Petition to President George W. Bush to establish Whereas every human being's life begins at fertilization, and the Constitution of the United States guarantees the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and Whereas the 1973 United States Supreme Court decisions of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton deny that right to life to preborn children, more than 47 million preborn children have been put to death by surgical abortion since those rulings were issued, and Whereas March 25 is the date designated on the Catholic Church calendar as the day on which Christians celebrate the incarnation of Jesus Christ, following the angel's announcement that the Virgin Mary was to become the mother of the Son of God, and Whereas the concept of the Day of the Preborn was launched in Latin America, with El Salvador's national legislative assembly declaring March 25 as the Day of the Right to Be Born in 1993, and Whereas Argentina followed suit in 1998 by declaring March 25 the Day of the Unborn, and Chile, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Peru have done likewise and action is pending in Brazil and the Dominican Republic, and Whereas local churches, pro-life groups and notably the Knights of Columbus are sponsoring individual functions to commemorate March 25 as a day to remember preborn children, so Therefore it is established that the tradition of celebrating the Day of the Pre-born is gaining momentum as pro-lifers around the world seek to pay tribute to human life and the dignity of life, and. Therefore it is time for the United States of America to stand strong with the people of all these nations, and the citizens of our own country who are already doing so, and proclaim March 25 of each year as the Day of the Preborn in the United States. We the undersigned petition George W. Bush, the president of the United States, asking that he declare the date of March 25 as the annual Day of the Preborn: Your petition will be used in the efforts to declare March 25 as the Day of the Preborn in the United States.
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