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A JOINT RESOLUTION
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proposing a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to life |
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of unborn children and prohibiting abortion to the fullest extent |
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possible and to be known as the "Life at Conception provision of the |
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Texas Constitution's Bill of Rights". |
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BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 19, Article I, Texas Constitution, is |
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amended to read as follows: |
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Sec. 19. DEPRIVATION OF LIFE, LIBERTY, ETC.; DUE COURSE OF |
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LAW. (a) No citizen of this State shall be deprived of life, |
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liberty, property, privileges or immunities, or in any manner |
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disfranchised, except by the due course of the law of the land. |
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(b) The term ''citizen of this State'' |
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includes each member |
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of the species homo sapiens at all stages of life, including the |
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moment of fertilization, or other moment at which an individual |
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member of the human species comes into being. |
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(c) The right to life guaranteed by the Constitution is |
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vested in each human being, born and unborn. Nothing in this Article |
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shall be construed to require the prosecution of any woman for the |
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death of her unborn child, a prohibition on in vitro fertilization, |
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or a prohibition on use of birth control or another means of |
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preventing fertilization. |
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(d) To the fullest extent possible, abortion is prohibited |
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in this State. |
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(e) Subsections (c) or (d) do not prohibit a person from |
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receiving an abortion if: |
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(1) the case is a medical emergency as defined by |
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Section 171.002, Health and Safety Code; or |
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(2) the pregnancy was induced by cause or product of |
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rape or incest. |
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SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be |
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submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 7, 2017. |
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The ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the |
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following proposition: "The constitutional amendment guaranteeing |
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the right to life from the moment of conception and, to the fullest |
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extent possible, prohibiting abortion." |