SF 2029: Relating to the postfertilization age of an unborn child relative to an abortion, and making licensee discipline and civil penalties applicable

What it does

This bill amends Code chapter 146B (abortion —— postfertilization age) to provide that a physician shall not perform or attempt to perform an abortion upon a pregnant woman when it has been determined, by the physician performing the abortion or by another physician upon whose determination that physician relies, that the probable postfertilization age of the unborn child is or more weeks rather than or more weeks as provided in current law, unless, in the physician’s reasonable medical judgment, the pregnant woman has a condition which the physician deems a medical emergency, or the abortion is necessary to preserve the life of an unborn child.

Senate subcommittee · named January 20, 2022

• Sen. Jeff Edler (R)
• Sen. David D. Rowley (R) · david.rowley@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott (D) · sarah.trone.garriott@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 7 for, 8 against

For: Concerned Women For America of Iowa; Iowa Right to Life Committee; Iowans for LIFE; Lutheran Family Service; The Family Leader; The Family Leader Foundation; VALOR Iowa

Against: American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa (ACLU-IA); Episcopal Diocese of Iowa; IA Mental Health Planning Council; Interfaith Alliance of Iowa Action Fund; Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence; League of Women Voters of Iowa; Planned Parenthood Advocates of Iowa; Planned Parenthood North Central States

In plain words

1. January 13, 2022Filed in the Senate and sent to the Human Resources committee
2. January 20, 2022Senate subcommittee named: Edler, Rowley and Trone Garriott