HCR 4 - AS INTRODUCED
2021 SESSION
21-0800
05/04
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 4
A RESOLUTION recognizing the authority of states to enact laws protecting the lives of the
unborn and calling for a Constitutional Convention to propose a human life
amendment to the Constitution.
SPONSORS: Rep. Abramson, Rock. 37
COMMITTEE: State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
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ANALYSIS
This resolution calls for a constitutional convention to propose an amendment to the United
States Constitution stating that a right to abortion is not secured by the Constitution.
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21-0800
05/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty One
A RESOLUTION recognizing the authority of states to enact laws protecting the lives of the
unborn and calling for a Constitutional Convention to propose a human life
amendment to the Constitution.
1 Whereas, millions of abortions have been performed in the United States since the abortion
2 decision of the Supreme Court on January 22, 1973; and
3 Whereas, the legislatures of Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky,
4 Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, Oklahoma,
5 Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Utah have made application of the same
6 subject to Congress; and
7 Whereas, the Congress of the United States has not to date proposed, subject to ratification, a
8 Human Life amendment to the Constitution of the United States; now, therefore, be it
9 Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:
10 That the legislature of the state of New Hampshire makes this application to Congress, that a
11 convention be immediately called, of deputies from the several states, for the sole purpose of
12 proposing an article declaring that a right to abortion is not secured by the Constitution of the
13 United States.
14 That the method chosen for ratification be by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states.
15 That the house clerk is hereby directed to transmit copies of this application to the President and
16 Secretary of the United States Senate and to the Speaker and Clerk of the United States House of
17 Representatives, and copies to the members of the said Senate and House of Representatives from
18 this state; also to transmit copies hereof to the presiding officers of each of the legislative houses in
19 the several states, requesting their cooperation.
20 That this application constitutes a continuing application in accordance with Article V of the
21 Constitution of the United States until the legislatures of at least two-thirds of the states have made
22 applications on the same subject.