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Anti-abortion activists participate in the 2020 “March for Life” rally near Capitol Hill in Washington. Organizers of the March for Life, the anti-abortion movement’s preeminent annual event, are asking their supporters nationwide not to gather in Washington in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and political unrest.
Iowa House Republicans are kicking off the 2021 legislative session by reigniting the debate over whether or not the Iowa Constitution guarantees the right to an abortion.
A draft of anti-abortion constitutional amendment passed an Iowa subcommittee by a vote of 2-to-1 on Tuesday, aiming to overturn a 2018 Iowa Supreme Court decision guaranteeing abortion as a right. The draft states the amendment would change the Iowa Constitution to, “not recognize, grant or secure a right to an abortion or require the public funding of abortion.”