****IA Senate bill to ban abortion****

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Progressoid:

I'll keep this brief: On Monday, you received the email below about a Senate bill to ban abortion, and it is moving quickly. If we don't act fast, we may not be able to stop it.

Please help fight back at the Capitol at 8 a.m. tomorrow when SSB 3143 will be heard in subcommittee. It is urgent that we send a strong, united message to the extreme lawmakers who wish to overturn Roe v. Wade and intrude on our private decision-making.

If you can make it, please RSVP here. Thank you for standing strong in support of reproductive rights!

In solidarity,


Jamie Burch-Elliott
Public Affairs Manager - Iowa
Planned Parenthood of the Heartland
Planned Parenthood Voters of Iowa

Just moments ago, the Iowa Senate introduced a bill that would ban safe, legal abortion in the state of Iowa. Today's bill is just another stunt by extreme lawmakers who feel entitled to tell women what to do with their own bodies.

If you're fed up with the anti-choice, anti-woman agenda, urge your legislators to put a stop to it now.

The Senate bill (SSB 3143) follows a House bill (HF 2162) introduced last week. Both attempt to ban nearly all safe, legal abortion by making it illegal to terminate a pregnancy the moment a fetal heartbeat is detected – before many women even know they are pregnant. With very narrow exception for medical emergency, this legislation would set reproductive rights back by decades and intentionally challenge Roe v. Wade.

Urge your lawmakers to do the right thing and resist these outrageous attempts to regulate a personal, private health care decision.

Iowa women should not be forced to suffer the dangerous health consequences of a petty, personal agenda, nor should Iowa taxpayers be forced to pay the cost of a divisive, lengthy legal battle. Let's make it known once and for all: Iowa will not go back on our reproductive rights.