HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 18
(By Delegates Sumner, Lane and Sobonya)
[Introduced January 9, 2008; referred to the Committee
on Constitutional Revision then the Judiciary.]
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of West
Virginia, amending article VI thereof by adding thereto a new
section, designated section fifty-seven, relating to
clarifying that nothing in this Constitution secures or
protects a right to abortion or requires the funding of an
abortion and designating such proposed amendment; and
providing a summarized statement of the purpose of such
proposed amendment.
Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia, two thirds of
the members elected to each house agreeing thereto:
That the question of ratification or rejection of an amendment
to the Constitution of the State of West Virginia be submitted to
the voters of the state at the next general election to be held in
the year two thousand eight, which proposed amendment is that
article VI thereof be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section fifty-seven, to read as follows:
ARTICLE VI. THE LEGISLATURE.
§57. Nothing in this Constitution secures or protects a right to
abortion or requires the funding of an abortion.
Nothing in this Constitution secures or protects a right to
abortion or requires the funding of an abortion.
Resolved further, That in accordance with the provisions of
article eleven, chapter three of the Code of West Virginia, 1931,
as amended, such proposed amendment is hereby numbered "Amendment
No. 1" and designated as the "Amendment clarifying that nothing in
this Constitution secures or protects a right to abortion or
requires the funding of an abortion" and the purpose of the
proposed amendment is summarized as follows: "Nothing in this
Constitution secures or protects a right to abortion or requires
the funding of an abortion."
NOTE: The purpose of this resolution is to amend the State
Constitution to clarify that nothing in the Constitution secures or
protects a right to abortion or requires the funding of an
abortion.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.