Posted on 04/01/2020 4:04:11 PM PDT by Morgana
DES MOINES, Iowa —
A Johnson County judge ordered Wednesday that some abortions can continue during the COVID-19 outbreak after Gov. Kim Reynolds ordered the procedures to stop.
A lawsuit against Reynolds was filed by the ACLU after the governor included abortions as elective and non-emergency procedure, requiring them to be halted during the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to a combined statement from Planned Parenthood North Central States, ACLU of Iowa and the Emma Goldman Clinic, a judge ordered an agreement between the parties that allows physicians to make case-by-case decisions on whether patients will receive abortions.
The statement said Planned Parenthood will resume seeing patients for in-clinic procedures.
“We are all hoping for the quick end to this pandemic crisis and, in the meantime, we want to reassure patients that if they need to seek abortion or other reproductive health care services, they should contact Planned Parenthood to consult with a health care provider,” the statement said. “We, like all health care providers, must be focused on our patients right now and today’s agreement allows us to do so.”
Reynolds originally said the halt on abortions was intended to conserve medical equipment, which is in short supply due to COVID-19.
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We continue to risk His wrath.
Just wait. Wait for them to catch Covid19
The desperation of the cult of death...
Abortion must one heck of a lucrative bidness.
PP is extremely militant.
Sad that your life may depend on the ruling of a judge and how he’s feeling that day.
Ghouls, all of them.
“they should contact Planned Parenthood to consult with a health care provider,”
‘Health care provider’ and ‘Planned Parenthood’ should not be in the same sentence.
Hey Judge, how about "the right of the people peaceably to assemble"?
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