By: Krause H.J.R. No. 123
 
 
 
A JOINT RESOLUTION
  proposing a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to life
  of unborn children and prohibiting abortion to the fullest extent
  possible.
         BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 19, Article I, Texas Constitution, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 19.  (a)  No citizen of this State shall be deprived of
  life, liberty, property, privileges or immunities, or in any manner
  disfranchised, except by the due course of law of the land.
         (b)  The term "citizen of this State" includes each member of
  the species Homo sapiens at all stages of life, including the moment
  of fertilization, or other moment at which an individual member of
  the human species comes into being.
         (c)  The right to life guaranteed by the Constitution is
  vested in each human being, born and unborn.  
  Nothing in this
  Article shall be construed to require the prosecution of any woman
  for the death of her unborn child, a prohibition on in vitro
  fertilization, or a prohibition on use of birth control or another
  means of preventing fertilization.
         (d)  To the fullest extent possible, abortion is prohibited
  in this State.
         Section 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
  submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 7, 2017.
  The ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the
  proposition:  "The constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right
  to life from the moment of conception and, to the fullest extent
  possible, prohibiting abortion."