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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Hannah Fingerhut

Abortion in Iowa is legal again, for now, after a judge blocks new restrictions

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

An Iowa judge on Monday temporarily blocked the state’s new ban on most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, just days after Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the measure into law.

That means abortion is once again legal in Iowa up to 20 weeks of pregnancy while the courts assess the new law’s constitutionality.

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