Amend House File 656 as follows:
   1.  By striking everything after the enacting clause and inserting: 
   <Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  598C.1  Unborn child —— findings —— rights, privileges, and immunities —— no cause of action.
   1.  The general assembly of this state finds all of the following:
   a.  The life of each human being begins at conception.
   b.  An unborn child has protectable interests in life, health, and well-being.
   c.  The biological parent of an unborn child has protectable interests in the life, health, and well-being of the unborn child.
   2.  The laws of this state shall be interpreted and construed to acknowledge on behalf of an unborn child at every stage of development, all the rights, privileges, and immunities available to other persons, citizens, and residents of this state.
   3.  As used in this section,“unborn child” means the offspring of a human being from the moment of conception until birth at every stage of biological development.
   4.  Nothing in this section shall be interpreted to create a cause of action against a woman for indirectly harming the woman’s unborn child by failing to properly care for herself or by failing to follow any particular program of prenatal care.
   5.  This section shall not apply to the termination of a human pregnancy performed by a physician licensed in this state to practice medicine or surgery or osteopathic medicine or surgery when in the best clinical judgment of the physician the termination is performed to preserve the life of the pregnant person or of the unborn child and every reasonable medical effort not inconsistent with preserving the life of the pregnant person is made to preserve the life of the unborn child.>
   2.  Title page, by striking lines 1 and 2 and inserting <An Act relating to the acknowledgment of certain rights, privileges, and immunities of human beings beginning at conception relative to termination of pregnancy measures.>

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MASSIE of Warren