| |
| |
|
|
A JOINT RESOLUTION
|
|
|
proposing a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to life |
|
|
of unborn children and prohibiting abortion to the fullest extent |
|
|
possible. |
|
|
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
|
|
SECTION 1. Section 19, Article I, Texas Constitution, is |
|
|
amended to read as follows: |
|
|
Sec. 19. (a) No citizen of this State shall be deprived of |
|
|
life, liberty, property, privileges or immunities, or in any manner |
|
|
disfranchised, except by the due course of law of the land. |
|
|
(b) The term "citizen of this State" includes each member of |
|
|
the species Homo sapiens at all stages of life, including the moment |
|
|
of fertilization, or other moment at which an individual member of |
|
|
the human species comes into being. |
|
|
(c) The right to life guaranteed by the Constitution is |
|
|
vested in each human being, born and unborn. |
|
|
Nothing in this |
|
|
Article shall be construed to require the prosecution of any woman |
|
|
for the death of her unborn child, a prohibition on in vitro |
|
|
fertilization, or a prohibition on use of birth control or another |
|
|
means of preventing fertilization. |
|
|
(d) To the fullest extent possible, abortion is prohibited |
|
|
in this State. |
|
|
Section 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be |
|
|
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 7, 2017. |
|
|
The ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the |
|
|
proposition: "The constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right |
|
|
to life from the moment of conception and, to the fullest extent |
|
|
possible, prohibiting abortion." |