An Iowa statehouse subcommittee on Wednesday will discuss a state constitutional amendment that could give lawmakers the ability to ban abortions.

Lawmakers proposed the amendment two weeks after a judge struck down the fetal heartbeat bill, which would have been the most restrictive abortion law in the country.

Governor Kim Reynolds says she supports the amendment, while others say the state constitution should not contain personal beliefs,

"...to talk about keeping it comfortable to kill it, I'm appalled by that," she said.

"We're not just talking about passing a bill, this is changing the Iowa Constitution to really insert personal beliefs into the fundamental document of our state," said Erin Davison-Rippey with Planned Parenthood.

Two successive general assemblies must pass it before it's on the ballot for voters.