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There had been a proposal for a legislatively-referred state constitutional amendment saying there was no right to abortion. It passed in the previous session of the legislature but needed to pass in two sequential sessions to be on the ballot. The 2024 Iowa legislature has now adjourned without doing so, and it’s therefore no longer in the works.
The reason it was first considered was that the state supreme court declared in 2018 that the state constitution secures a “right” to abortion. This started a movement in the state legislature for a state constitutional amendment to nullify it.
However, on June 17, 2022, the Iowa Supreme Court reversed itself. Therefore, the state amendment was longer understood as something that needed to be pursued in order to allow the legislature to consider various kinds of abortion legislation.
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