(LifeSiteNews) — Iowa women will now have to visit a doctor to acquire the drugs necessary to kill their unborn baby under a new law signed by Governor Kim Reynolds.

The law is part of a package of bills the Republican governor signed this week, including restrictions on secret vaccination of minors and protections for religious liberty.

House File 2788 essentially restores the requirement for a woman to be examined by a doctor prior to receiving abortion drugs. This was a federal requirement until the Biden administration unilaterally removed any safeguards for the distribution of the abortion drugs. This relaxation of laws has allowed the drugs to flood the country, accounting now for around 66 percent of all abortions.

The law also requires the physician to provide the woman with information on the consequences of abortion drugs, beside the killing of her child.

However, the law does not do anything else to protect women or preborn babies from abortion. Women can kill their babies up to six weeks in the womb under the state’s heartbeat law.

However, since abortion drugs can be used for up to 10 weeks, and the state does not penalize women who kill their own babies, nothing stops her from taking the drugs home at six weeks and waiting a few more weeks or handing them off to friends.

Chemical abortion drugs are always dangerous, since they intend to kill innocent preborn babies. Additionally, at least 1 in 10 women experience adverse effects from the drugs, according to several studies.

Iowa Right to Life praised the bill in a statement on its Facebook page. “Iowa took another important step toward protecting women, unborn children, and parental rights,” the group wrote.

New laws protect parental and religious rights

Reynolds also signed a law that closed a “carveout” allowing for the secret vaccination of children. Minors will no longer be able to secretly get Hep B or HPV vaccines without their parents’ consent. This treats these two vaccines equally with other shots.

The American Cancer Society criticized Gov. Reynolds for doing away with secret vaccinations of kids.

“We share your goal of reducing our cancer rates,” lobbyist Jackie Cale wrote, according to the Iowa Capital Dispatch, before explaining why her group supports secret vaccinations:

Unfortunately this change to state law will reduce access to proven cancer prevention tools and move us in the wrong direction. We encourage you to increase access to safe and effective forms of cancer prevention like the HPV vaccine as well as improve education and awareness rather than restrict such efforts.

Another law, House Fil 571, establishes conscience protections for medical care providers.