We moved to equally protect all here in Iowa. But the effort was blocked by the sorts of Republicans who support these immoral, unconstitutional, irrational, illogical, lawless, and ultimately unfruitful "fetal pain" laws.
If Iowa somehow nanaged (despite itts Democrat Senate) to pass a law that banned abortion from the moment of conception (which we both agree is the only just law possible), it would be struck down by the courts and we’d be back to the status quo ante. We need to pass a law that will be upheld by 5 SCOTUS Justices and will chip away at Roe v. Wade. Trent Frank’s bill, which prohibits abortion even prior to viability and which does not have an exception for the “health of the mother” (a clause that makes abortion laws generally ineffectual because a woman can always get a letter from a doctor saying that having a baby would damage her “mental health”), would be, if upheld by SCOTUS, a HUGE step towards ending abortion in America.