Republicans in Iowa Set to Kick Off a Special Session to Push a 6-Week Abortion Ban

Iowa Republicans are preparing to use a special legislative session kicking off Tuesday to advance a ban on most abortions after six weeks. If it is enacted, the measure would make the key presidential state among the strictest in regulating reproductive rights. 

The special session will convene just days ahead of a key political summit held by an influential evangelical Christian group that is certain to keep the divisive issue in plain view in the state.

The bill proposed by Iowa Republicans, who control the Legislature, would ban abortions at the sixth week of pregnancy — or when, in some cases, fetal pulses can first be heard via ultrasound.

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