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Last Updated on Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:59 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:59
From DesMoinesRegister.com:
Republican leaders pledged Tuesday to keep their focus primarily on economic issues, but they said the Iowa House would debate several hot-button social issues.
Among them: further restrictions to abortion and a push to amend the Iowa Constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
The measures’ potential fates in the Senate, where Democrats have a slim majority, are uncertain.
Republicans have sought a public vote on same-sex marriage since an April 2009 Iowa Supreme Court decision legalized such unions.
Attention on the abortion law intensified late in 2010 when Nebraska abortion provider Dr. LeRoy Carhart said he intends to open a late-term abortion clinic in Council Bluffs.