[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 3, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2006]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 3CFR7863]

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Proclamation 7863 of January 14, 2005

National Sanctity of Human Life Day, 2005

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

The Declaration of Independence proclaimed that all Americans are 
endowed by the Creator with the unalienable rights to life, liberty, and 
the pursuit of happiness. On National Sanctity of Human Life Day, we 
celebrate the sacred gift of life.
We have a responsibility in America to defend the life of the innocent 
and the powerless. Our Nation has made significant progress in recent 
years toward building a culture of life. Last year, I signed into law 
the Unborn Victims of Violence Act of 2004, which provides that any 
person who causes death or injury to a pregnant woman commits two 
separate offenses. I worked with members of both parties to ban the 
brutal practice of partial-

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birth abortion, and I signed the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act. 
Working with the Congress, my Administration has halted spending of 
taxpayers' money on international programs that promote abortions 
overseas. We continue to promote abstinence education, adoption 
programs, crisis pregnancy programs, and other efforts to help protect 
life.
My Administration remains committed to the steadfast belief in the 
dignity of every human being and the promise of every life. Across our 
country, we must continue to encourage our citizens to make ours a more 
just and welcoming society in which every child is born into a loving 
family and protected by law. We will work with decency and respect to 
change hearts and minds, one person at a time. In doing so, we will 
build a lasting culture of life and a more compassionate society.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of 
America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and 
laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim Sunday, January 16, 2005, 
as National Sanctity of Human Life Day. I call upon all Americans to 
recognize this day with appropriate ceremonies in our homes and places 
of worship and to reaffirm our commitment to respecting the life and 
dignity of every human being.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this fourteenth day of 
January, in the year of our Lord two thousand five, and of the 
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-
ninth.
GEORGE W. BUSH