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| {{DISPLAYTITLE:{{PAGENAME}} of the Texas Constitution–discussion page}}__NOTOC__This page is available for comment and discussion regarding the page ''{{PAGENAME}} of the Texas Constitution''. | | {{DISPLAYTITLE:{{PAGENAME}} of the Texas Constitution–discussion page}}__NOTOC__This page is available for comment and discussion regarding the page ''{{PAGENAME}} of the Texas Constitution''. |
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| The due-course clause of the Texas Constitution states that no
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| citizen “shall be deprived of life . . . except by the due course of the law
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| of the land.”57 An unsettled question in this Court is whether the
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| due-course clause protects substantive rights in addition to procedural
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| rights.58 We need not decide this question today. Even if the due-course
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| clause were to encompass substantive rights, the evidence adduced does
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| not support the trial court’s order that the Human Life Protection Act
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| violates the Texas Constitution.
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| If the due-course clause affords fundamental rights as a matter of
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| substantive law and not just procedural protections before the
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| government invades them, the right to life would be found among them.
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| The due-course clause has referred to “life” since statehood.59
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