[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 231 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 231

     To implement equal protection under the 14th Amendment to the 
 Constitution of the United States for the right to life of each born 
                       and preborn human person.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 24, 2017

Mr. Paul (for himself, Mr. Risch, Mr. Rounds, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Scott, Mr. 
    Thune, Mr. Perdue, Mr. Inhofe, and Mr. Boozman) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
     To implement equal protection under the 14th Amendment to the 
 Constitution of the United States for the right to life of each born 
                       and preborn human person.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Life at Conception Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. RIGHT TO LIFE.

    To implement equal protection for the right to life of each born 
and preborn human person, and pursuant to the duty and authority of 
Congress, including Congress' power under section 8 of article I of the 
Constitution of the United States to make necessary and proper laws, 
and Congress' power under section 5 of the 14th Amendment to the 
Constitution, the Congress hereby declares that the right to life 
guaranteed by the Constitution is vested in each human being. Nothing 
in this Act 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.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Human person; human being.--The terms ``human person'' 
        and ``human being'' include each member of the species homo 
        sapiens at all stages of life, including the moment of 
        fertilization or cloning, or other moment at which an 
        individual member of the human species comes into being.
            (2) State.--For purposes of applying the 14th Amendment to 
        the Constitution of the United States and other applicable 
        provisions of the Constitution to carry out section 2, the term 
        ``State'' includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth 
        of Puerto Rico, and each other territory or possession of the 
        United States.
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