BILL REQ. #: H-0632.1
| State of Washington | 63rd Legislature | 2013 Regular Session |
Read first time 01/21/13. Referred to Committee on Health Care & Wellness.
AN ACT Relating to declaring that the right to life, as recognized in the Declaration of Independence and guaranteed by the Constitutions of the United States and Washington state, is vested in each human being beginning at the moment at which an individual comes into being; and adding a new chapter to Title 1 RCW.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1 The legislature intends by this act to
implement equal protection under Article I, section 12 of the state
Constitution for the right to life of each born and preborn human
person.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2 This act shall be known and may be cited as
the Washington state life at conception act.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 3 To implement equal protection for the right
to life of each born and preborn human person, and pursuant to the duty
and authority of the legislature, including the legislature's power
under Article II, section 1 of the state Constitution, to make
necessary and proper laws, the legislature hereby declares that the
right to life guaranteed by Article I, section 3 of the state
Constitution is vested in each human being.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 4 For purposes of this act, the terms "human
person" and "human being" include each and every member of the species
homo sapiens at all stages of life including, but not limited to, the
moment of fertilization, cloning, and other moment at which an
individual member of the human species comes into being.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 5 Sections 1 through 4 of this act constitute
a new chapter in Title