HI SR71

Requests the legislature to define personhood to include every person from the beginning of biological development including fertilization and provide such persons all rights and protections as human beings.

Cites advances in scientific knowledge since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, arguing that modern science can prove a fully human and unique individual exists at the moment of fertilization.

References Justice Harry Blackmun's acknowledgment in Roe v. Wade that if personhood of the fetus could be established, the legal arguments in that decision would collapse.

Directs certified copies of the resolution to be transmitted to the President of the United States, Hawaii's congressional delegation, the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.