HOUSE BILL NO. 112 Offered January 13, 2010 Prefiled January 5, 2010 A BILL to extend the constitutionally guaranteed rights of unborn children. ---------- Patron-- Marshall, R.G. ---------- Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice ---------- Whereas, the Constitution of Virginia provides in Article I, Section 1 that all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety; and Whereas, the Constitution of Virginia further provides in Article I, Section 11 that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; now, therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: 1. § 1. That a human being is any organism, including an embryo, who possesses a genome spe...