Iowa legislation · 91st General Assembly
Iowa HF666: A BILL FOR An Act relating to the Iowa human life protection Act, providing for civil actions and civil penalties, and including effective date provisions
Status: In committee, February 28, 2025
An Act relating to the Iowa human life protection Act, providing for civil actions and civil penalties, and including effective date provisions.
What the bill says
A bill FOR An Act relating to the Iowa human life protection Act, providing for civil actions and civil penalties, and including effective date provisions.
From the introduced text, February 28, 2025:
A BILL FOR An Act relating to the Iowa human life protection Act, providing for civil actions and civil penalties, and including effective date provisions. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: TLSB 2020YH (3) lh/ko H.F. Section 1. FINDINGS. 1. The general assembly acknowledges that all human beings are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, the foremost of which is the right to life. 2. The life of every human being begins at fertilization when a male sperm fuses with a female egg resulting in a single-celled human called a zygote. The union of the male and female deoxyribonucleic acid during fertilization restores the number of chromosomes needed to create a new human being. The Carnegie stages of human development, numbered one to twenty-three, is the accepted standard of embryological development used by biologists to describe the physical features of the human being, with the first stage marked by the moment of fertilization through sperm-egg fusion and the last stage at an estimated postfertilization age of eight weeks when over ninety percent of the more than four thousand five hundred named body structures are present. 3. The state of Iowa has a fundamental and compelling interest in protecting the life of every human being from the moment of fertilization. …
Sponsors
- Tom Shipley (R, 9) · primary sponsor
- Mark Thompson (R, 56)
- Samantha Fett (R, 22)
- Robert Henderson (R, 2)
- Mark Cisneros (R, 96)
- Thomas Gerhold (R, 84)
- Helena Hayes (R, 88)
- Sam Wengryn (R, 24)
- Dean Fisher (R, 53)
Latest actions
- : Introduced, referred to Judiciary. H.J. 476 .
Subjects: civil procedure, abortions
Common questions
- What is HF666?
- HF666 is a bill in the Iowa Legislature (91st General Assembly): A BILL FOR An Act relating to the Iowa human life protection Act, providing for civil actions and civil penalties, and including effective date provisions.
- What does HF666 do?
- In its own words: A bill FOR An Act relating to the Iowa human life protection Act, providing for civil actions and civil penalties, and including effective date provisions.
- What is the status of HF666?
- In committee as of February 28, 2025. Latest action: Introduced, referred to Judiciary. H.J. 476 . (February 28, 2025).
- Who sponsored HF666?
- Tom Shipley (R, 9), with 8 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for HF666?
- On the Iowa Legislature website: https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ba=HF+0666&ga=91
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