Bill Text: TX SJR9 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to life of unborn children and prohibiting abortion to the extent authorized under federal constitutional law.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-25 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SJR9 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SJR9-Introduced.html
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By: Hall | S.J.R. No. 9 |
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proposing a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to life | ||
of unborn children and prohibiting abortion to the extent | ||
authorized under federal constitutional law. | ||
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. To the fullest extent authorized | ||
under federal constitutional law as interpreted by the United | ||
States Supreme Court, 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 of unborn children and, to the fullest extent authorized | ||
under federal constitutional law as interpreted by the United | ||
States Supreme Court, prohibiting abortion." |