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The Personhood Amendment

Amendment Wording:

1. The rights of every person shall be recognized, among which in the first place is the inviolable right of every innocent human being to life. The right to life is the paramount and most fundamental right of a person.
   
2. With respect to the fundamental and inalienable rights of all persons guaranteed in this Constitution, the word “person” applies to all human beings, irrespective of age, race, sex, health, function, or condition of dependency, including their unborn children at every state of their biological development, including fertilization.

The Purpose of the Amendment:

1. It establishes and affirms that Georgia is a “pro-life” state that protects all human life from fertilization as a matter of constitutional law.
   
2. It provides a direct challenge to the central holding of Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973).

Talking Points:

• In the Roe v. Wade decision, Justice Harry Blackmun wrote that, “(If the) suggestion of personhood [of the preborn] is established, the [abortion rights] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life is then guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment.” Thus, the personhood of the preborn child is the single point on which the entire debate turns.
• Since Roe, the U.S. Supreme Court has found, “the authority of States to exercise…its sovereign right to adopt in its own Constitution individual liberties more expansive than those conferred by the Federal Constitution.” 447 U.S., 74,81 (1980)
• The proposal establishes a constitutional principle; it does not enact criminal or civil legislation.
• Contrary to the view of some critics, no one can say with absolute certainty that the United States Supreme Court would NOT review the case. What we can say with absolute certainty, however, is that the Supreme Court will NOT reverse Roe without a case to do so. Thus, a challenge to the amendment will provide the vehicle to challenge Roe.
• The proposed constitutional amendment would provide the opportunity for the case to be made that human life begins at conception. In fact, detailed and compelling evidence exists which places beyond any doubt the conclusion that human life begins at conception. Such evidence would be particularly meaningful and relevant in this case because it goes to the heart of the question that will be presented to the Court by a challenge to the proposed amendment.

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