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Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to the right to reproductive care
Sponsored by Rep. Jerome Amos Jr. (D), Rep. Austin Baeth (D), Rep. Sean Bagniewski (D), Rep. Timi M. Brown-Powers (D), Rep. Jeff Cooling (D), Rep. Ken Croken (D), Rep. Tracy A. Ehlert (D), Rep. Daniel Gosa (D), Rep. Rob Johnson (D), Rep. Jennifer Konfrst (D), Rep. Bob Kressig (D), Rep. Monica Kurth (D), Rep. Mary Lee Madison (D), Rep. Heather Matson (D), Rep. Larry McBurney (D), Rep. Brian Meyer (D), Rep. Rick L. Olson (D), Rep. Dr. Megan L. Srinivas (D), Rep. Aime Wichtendahl (D), Rep. Ross Wilburn (D), Rep. Elizabeth Wilson (D), Rep. Adam Zabner (D)
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 28, 2025
- Stopped: Approved in committeeDid not pass
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: Passes again next General AssemblyThe same wording, after an election
- Next: Voters decideOn the next general election ballot
Did not pass It didn’t pass both chambers before the General Assembly ended. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary This resolution would add a new right to the Iowa Constitution that protects a person's freedom to make their own private reproductive decisions. It covers things like prenatal care, birth, contraception, and abortion care, making these fundamental rights that the state cannot easily interfere with. However, the state could still regulate abortion care after a fetus is viable, as long as it does not stop an abortion needed to protect the life or health of the pregnant person.1
Read the official explanation
10 reproductive care specifying: 1. The state shall not deny or interfere with an individual’s reproductive freedom and an individual’s most private decisions concerning reproductive freedom shall not be infringed. Reproductive freedom includes but is not limited to prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, contraception, sterilization, abortion care, miscarriage management, and infertility care. 2. An individual’s right to reproductive freedom shall not be denied, burdened, or infringed upon unless justified by a compelling state interest achieved by the least restrictive means. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection, the state may regulate the provision of abortion care after fetal viability, provided that under no circumstance shall the state prohibit an abortion that, in the professional judgment of an attending health care professional, is medically indicated to protect the life or physical or mental health of the pregnant individual. The joint resolution, if adopted, would be published and then referred to the next general assembly (92nd) for adoption, before being submitted to the electorate for ratification.
Lobbying
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Tried before
This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.
- HJR 9 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to the right to r…90th General Assembly · In committee · same titleCleared committee
- SJR 2001 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to the right to r…90th General Assembly · In committee · very similarCleared committee
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