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March 11, 2024Des Moines, IA |  By: AP

Iowa House Republicans approve bill to criminalize death of "unborn person"

Republicans in Iowa’s House of Representatives approved a bill that would criminalize the death of an “unborn person” — over Democrats’ concerns about how it might apply to in vitro fertilization.

Iowa’s law currently outlines penalties for termination or serious injury to a “human pregnancy,” but the proposed bill would amend the language to pertain to “causing of death of, or serious injury to, an unborn person,” defined as “an individual organism … from fertilization to live birth.”

It’s one of many bills being considered by state Legislatures around the country that would expand legal and constitutional protections for embryos and fetuses, a long-time goal of the anti-abortion movement. The bill still would need to pass the state Senate and be signed by Governor Kim Reynolds to become law.