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flag Iowa lawmakers introduced a bill on Feb. 6, 2026, defining a fetus as a person from fertilization, making abortion a criminal act with murder penalties, except in life-threatening cases.

flag Iowa lawmakers introduced House File 2316 on February 6, 2026, proposing to criminalize abortion by defining an unborn child as a person from fertilization, subjecting fetuses to criminal and civil laws. flag The bill would treat abortion as murder, allowing wrongful-death lawsuits and extending homicide penalties to unborn children, with exceptions for miscarriages and life-saving medical procedures for the mother. flag If passed, it would be the strictest abortion law in Iowa’s history. flag The measure is under review in the legislature with no vote scheduled.

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