Republican Congressman Steve King, of Iowa, introduced the first federal "heartbeat bill" on Friday, which would attempt to end legal abortion as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. A bill of this kind, which was modeled after a failed attempt in Ohio, amount to entire abortion bans and have been ruled unconstitutional in federal court. In the press release for the bill, King calls Roe v. Wade unconstitutional and says “if a heartbeat is detected, the baby is protected.”
