Personhood Amendment

HB 1078, Maryland’s Personhood Amendment will be heard tomorrow in Health and Government Operations Committee at 1pm. So far, it is the only bill on the docket. If you would like to testify in favor of this bill please contact my office before noon tomorrow to put your name on the witness list.

Why Personhood?

Under an American view of Law and Government, we first recognize that we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights. The first right that our founders recognized was the right to Life.  In their wildest dreams, the founders would have never considered a pregnant woman to be carrying anything but a baby yet to be born into this earth.

Because of the limits of medical technology during the founding era, doctors simply relied on the known fact that all pregnant woman were in fact carrying babies. It was never reported that a woman ever gave birth to anything other that a human being.It was not until the advent of the equal rights movement of the 1960’s that somehow that American public began to believe that pregnant women might actually be carrying something short of a human being.  From the beginning of time every woman pregnant on the face of the earth has given birth to a child. Recent medical technologies such as 3D sonogram imaging clearly shows a child in the womb is in fact a living, human being with a beating heart- though yet to be born.

This bill simply recognizes that all human beings have the right to life irrespective of age, health, function, physical dependency, or method of reproduction from the beginning of their biological development.

To read the bill in its entirety, please click the link below.

MDPERSONHOODAMENDMENT