TITLE: Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the right to life beginning at fertilization.

SUMMARY: Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the right to life beginning at fertilization.

FULL TEXT:
82(R) HJR 132-Introduced version-Bill Text 82R6734 YDB-D By: Landtroop H.J.R. No. 132 A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the right to life beginning at fertilization. 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 regarding the right to life apply from the point of fertilization, when genetic information is gathered inside a cell, until death. The protections of this article regarding the life of an unborn child apply to the unborn child of any woman physically present in this state. SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 8, 2011. The ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the proposition: "The constitutional amendment protecting life from the point of fertilization."