Debate in the state Senate continued late into Tuesday night. The state House voted 56-34 largely along party lines to advance the measure following a roughly 12-hour day that saw the measure move through rounds of consideration and debate. It also includes exceptions for pregnancies resulting from rapes reported within 45 days and incest reported within 140 days. The bill includes exceptions for miscarriages, when the life of the pregnant woman is threatened and fetal abnormalities that would result in the infant’s death. Senate File 579 prohibits physicians from providing most abortions after early cardiac activity can be detected in a fetus or embryo, commonly as early as six weeks into pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant. The bill now heads to the Senate, where it must earn approval before it can move to Reynold’s desk for her signature. Kim Reynolds with the sole purpose of restricting the procedure in the state. Iowa’s state House passed a bill Tuesday night that would ban most abortions in the state as early as six weeks into pregnancy, acting quickly in the special session ordered by GOP Gov.
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