[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 23 Introduced in House (IH)]

  1st Session
H. J. RES. 23

 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with 
                     respect to the right to life.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 4, 1995

   Mr. Volkmer introduced the following joint resolution; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with 
                     respect to the right to life.

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House 
concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an 
amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be 
valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when 
ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States:

                              ``Article--

    ``Section 1. With respect to the right to life, the word `person' 
as used in this article and in the fifth and fourteenth articles of 
amendment to the Constitution of the United States applies to all human 
beings irrespective of age, health, function, or condition of 
dependency, including their unborn offspring at every state of their 
biological development.
    ``Section 2. No unborn person shall be deprived of life by any 
person: Provided, however, That nothing in this article shall prohibit 
a law permitting only those medical procedures required to prevent the 
death of the mother.
    ``Section 3. The Congress and the several States shall have the 
power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
    ``Section 4. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have 
been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures 
of three-fourths of the several States, within ten years of the date of 
its submission to the States by the Congress.''.
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