Undated — Vice President Kamala Harris is making an Iowa law that took effect this Monday morning part of her campaign against former President Donald Trump.
Iowa’s law bans abortion after fetal activity can be detected, which is around the sixth week of a pregnancy.
Luke Wolff, a spokesman for the Iowa Republican Party, says the Heartbeat Bill has exceptions for rape, incest, medical emergencies and fetal abnormalities — and Democrats continue to fearmonger Iowans into thinking they have to choose between protecting women or protecting babies. Trump held a rally in Minnesota on Saturday and called Harris “an absolute radical on abortion.”
Trump appointed three of the six US Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v Wade in 2022 and Trump has said the ruling leaves it up to states to decide abortion policy. For the past 40 years, the GOP’s national platform had called for federal restrictions on abortion, but Trump’s campaign led the development of the party platform for 2024 that says the abortion issue should be left to the states.
