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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
Personhood 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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