Iowa

At the Evangelical Christian Family Leadership Summit. Iowa governor Kate Reynolds signed a six week abortion ban, calling it a "heartbeat bill".

One of religious conservatives' anti-abortion lies is that a six week old fetus has a heart and a heartbeat ...

‘Heartbeat bills’: Is there a fetal heartbeat at six weeks of pregnancy?

[...] according to experts, the term “fetal heartbeat” is misleading and medically inaccurate.

“While the heart does begin to develop at around six weeks, at this point the heart as we know it does not yet exist,” said Dr. Ian Fraser Golding, a pediatric and fetal cardiologist at Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego. Instead, at six weeks, the embryo will develop a tube that generates sporadic electrical impulses that eventually coordinate into rhythmic pulses, he said ...

But that's ok, because this bill has nothing to do with medical facts or science. It certainly has nothing to with what Iowans want either: a 2/3 majority of Iowans are pro-choice ...



Nope, this is about religion. The bill, like the many other "heartbeat" abortion bans passed in Red states, is about a small minority of religious extremists (less than a third of the country) forcing their questionable beliefs on the other two-thirds of Americans, including other Christians. They have the power because of the religious conservatives on the Supreme Court, and that's all that matters to them. This is what theocracies like Iran do to their people. Can our own "morality police" be far behind?