One Democratic Senator argued the bill was attempting to grant a fetus personhood, a complicated legal status.
Iowa Senate Republicans have passed what has been dubbed the"personhood bill" which would define a fetus as an “unborn person” and could see an individual who causes the death of a fetus handed a life sentence.
An amendment to the bill offered by Republican Sen. Jake Chapman changed its language, including the switch from “terminates a human pregnancy” to “causes the death of an unborn person.” Causing"the death of an unborn person" was also raised from a class B to a class A felony, which is punishable by life in prison.
"Additionally what this amendment does is changes language that we’ve had in our current code regarding 'terminates a human pregnancy' to 'causes the death of an unborn person.' I think it's important that we call it what it is." Writing previously for Newsweek on the subject of abortion and the legal status of a fetus, Georgia Rep. Dar’shun Kendrick said:"It’s legally dubious. If a fetus is counted as a human being, it takes all our existing criminal law statutes to a whole other level.
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