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The Fourteenth Amendment prohibits states from denying "the equal protection of the laws" to "any person." When the Amendment was adopted in 1868, the word "person" had a settled public meaning that included all human beings, including unborn children.
The Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution contains a number of important concepts, most famously state action, privileges or immunities, citizenship, due process, and equal protection—all of which are contained in Section One.
This chapter of the Texas statutes prohibits abortion in Texas. It went into effect on August 25, 2022, 30 days after a judgment overturning Roe v. Wade was issued.
As an effect of the unanimity of the states in holding unborn children to be persons under criminal, tort, and property law, the text of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment compels federal protection of unborn persons.
Protection of Unborn Children - 18 U.S. Code § 1841. Under federal law, harming an unborn child (in utero) during the commission of certain other crimes carries the same penalty as if you had committed the crime directly against the mother—and is charged as a separate offense. This law is embodied in Title 18 U.S.C.
In 2018, the Supreme Court ruled that the fetus' only inherent constitutionally protected right is the right to be born, overturning a High Court ruling that a fetus additionally possessed the children's rights guaranteed by Article 42A of the Constitution.
A Texas law that prohibits almost all abortions went into effect in 2022. Chapter 170A of the Texas Health & Safety Code prohibits abortions in nearly all circumstances. Section 170A. 002 prohibits a person from performing, inducing, or attempting an abortion.
The Supreme Court, however, beginning as early as 1923 and continuing through its recent decisions, has broadly read the "liberty" guarantee of the Fourteenth Amendment to guarantee a fairly broad right of privacy that has come to encompass decisions about child rearing, procreation, marriage, and termination of ...
Chapter 170A of the Texas Health & Safety Code prohibits abortions in nearly all circumstances. Section 170A. 002 prohibits a person from performing, inducing, or attempting an abortion.
You can leave Texas and get an abortion out of state.