Bill Text: TX SJR25 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to life of unborn children.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-11 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SJR25 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SJR25-Introduced.html
87R3130 MCF-D | ||
By: Hall | S.J.R. No. 25 |
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proposing a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to life | ||
of unborn children. | ||
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 the law of the land. | ||
(b) The protections of this section with regard to the right | ||
to life apply to an unborn child beginning at fertilization. | ||
SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 2, 2021. | ||
The ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the | ||
proposition: "The constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right | ||
to life of unborn children." |