Iowa senators are set to discuss a bill that would recognize life beginning at conception, Monday.

Senate File 253 was introduced with a companion bill in the House, H.F. 297, February 14th.

The two-page bills state; “Iowa recognizes that life is valued and protected from the moment of conception, and each life, from that moment, is accorded the same rights and protections guaranteed to all persons by the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of the State of Iowa, and the laws of this state.”

At last check, the House’s version, which was sent to the Human Resources committee, has not been scheduled for discussion. But, a Senate Judiciary subcommittee is scheduled to review its bill at noon, on the 27th, in room 206 at the statehouse.

The Family Leader, an Iowa-based social conservative political group, is encouraging people to turn out at that meeting and show support for the bill. The group recently posted on its webpage, “Monday, Feb. 27, will be the most important day for life at the Iowa Capitol since Roe v. Wade.”

“Dozens of lawmakers have signed on to cosponsor this ground-breaking law that could change the abortion debate at the national level,” the post continued. “But if the Senate Judiciary Committee does not pass this bill in the next week … it will die this session, and we may never have an opportunity like this again.”

Political action committee, Planned Parenthood Voters of Iowa is also urging voters to turn out to the subcommittee meeting, but in opposition of the bill. On Facebook, the group said the S.F. 253 seeks “to put Iowa lawmakers in charge of a woman's right to make her own, sometimes difficult, health decisions.”