A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION, Committing the Legislature and urging the Governor, the Supreme Court, and the Attorney General to secure the blessings of life and liberty for South Dakota's posterity.

    WHEREAS, the purpose of the United States Constitution is "to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity;" and

    WHEREAS, South Dakota Codified Law § 26-1-2 states, "A child conceived, but not born, is to be deemed an existing person so far as may be necessary for its interests in the event of its subsequent birth;" and

    WHEREAS, our children and pre-born children are our posterity; and

    WHEREAS, our most important blessing is the right to live; and

    WHEREAS, the right to life of all innocent persons is God-given and unalienable; and

    WHEREAS, it has been forty-five years since the complicity of the Supreme Court of the United States in the assault on these core principles in Roe v. Wade; and

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    WHEREAS, an estimated sixty million sixty-six thousand two hundred eighty-nine babies have been aborted in the United States of America since 1973; and

    WHEREAS, numerous South Dakota politicians have run for office claiming to oppose this barbaric and evil practice, yet it still is allowed to occur in South Dakota.

    NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Senate of the Ninety-Third Legislature of the State of South Dakota, the House of Representatives concurring therein, that the South Dakota Legislature commits to providing all pre-born children their God-given right to exist and commits to appropriate protections by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, and emphatically urges the South Dakota Supreme Court, the Governor of South Dakota, and the Attorney General of South Dakota to take all actions necessary to do so.