(Des Moines, IA) -- Lawyers for Governor Kim Reynolds are filing a motion with the Iowa Supreme Court over the latest fetal heartbeat law ruling. A Polk County judge this week ruled there's no path to lifting a 2019 injunction that blocked the law from taking effect. The issue landed in court after the U-S Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
The Iowa law, passed in 2018, would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected.
Planned Parenthood of the Heartland v. Reynolds filed suit against the Iowa law later that year. A court put the law on hold based on a case that had found a state constitutional right to an abortion. Earlier this year, ADF attorneys helped persuade the Iowa Supreme Court to overturn that case, so Reynolds is now appealing to ask the court to lift the injunction.