HI SCR161

Requests the Hawaii Legislature to define personhood as beginning at fertilization and to provide all legal rights and protections of human beings from that moment forward.

References the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision and argues that scientific understanding of fetal development has advanced significantly since that ruling, making it possible to establish personhood at conception.

Contends that modern science demonstrates a fully human and unique individual exists at fertilization and develops continuously until natural death, unlike 1973 beliefs about quickening or evolutionary recapitulation theory.

Directs that certified copies be transmitted to the President of the United States, Hawaii's congressional delegation, the Governor, and state legislative leadership.