Iowa just passed a bill to make abortion no longer protected by the Iowa constitution. Do the executive orders or roe v wade override this?

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Iowa just passed a bill to make abortion no longer protected by the Iowa constitution. Do the executive orders or roe v wade override this?

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Answer 1

Roe v Wade is a hindrance to any legislation restricting abortion rights. Any state level legislation or constitutional passages protecting abortion rights is also a hindrance to restricting abortion rights.

Eliminating either is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for any plans to restrict abortion rights.

If Roe v Wade is overturned or undermined to some extent, any state with its own protections on the books would still be prevented from restricting abortions. Thus any state that would like to be able to do that would need to remove those state level protections, but would still need to wait for a ruling that runs counter to Roe v Wade in order to implement those policies.

(Or, more likely, would immediately implement those policies expecting to get sued over it and then take it to the Supreme Court hoping for a favorable ruling that goes against Roe)