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Relating to prohibiting abortion in the state, and providing effective date provisions
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 8, 2022
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary This law would make it illegal for anyone to perform or try to perform an abortion in Iowa. It would go into effect if the U.S. Supreme Court or a change to the Constitution allows states to ban the procedure. State officials would also work to update other Iowa laws to match this new rule.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to prohibiting abortion in the state. Division I of the bill prohibits a person from knowingly performing, inducing, or attempting to perform or induce an abortion in this state. The bill defines “abortion” as the termination of a human pregnancy with the intent other than to produce a live birth or to remove a dead fetus.16 (prefiling legislative bills), prepare draft legislation for submission to the legislative services agency, as necessary, for consideration by the general assembly during the legislative session immediately following the effective date of division I of the bill, to implement conforming changes in the Code resulting from the enactment of division I of the bill. Division III of the bill provides that division I of the bill prohibiting abortion in this state takes effect days after the earlier of either: the issuance of a United States Supreme Court judgment in a decision overruling, wholly or partly, Roe v. 113 (1973), as modified by Planned Parenthood v. 833 (1992), thereby allowing the states of the United States to prohibit abortion; or the adoption of an amendment to the United States Constitution that, wholly or partly, restores to the states the authority to prohibit abortion.