Wed Jun 7, 2023 – 2:53 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – Twenty-one Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have signed onto a resolution recognizing preborn human beings as entitled to equal protection under the U.S. Constitution, a non-binding statement of where they stand in the ongoing debate over whether abortion should be left to the states or requires a national solution.
House Resolution 464, introduced by Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO), affirms that a “medical and scientific consensus exists establishing that each human being begins his or her life cycle at fertilization,” that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution expressly forbids any state from “deny[ing] to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws,” and that the amendment arose “within a common-law and statutory context that prohibited abortion and treated the unborn human being throughout pregnancy as a ‘person’, who under ‘common and civil law’ was ‘to all intents and purposes a child, as much as if born.’”
Therefore, the resolution would declare that the House recognizes “the life of each human person begins at fertilization (or the functional equivalent thereof)” with “moral and legally protectable interests in life, health, and well-being”
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