Thursday, February 19, 2009

Personhood Legislation in North Dakota: A Promising Challenge to Roe v. Wade


PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO HOUSE BILL NO. 1572

Page 1, line 1, after "A BILL" replace the remainder of the bill with "for an Act to provide legislative intent as it relates to references to individual, person, or human being.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:

SECTION 1. References to individual, person, or human being - Legislative intent. For purposes of interpretation of the constitution and laws of North Dakota, it is the intent of the legislative assembly that an individual, a person, when the context indicates that a reference to an individual is intended, or a human being includes any organism with the genome of homo sapiens.

SECTION 2. STATE TO DEFEND CHALLENGE. The legislative assembly, by concurrent resolution, may appoint one or more of its members, as a matter of right and in the legislative member's official capacity, to intervene to defend this Act in any case in which this Act's constitutionality is challenged."

To help support the passage of this legislation, go to:

http://personhoodnorthdakota.com/faq.html

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