Bill Text: TX HJR123 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to life of unborn children and prohibiting abortion to the fullest extent possible.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-31 - Referred to State Affairs [HJR123 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HJR123-Introduced.html

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By: Krause H.J.R. No. 123

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."