RESOLUTION TO THE TEXAS REPULBICAN PARTY COUNTY CONVENTION FOR A TEXAS STATE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT AND/OR TEXAS LEGISLATION TO PROVIDE EQUAL PROTECTION OF LAW TO ALL INNOCENT HUMANS FROM FERTILIZATION TO NATURAL DEATH
- Whereas the Texas Legislature passed effective 1 September 2003 S.B. No. 319 into law that provides for civil remedies and criminal penalties by the definition of a "person" as an "individual" to include an unborn child at every stage of gestation from fertilization until birth, and provides criminal penalties except for the mother, and abortion physicians or druggists providing health care procedure or practice, and
- Whereas this Texas law was upheld in the killing death of unborn humans several times, the latest being Lawrence v. State of Texas No. PD-0236, Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas November 21, 2007, and
- Whereas the citizens of the State of Texas have demonstrated their will to protect all innocent human beings from fertilization, and
- Whereas our Constitutions provides that protection for persons and property as the paramount duty of government and shall be impartial and complete, and no person shall be denied the equal protection of the laws, and
- Whereas the State of Texas has the duty to protect all innocent life from the moment of fertilization until natural death., and
- Whereas we know that life begins at fertilization by science and factual determination of the Texas Legislature in passage of S.B. 319, and Texas highest Criminal Court of Appeals precedent, and
- Because a fetus is a person from fertilization in Texas for all purposes except abortion, and
- Because the Roe v. Wade decision 410 U.S. 113,157 (1973) stated "If …personhood [of the unborn] is established…the fetus’ right to life is then guaranteed specifically by the Fourteenth Amendment," and
- Whereas the Preamble to the United States Constitution says that the Constitution is made for ourselves and our posterity, and unborn humans are existing flesh and blood posterity, and
- Whereas the Supreme Court has previously upheld every Congressional definition of a person, even the fiction of a corporation and other fictional entities, and
- Whereas similar state constitutional amendments to protect all human life from fertilization have been initiated in the States of Georgia, Colorado and five other states of the United States, and
- Whereas after three decades of legal human abortion, it is now abundantly clear that the legal abortion practice has negatively impacted the people of this state in many ways, including economic, health, physical, psychological, emotional, and medical well-being, so these too, are areas of legitimate concern and duty for correction by the state.
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED That this resolution is approved by majority vote of Nueces County Republican Party convention on the 29th day of March 2008.
Resolution submitted by Clifford Zarsky, County Convention member from precinct 119 Nueces County, Texas
Verified by Nueces County Republican Party Chairperson______________________________