Meltzerboy did you actually read the legislation or did you read someone else’s interpretation of the legislation? Must have been the latter as there is NOTHING in the legislation that says women or doctors will be prosecuted. It basically sends the issue back to the states and thus could allow people to decide what level of protection to provide. Further in making the line of demarcation the fertilization rather than stage of pregnancy, it removes the arbitrary nature of various earlier decisions regarding unborn babies.
The legislation is below. It hardly evokes the hair on fire, look out for the black helicopters response from the usual suspects.
At any rate, I don’t see this as meaning that Ryan is some frothing at the mouth crazy person who should be feared. It is his (and many others’) belief that unborn persons are persons. Crazy I know:shrug:
BTW as you noted, this didn’t pass in MIssissippi and it didn’t pass here either. Again hardly something to strike fear in the hearts of voters.
***To provide that human life shall be deemed to begin with fertilization.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
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This Act may be cited as the `Sanctity of Human Life Act'.
SEC. 2. DECLARATION.
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In the exercise of the powers of the Congress, including Congress' power under article I, section 8 of the Constitution, to make necessary and proper laws, and Congress' power under section 5 of the 14th article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States--
(1) the Congress declares that--
(A) the right to life guaranteed by the Constitution is vested in each human being, and is the paramount and most fundamental right of a person; and
(B) the life of each human being begins with fertilization, cloning, or its functional equivalent, irrespective of sex, health, function or disability, defect, stage of biological development, or condition of dependency, at which time every human being shall have all the legal and constitutional attributes and privileges of personhood; and
(2) the Congress affirms that the Congress, each State, the District of Columbia, and all United States territories have the authority to protect the lives of all human beings residing in its respective jurisdictions.
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.
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For purposes of this Act:
(1) FERTILIZATION- The term `fertilization' means the process of a human spermatozoan penetrating the cell membrane of a human oocyte to create a human zygote, a one-celled human embryo, which is a new unique human being.
(2) CLONING- The term `cloning' means the process called somatic cell nuclear transfer, that combines an enucleated egg and the nucleus of a somatic cell to make a human embryo.
(3) HUMAN; HUMAN BEING- The terms `human' and `human being' include each and every member of the species homo sapiens at all stages of life, beginning with the earliest stage of development, created by the process of fertilization, cloning, or its functional equivalent.
uch: :crying:
