SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 10
(By Senator
Schoonover)
(Introduced March 18, 1997; referred to the
Committee on Health and Human Resources;
and then to the Committee on the Judiciary.)
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of West Virginia, amending article six thereof by adding thereto a
new section, designated section fifty-five, relating to
prohibiting funding for abortions except in cases of rape
and incest.
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 one thousand nine hundred ninety-eight,
which proposed amendment is that article six thereof be amended
by adding thereto a new section, designated section fifty-five,
to read as follows:
ARTICLE VI. THE LEGISLATURE.
§55. State funds for abortions prohibited.
No public funds of this sState may be used to pay for
abortions, except when the procedure is necessary to save the life of the mother, or in cases of rape or incest, where the act
of rape or incest has been reported to a law-enforcement agency
before the abortion is performed.
Resolved further, That in accordance with the provisions of
article eleven, chapter three of the code of West Virginia, one
thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, such proposed
amendment is hereby numbered "Amendment No. 1" and designated as
the "State Funding For Abortion Prohibited Amendment"," and the
purpose of the proposed amendment is summarized as follows: "To
prohibit state funding for abortion."
NOTE: The purpose of this resolution is to prohibit state
funding for abortion.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.