UPDATE: The Iowa House Human Resources Committee meets Thursday at 2pm to take up a bill passed by the Iowa Senate last year that would ban the sale of fetal tissue resulting from abortion.
Committee members are poised to attempt in committee to amend that bill to add in the language of the Senate's ban on abortions where a "fetal heartbeat" can be detected, which was passed this year.
The committee meeting takes place Thursday at Room 103 of the state capitol (the old Iowa Supreme Court chambers).
If passed by the committee, the bill would need to be approved by the Iowa House and the changes approved by the Iowa Senate before the bill could go to Governor Kim Reynolds.
In a statement, Planned Parenthood of Iowa calls the proposal an "unpopular and unconstitutional policy". During a subcommittee Wednesday, the amendment was added to the legislation.
DES MOINES, Iowa - Iowa's Fetal Heartbeat bill may not be dead in the State House, yet
"I don't believe that it is over and dropped." State Representative Larry Sheets tells WHO Radio News. Sheets is one of the co-sponsors of the bill.
Although one local news organization is reporting the Heartbeat Bill will not move forward, Sheets says supporters are not giving up.
The Iowa House Human Resources Committee has one last session scheduled for Thursday, where Sheets says the bill could still get a vote.
Iowa's Fetal Heartbeat bill would ban abortions after a heartbeat can be detected, usually around six weeks into a pregnancy. Sheets says supporters have enough support to follow the bill all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Iowa State Senate has already approved the bill, and Governor Kim Reynolds has indicated she supports pro-life legislation.
Pro-choice protesters at the Iowa State Capitol Tuesday laid on the floor, and displayed coat hangers to symbolize the deaths of women who died getting illegal abortions.