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Congress is very fragmented on Pro-Life
Issues. They cannot even agree on one Pro-Life view so
agreeing on an amendment that would protect all unborn
children is just not likely. There has been hundreds
of Personhood (Human Life) Amendments introduced into
Congress in the past 35 years but they have all gotten
nowhere.
Unfortunately, since the 1980s the Federal Human Life Amendment
was dropped as a viable project by the Pro-Life Movement
due to the difficulty in getting it passed through a very
diverse and partisan Congress. The era
of the Federal Personhood Movement had ended.
HUMAN LIFE AMENDMENT (1975)
INACTIVE
by National Right to Life
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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 stage of their
biologic 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 power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation.
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THE PARAMOUNT AMENDMENT
(1979)
INACTIVE
by the American Life League
Dropped in 2008 for their new
Federal
Personhood Amendment
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The paramount right to life is vested in each
human being from the moment of fertilization with-out regard
to age, health, or condition of dependency. |
UNITY HUMAN LIFE AMENDMENT
(1981)
INACTIVE
by National Right to Life
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Section 1: The right to life is a paramount
and most fundamental right of a person.
Section 2: With respect to the right to life
guaranteed to persons by the Fifth and Fourteenth Articles
of Amendment to the Constitution, the word "person" 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 including
fertilization.
Section 3: No unborn person shall be deprived
of life by any person; provided, however, that nothing in
this article shall prohibit a law allowing justification to
be shown for only those medical procedures required to
prevent the death of either the pregnant woman or her unborn
offspring as long as such law requires every reasonable
effort be made to preserve the life of each.
Section 4: Congress and the several States
shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate
legislation.
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FEDERAL PERSONHOOD
AMENDMENT
(2008)
ACTIVE
by American Life League
(ALL)
RESEARCH:
ALL Personhood Page
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Purpose:
To establish that
legal personhood is granted to all human beings in the
United States from the beginning of their biological
development.
Section I:
The right to life is the
paramount and most fundamental right of a person.
Section II:
With respect to the right
to life guaranteed to persons by the fifth and 14th
articles of amendment to the Constitution, the word
"person" applies to all human beings; irrespective of age,
health, function, physical or mental dependency, or method
of reproduction; from the beginning of their biological
development.
Section III:
Congress and the several
States, including territories under United States control,
shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation.
Section IV:
Definitions
Human being:
Any organism,
including the single-cell human embryo, irrespective of
the method of reproduction, who possesses a genome
specific for and consistent with an individual member of
the human species
Human genome:
The total amount of
nuclear and extra-nuclear DNA genetic material that
constitutes an organism as an individual member of the
human species—including the single-cell human embryo
Human embryo:
The term is used to
define all human beings from the beginning of the
embryonic period of their biological development through
eight weeks; irrespective of age, health, function,
physical or mental dependency, or method of
reproduction; whether in vivo or in vitro.
Human fetus:
The term is used to
define all human beings from the beginning of the fetal
period of their biological development (the beginning of
nine weeks) through birth; irrespective of age, health,
function, physical or mental dependency, or method of
reproduction; whether in vivo or in vitro.
Personhood:
The legal recognition of a
human being's full status as a human person that applies
to all human beings; irrespective of age, health,
function, physical or mental dependency, or method of
reproduction; from the beginning of their biological
development
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