heartbeat bill

The arguments before the justices did not deal directly with the state’s ban on abortions after six weeks. Instead, they centered on the unique mechanism in the law that gives state officials no role in enforcement.

Rep. Webster Barnaby filed a proposal dubbed the "Florida Heartbeat Act" that would block physicians from performing abortions if there is a “detectable fetal heartbeat."

Republican legislators sent Iowa's governor a bill early Wednesday that would ban most abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, usually around six…