Michigan to “Let the People Decide”

Eventually we will need this at the federal level…

From CBR:

Columbus, OH – February 1, 2006 – The Center for Bio Ethical Reform (CBR) Midwest applauds Michigan Citizens for Life for leading an attempt to amend the Michigan Constitution recognizing personhood at conception. The Michigan Constitutional Amendment is one of several state initiatives that would provide the necessary constitutional challenge to Roe that could send the abortion issue back to the states. This amendment, if enacted, would immediately be challenged by the courts thus providing a test case against Roe. The Thomas More Law Center is prepared to defend the initiative in court if necessary. These types of initiatives are important because it often takes years for the US Supreme Court to receive such cases.

The following is the proposed Constitutional Amendment:

“The right to due process, whereby no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, guaranteed in Article 1 Section 17, and the right to equal protection of the law, guaranteed in Article 1, Section 2, vest at conception.

A ‘person’ for the purposes of the Constitution and laws of the State of Michigan, exists from the moment of conception.”

~ by Barron on February 4, 2006.