Legal experts believe 20-week bans are unconstitutional because they undermine a key provision of Roe v. Wade, which established the right to an abortion until fetal viability, determined by doctors to be around 24 weeks’ gestation.
Rep. Marsha Blackburn is perhaps best known for leading a congressional “witch hunt” into a discredited anti-abortion propaganda campaign that falsely alleged Planned Parenthood profited from legal donations of fetal tissue.
Attorneys for Planned Parenthood of the Heartland argued that the forced waiting period poses an undue burden on a pregnant patient’s right to due process under the Iowa Constitution.
In Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America, editors Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding call for intersectional resistance in the age of Trump.
