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

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

FULL TEXT:
85(R) HJR 123-Introduced version-Bill Text 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."