South Carolina Fetal Personhood Amendment (2016)
| Fetal Personhood Amendment | |
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| Election date November 8, 2016 | |
| Topic Abortion | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin State legislature |
The South Carolina Fetal Personhood Amendment was not put on the November 8, 2016, ballot in South Carolina as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. The measure, upon voter approval, would have guaranteed that no "born or preborn persons beginning at conception" shall "be deprived of life without due process of law, nor shall any person be denied the equal protection of the laws."[1]
Text of measure
Ballot title
The proposed ballot title was:[1]
| “ | Must Article I of the Constitution of this State be amended so as to add Section 3.a. to provide that the privileges and immunities of citizens of South Carolina and the United States shall not be abridged, so that no person shall be deprived of life without due process of law, nor shall any person be denied the equal protection of the laws. These rights shall extend to both born and preborn persons beginning at conception?[2] | ” |
Constitutional changes
- See also: Article I, South Carolina Constitution
The proposed amendment would have added a Section 3.a. to Article I of the South Carolina Constitution. The following text would have been added by the proposed measure's approval:[1]
Path to the ballot
- See also: Amending the South Carolina Constitution
The proposed amendment had to be approved by a two-thirds vote in both chambers of the South Carolina Legislature to be placed on the ballot. If approved by voters, the amendment would have gone back to the legislature for a second approval before becoming law.
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 South Carolina General Assembly, "Senate Joint Resolution 719," accessed May 8, 2015
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source. Cite error: Invalid
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