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MEDIA ADVISORY: Group Submits Personhood Amendment to Florida State Constituion
by Katie Walker
Released September 4, 2009
Washington, D.C. (for 11 September 2009)
WHAT:
A press conference announcing submission of the Personhood Amendment to the Florida state Constitution
WHEN:
Friday, September 11, 2009, 12:30 p.m. (lunch will be provided)
WHERE:
Waller Park – front of the new Capitol, facing the Supreme Court and Duval Street, Tallahassee, FL
WHO:
Personhood and human rights activists from across Florida and the United States
WHY: Personhood recognizes human rights for all human beings from the beginning of their biological development. The Florida personhood movement fulfills the civil rights movement. It fundamentally recognizes the inherent rights, dignity and worth of every person.
If passed, this historic movement would make Florida the first state in the Union to acknowledge full human rights for every human being.
The proposed Amendment to the Florida Constitution reads:
SECTION 28. Person Defined.--
(a) The words “person” and “natural person” apply to all human beings, irrespective of age, race, health, function, condition of physical and/or mental dependency and/or disability, or method of reproduction, from the beginning of the biological development of that human being.
(b) This amendment shall take effect on the first day of the next regular legislative session occurring after voter approval of this amendment.
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American Life League was cofounded in 1979 by Judie Brown. It is the largest grassroots Catholic pro-life organization in the United States and is committed to the protection of all innocent human beings from the moment of creation to natural death. For more information or press inquiries, please contact Katie Walker at 540.659.4942.
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