In a news release, Iowa's #Republican Gov. #KimReynolds said #Iowa will not participate this summer in a federal program that gives $40 per month to each child in a #LowIncome family to help with #FoodCosts while school is out
The Nobles of Iowa moved to blue Minnesota. The Huckinses of Oregon moved to red Missouri. Their separate journeys, five weeks apart, illustrate the fracturing of America.
👉🏼👉🏼”#Iowa judge on Monday temporarily blocked the state’s new ban on most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, just days after Gov. #KimReynolds 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.” #legal
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R-IA; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Reynolds) is calling the legislature back for a special session next week to pass abortion restrictions after the state Supreme Court deadlocked on a 6-week ban last month, keeping the procedure legal in the state.
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Texas denied abortions to these women when their lives were in danger. Now they're suing the state.
Though speaking out requires them to relive losing their wanted pregnancies, four plaintiffs told The 19th they're doing it because they know they're "not the only ones like this."
#Iowa Supreme Court declines to reinstate strict #abortion limits, but a new law could be coming
Abortion will remain legal in Iowa after the state's high court declined Friday to reinstate a law that would have largely banned the procedure, rebuffing #Republican Gov. #KimReynolds and, for now, keeping the conservative state from joining others with strict abortion limits.
In a rare 3-3 decision, the court upheld a 2019 district court ruling that blocked the law.
[Analysis] Two Families Got Fed Up With Their States’ Politics. So They Moved Out. (www.nytimes.com)
The Nobles of Iowa moved to blue Minnesota. The Huckinses of Oregon moved to red Missouri. Their separate journeys, five weeks apart, illustrate the fracturing of America.