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-The due-course clause of the Texas Constitution states that no
+TSC 23-0697 {"The Texas Constitution provides that '[n]o citizen of this State shall be deprived of life, liberty, property, privileges or immunities, or in any manner disfranchised, except by the due course of the law of the land.' TEX. CONST. art. I, § 19.")
-citizen “shall be deprived of life . . . except by the due course of the law
-of the land.”57 An unsettled question in this Court is whether the
-due-course clause protects substantive rights in addition to procedural
-rights.58 We need not decide this question today. Even if the due-course
-clause were to encompass substantive rights, the evidence adduced does
-not support the trial court’s order that the Human Life Protection Act
-violates the Texas Constitution.
-If the due-course clause affords fundamental rights as a matter of
-substantive law and not just procedural protections before the
-government invades them, the right to life would be found among them.
-The due-course clause has referred to “life” since statehood.59