If the language in the amendment is approved by the House and Senate this legislative session, and again during the 2023-25 session, the amendment could go to the Iowa voters in 2024 for ratification by a simple majority, The Gazette reported.
The proposed amendment in Iowa mirrors a successful recent effort in Louisiana, where voters in Nov. 2020 approved a similar amendment to prevent Louisiana’s courts from finding a “right to abortion,” or to public abortion funding, in the state’s constitution.
State Senator Katrina Jackson, a pro-life Democrat, authored the Louisiana amendment when she was a state representative, along with dozens of co-sponsors from both parties.
Known as the “Love Life Amendment,” the measure, which passed with nearly a two-thirds majority, updated the Louisiana constitution to state that “nothing in this constitution shall be construed to secure or protect a right to abortion or require the funding of abortion.”
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