a woman to get an abortion is unconstitutional. The lawyers said in the new documents that because of that ruling, the judge overseeing the fetal heartbeat case should rule on the case. The lawyers for Planned Parenthood say that it’s a woman’s right to obtain an abortion.
The fetal heartbeat law was signed earlier this year by Gov. Kim Reynolds. Immediately, a judge put a stay on the law, meaning that it is not being enforced right now.
The judge in this case has not made a ruling on the new motion, and the state’s legal team defending the fetal heartbeat law has not filed paperwork.
