Iowa legislation · 91st General Assembly
Iowa HF453: A BILL FOR An Act relating to the treatment of an unborn child for the purposes of damages for wrongful death, the defense of compulsion, homicide and related crimes, and assault, making penalties applicable, and including effective date and applicability provisions
Status: In committee, February 18, 2025
An Act relating to the treatment of an unborn child for the purposes of damages for wrongful death, the defense of compulsion, homicide and related crimes, and assault, making penalties applicable, and including effective date and applicability provisions.
What the bill says
A bill FOR An Act relating to the treatment of an unborn child for the purposes of damages for wrongful death, the defense of compulsion, homicide and related crimes, and assault, making penalties applicable, and including effective date and applicability provisions.
From the introduced text, February 18, 2025:
A BILL FOR An Act relating to the treatment of an unborn child for the purposes of damages for wrongful death, the defense of compulsion, homicide and related crimes, and assault, making penalties applicable, and including effective date and applicability provisions. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: TLSB 1646YH (5) lh/ko H.F. Section 1. PURPOSES. The general assembly finds and declares that the purposes of this Act are all of the following: 1. To recognize that the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States requires that "No state shall...deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." 2. To fully recognize that innocent human life, created in the image of God, should be equally protected under the law from fertilization to natural death. 3. To ensure that the rights of unborn children are protected from homicide and assault by the same criminal and civil laws protecting all other persons. 4. To recognize that all persons potentially subject to such laws are entitled to due process protections. 5. To ensure that pregnant women are protected under the law from being pressured to abort a child. 6. To remove provisions that may allow a person to solicit, command, aid, or counsel a pregnant woman to abort a child. Sec. 2. …
Sponsors
- Zachary Dieken (R, 5) · primary sponsor
- Craig Johnson (R, 67)
- Samantha Fett (R, 22)
- Mark Cisneros (R, 96)
- Dean Fisher (R, 53)
- Charley Thomson (R, 58)
- John Wills (R, 10)
Latest actions
- : Introduced, referred to Judiciary. H.J. 346 .
Subjects: assault, pregnancy, homicide, wrongful death
Common questions
- What is HF453?
- HF453 is a bill in the Iowa Legislature (91st General Assembly): A BILL FOR An Act relating to the treatment of an unborn child for the purposes of damages for wrongful death, the defense of compulsion, homicide and related crimes, and assault, making penalties applicable, and including effective date and applicability provisions.
- What does HF453 do?
- In its own words: A bill FOR An Act relating to the treatment of an unborn child for the purposes of damages for wrongful death, the defense of compulsion, homicide and related crimes, and assault, making penalties applicable, and including effective date and applicability provisions.
- What is the status of HF453?
- In committee as of February 18, 2025. Latest action: Introduced, referred to Judiciary. H.J. 346 . (February 18, 2025).
- Who sponsored HF453?
- Zachary Dieken (R, 5), with 6 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for HF453?
- On the Iowa Legislature website: https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ba=HF+0453&ga=91
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