Iowa’s Heartbeat Law: Injunction Status
IOWA’s Heartbeat Law is headed to court. The injunction was filed by Planned Parenthood and Save The 1 joined the suit as an interested party.
Our Hearts Beat Too
Iowa’s Heartbeat Bill, prohibiting abortion after the point when a heartbeat may be detected passed recently and the governor signed it into law. However, part of the law is illogical and inconsistent.
There are exceptions for rape, if reported within 45 days, and incest, if reported within 160days. Mind you, that is almost 23 weeks! A few babies have survived birth at that age. This is particularly horrifying. There is also an exception for fetal anomaly or a diagnosis by the attending physician, aka the abortionist, that the child –with a beating heart- has a condition incompatible with life. A detectable heartbeat is the definitive sign of life. Only when the heart stops, is one declared dead, which is to say, “having a condition incompatible with life.”
The Court’s Pro-Abortion Stance
Planned Parenthood, the world’s largest and most prolific abortion vendors, have filed an injunction against the law in the state of Iowa. This means the law cannot take effect as scheduled until the Iowa courts decide if it meets with their approval. The same state court that just decided that a 72hour wait for abortion was an undue burden on a woman seeking to end her child’s life.
Since Planned Parenthood is taking the law to court, Save The 1 has filed as an interested party to the case. Our organization is made of the very people called exceptions in the text of the law. We made it. We were born from rape or incest. Some of our members conceived children as a result of sexual assault. Other members are parents of those who were given a poor in-utero diagnosis or the, now grown children, whose parents were told they must abort! Save The 1 represents hundreds of this people group here in the US and many more around the world. Our hearts beat like anyone else’s.
Our claim is that the exceptions in this law are unjust and do not afford equal protection under the law. We will ask the judge to utilize the severability clause to delete the exceptions and provide equal protection to all children with a detectable heartbeat. We will ask that the law be upheld to provide protection to every single child with a beating heart without regard to the circumstances of their conception or their health status.
Will You Stand With Us?
We will represent the prolife position against abortion across the board, 100% on August 17th2018 in Iowa. Our organization is totally volunteer, with no paid staff at all. Our development chair dematerialized recently. So, if you are willing to stand with us, we would really appreciate the support.
We will need airfare and ground transportation for a few board members. Depending on the available flights, there might be a need for lodging for one night, as well. If you are led to help financially, please go to our donation page and give online, or let us know if you can drop a check in the mail.
If you are in the area, or you want to join us at the courthouse, please get in touch with us by every means possible. Social media, Facebook, Twitter, email, phone, however you like. You can contact me directly too. We’d love to have you with us. It means a great deal to have people who value our lives and those of our people group. So-called pro-life leadership would happily throw away lives, even when it is illogical and inexpedient to do so. We are apparently considered less worthy of protection.
The governor and her legal council must defend the law as written and signed, with the exceptions. They cannot even stand with us because they chose abortion for our people group.
Heartbreaking!
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Perhaps, we will have favor with prayerful people who will lift up the case. Maybe some will help meet our needs as we travel to speak for those who literally have no one else to speak for them.