; Whereas the primary Framer of the Fourteenth Amendment, Representative John Bingham, explained that the Amendment was written to ensure that no State in the Union should deny to any human being . . . the equal protection of the laws ; Whereas Senator Jacob Howard, who sponsored the Amendment in the Senate, declared that the Amendment’s purpose was to disable a State from depriving not merely a citizen of the United States, but any person, whoever he may be, of life, liberty and property without due process and to ensure that even the lowest and most despised of the [human] race were guaranteed equal protection ; Whereas Representative Thaddeus Stevens called the Amendment a superstructure of perfect equality of every human being before the law; of impartial protection to everyone in whose breast God had placed an immortal soul ; Whereas the drafters and ratifiers of the Fourteenth Amendment expected the Amendment to apply not only to freedmen and Black Americans, but to every member of the human species within the jurisdictional reach of the Constitution, they intentionally selected the expansive language of any person , to ensure that no State would ever again subject any class of persons to inferior and invidiously discriminatory treatment; Whereas a medical and scientific consensus exists establishing that each human being begins his or her life cycle at fertilization; Whereas abortion, the use or prescription of any instrument, medicine, drug, or any other substance or device, to intentionally kill the unborn child of a woman known to be pregnant, is destructive to the life, health, personal security, and well-being of the unborn child; Whereas unborn children have morally and legally protectable interests in life, health, personal security, and well-being; Whereas at least 38 States and this Federal Government (section 1841 of title 18, United States Code) have fetal homicide laws that provide for prosecution of criminals who kill an unborn child during the commission of a crime