Des Moines Register
An Iowa judge has permanently blocked a state law requiring women to wait 24 hours before getting an abortion.
In his order, filed Monday afternoon, District Court Judge Mitchell Turner held that the 2020 law is unconstitutional and cannot be enforced on two grounds: that the Legislature violated the "single-subject rule" of the Iowa Constitution when lawmakers passed the measure as an amendment to an unrelated bill; and that the law violates a 2018 Iowa Supreme Court decision that protects abortion rights.
The law was opposed in court by Planned Parenthood of the Heartland and the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa. Turner had previously issued a temporary injunction blocking the law just before it was to take effect July 1, 2020. Monday's order makes that injunction permanent. In his order, Turner also canceled a planned trial in the case, which was set for January.