Bill Text: TX HJR10 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 2nd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Applying to the Congress of the United States to call a convention under Article V of the United States Constitution for the limited purpose of proposing an amendment to the constitution to prohibit abortion, euthanasia, and certain other acts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-08-07 - Filed [HJR10 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HJR10-Introduced.html
| By: Vasut | H.J.R. No. 10 | |
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| applying to the Congress of the United States to call a convention | ||
| under Article V of the United States Constitution for the limited | ||
| purpose of proposing an amendment to the constitution to prohibit | ||
| abortion, euthanasia, and certain other acts. | ||
| WHEREAS, Article V of the United States Constitution provides | ||
| that on application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the | ||
| several states the Congress of the United States shall call a | ||
| convention for the purpose of proposing for ratification an | ||
| amendment to the United States Constitution; now, therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the 87th Texas Legislature hereby | ||
| respectfully applies to the Congress of the United States to call a | ||
| convention pursuant to Article V of the United States Constitution | ||
| for the limited purpose of proposing, and submitting for | ||
| ratification, an amendment to the United States Constitution | ||
| abrogating Roe v. Wade and clearly prohibiting abortion, | ||
| euthanasia, and all other acts that deprive any person of life, from | ||
| the moment of conception to natural death, without due process of | ||
| law; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That the 87th Texas Legislature encourages the | ||
| delegates to the convention to consider the following recommended | ||
| text for the proposed constitutional amendment: | ||
| Section 1. Given that all human life begins at the moment of | ||
| conception and has inherent dignity and immeasurable worth, a human | ||
| being, from the moment of conception until death, irrespective of | ||
| biological development, age, health, function, or condition of | ||
| dependency, is a person as that term is used in this Article and in | ||
| the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to this Constitution; | ||
| Section 2. Euthanasia and abortion are unlawful under the | ||
| laws of the United States and any territory subject to their | ||
| jurisdiction; | ||
| Section 3. Euthanasia includes the intentional, knowing, or | ||
| reckless rendering of material assistance to aid another person in | ||
| committing, or attempting to commit, suicide; | ||
| Section 4. Abortion includes the intentional, knowing, or | ||
| reckless killing of any person before birth; | ||
| Section 5. If, in the reasonable opinion of a medical | ||
| professional or other state or federal official, the mother is in | ||
| danger of suffering imminent death or serious bodily injury, a | ||
| person may be removed from the mother's body at the mother's | ||
| election by natural or artificial methods even if the person cannot | ||
| survive outside the mother's body; | ||
| Section 6. The Congress, and the several states, have power | ||
| to enforce this Article by appropriate legislation; and, be it | ||
| further | ||
| RESOLVED, That this application constitutes a continuous and | ||
| ongoing application, in accordance with Article V of the United | ||
| States Constitution, until: (1) the Texas Legislature considers it | ||
| fitting to rescind the application; or (2) at least two-thirds of | ||
| the legislatures of the several states have similarly applied for a | ||
| convention to propose a constitutional amendment and Congress has | ||
| performed its constitutionally obligated duty to call that | ||
| convention; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official | ||
| copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to | ||
| the president of the Senate and the speaker of the House of | ||
| Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all the | ||
| members of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that | ||
| this resolution be entered in the Congressional Record as an | ||
| application to Congress for a convention under Article V of the | ||
| United States Constitution for the limited purpose of proposing an | ||
| amendment to the constitution to prohibit abortion, euthanasia, and | ||
| all other acts that deprive any person of life, from the moment of | ||
| conception to natural death, without due process of law; and, be it | ||
| further | ||
| RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official | ||
| copies of this resolution to the secretaries of state and to the | ||
| presiding officers of the legislatures of the several states with | ||
| the request that they join this state in applying to Congress for a | ||
| convention under Article V of the United States Constitution for | ||
| the limited purpose of proposing an amendment to the constitution | ||
| to prohibit abortion, euthanasia, and all other acts that deprive | ||
| any person of life, from the moment of conception to natural death, | ||
| without due process of law. | ||
