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>> STEVE, WE’RE LOOKING AT SOME NEW JUSTICES ON THE BEH APPOINTED BY GOVERNOR REYNOLDS. FOUR YEARS AGO THE IOWA SUPREME COURT RULED OUR STATE CONSTITUTION DOES PROVIDE A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO ABOIORT BUT THIS CASE COULD OVERTURN THAT RULG. >> A 2020 STATE LAW AT THE CENTER OF A LEGAL BATTLE. THE LAW WOULD REQUIRE WOMEN TO WAIT 24 HOURS AFTER THEIR FIRST APPOINTMENT BEFORE GETTINGN ABORTION. >> LOWER COURTS HAVE ALREADY RULED AGAINST THIS MEDICALLY UNNECESSARY WAITING PERIOD, SAYING IT INDISCRIMINATELY SUBJECTS ALL WOMEN TO AN UNJUSTIFIED DELAY IN MEDAL CARE. >> BUT MAGGIE DEWITTE WITH PULSE LIFE ADVOCATES HOPES THE STATE SUPREME COURT RULES DIFFERENTLY. >> WHEN WE’RE TALKING ABOUT A DECISION THAT IS AS MONUMENT AS THE LIFE OF YOUR UNBORN CHILD, AND WHETHER TO CONTUEIN THAT LIFE OR NOT, IT ONLY MAKES COMMON SENSE THAT WE GIVE ATTH WOMAN SOME TIME AND PAUSE TO REALLY THINK THROUGH ALL HER CHOICES, ALL HER OIONS.PT OTHERS SAY THIS RULING COULD HAVE LARGER IMCTPA >> IF THE IOWA SUPREME COURT OVTUERRNS THE STEAT CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION RFO SAFE AND LEGAL ABORTION, LAWMAKERS WHO CONTROL THE STATE GOVERNMENT WOULD HAVE THE UNCHECKED AUTHORITTOANY ABORTION. >> SHE SAYS FEDERAL LAW WOULD STILL PROTECT ABORTION ACCESS BUT THAT COULD BE OVERTURNED THIS SUMMER IN A NEW U.S. SUPREME COURT RULING. THAT WOULD LEAVE ALL ABORTION DECISIONS UP TO STATE LAWMAKER >> FEDERAL ABORTION PROTECTIONS HANG BY THADRE >> THAT IS WHY THE COURT CASE THAT WE HEARD ORAL ARGUMENTS HERE TODAY IN IOWA IS SO IMPORTANT BECAUSE THAT WILL MECO BACK TO IOWA, FOR US TO DETERMINE HOW BEST TO RELAGU AND SAFEGUARD WOMEN AND FAMILIES IN REGARDS TO ABTIONOR >> IN 2018, THE COURT RULEA 72-HOUR WAITING PERIOD -- WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. A RU