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Des Moines, Iowa — The Iowa Supreme Court today reversed an important district court decision protecting young Iowans access to critical sex education and teen pregnancy prevention programming.
The unconstitutional legislation would have mandated a 24-hour mandatory delay before a patient could access abortion and also required an additional and medically unnecessary visit to a health center, delaying many abortions by weeks.
The ACLU of Iowa was one of several civil rights and employment rights organizations and law professors to file an amicus brief in support of the City of Waterloo's "Fair Chance/Ban the Box" ordinance.
This statement on Gov. Reynolds signing SF342 into law can be attributed to Mark Stringer, ACLU of Iowa Executive Director.
"This law takes our state in the wrong direction.
Statement from ACLU of Iowa Executive Director Mark Stringer on the "defined concepts" law, House File 802, which goes into effect July 1, 2021:
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