WATCH: Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds Signs Historic Fetal Heartbeat Bill Into Law In Challenge To State Supreme Court

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds (R-IA) signed the legislature's fetal heartbeat bill into law banning all abortions after the detection of a pulse, effectively about six weeks after conception. The bill does include exceptions to protect mothers' lives and for rape and incest.

Reynolds signed the bill into law shortly after accepting an award from The Family Leader in Des Moines at 'The Summit,' the first presidential forum of the 2024 Republican primary. The Iowa legislature initially passed this law in 2018, when it was struck down shortly after being signed into effect. However, in the wake of the overturn of Roe v. Wade, in what ABC News called "a rare, 14-hour special legislative session," lawmakers met and redrafted the law. 

A legal challenge filed Wednesday by the ACLU of Iowa, Planned Parenthood North Central States, and the Emma Goldman Clinic will be in court soon thereafter to seek to again throw out the law passed by an even greater margin than the original bill.

Reynolds had initially asked the court to reinstate the 2018 law, however, the state supreme court deadlocked and she opted to call the legislature back into session to address the issue.

“The Iowa Supreme Court questioned whether this legislature would pass the same law they did in 2018, and today they have a clear answer,” Reynolds said in a statement issued Tuesday. “Justice for the unborn should not be delayed.”

"We read in scripture that the author of life wants to give a future and a hope to all of his children, and who are we to stand in his way? With the self-evident answer to that question in mind, I have never been prouder to once again sign a bill into law."