HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 1003
A RESOLUTION, Denouncing the recent passage of New York's abortion law and requesting that
the Governor declare a day of prayer and fasting to atone for the unspeakable crime of abortion.
WHEREAS, South Dakota recognizes that an unborn child is a whole, separate, unique, living
human being; and
WHEREAS, from the moment of conception all mankind is united in the common bond of
human personage, with all dignity belonging thereto, as bestowed by nature and nature's unseen
author; and
WHEREAS, united by bonds of history, culture, and law with the people of New York, and our
unity as Americans being dear to us; and
WHEREAS, our fellow Americans in the state of New York, not only having enacted a law
permitting the murder of unborn persons in the last moment before the light beyond the womb; and
WHEREAS, our countrymen did compound their crime by taking the ghastly and egregious step
of publicly celebrating such barbarous and inhuman acts; and
WHEREAS, in light of this barbarism in which we will not share, our bonds of union and
affection are now diminished, sadly against our wish, fallen victim to unholy festivities; and
WHEREAS, the noble citizens of this luminous land have labored forty-six years under the dread
darkness of Roe v. Wade, an unlawful pronouncement of a so-called right to wrest life from the
innocent; and
WHEREAS, we, at the expiration of these forty-six years, do remain altogether devoted to the
cause of life, a sacred principle on which our worthy civilization depends, while unjust governments
mock infants and make merry in an unthinking war to destroy and defile; and
WHEREAS, we know, being taught by the eternal law and the annals of history, that nations and
individuals owe due recompense for grave crimes against right; and
WHEREAS, we being sincere in our desire for comity and friendship, cannot look with
indifference upon these attempts to shake the foundation of free government, long found in virtue,
righteousness, and solicitude for all; and
WHEREAS, in the humility as befits our modest state, with no desire to provoke, yet in fear of
eternal perdition and convicted that this grave offense cries out for justice:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the House of Representatives of the Ninety-Fourth
Legislature of the State of South Dakota, that we confess an utter insufficiency of words to describe
the horror and broken-heartedness we felt in learning of the unrighteous sacrilege the government
of New York masqueraded under the guise of just law; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that by the House of Representatives of the Ninety-Fourth
Legislature of the State of South Dakota, we request that the Governor set forth a day of prayer and
fasting to atone for the unspeakable crime of abortion in our land, and ask that same be transmitted
to all South Dakotans at home and abroad, young and old, to strangers and travelers in our midst, and
to all people of goodwill.
|
|
|
|
Steven G. Haugaard Speaker of the House |
Sandra J. Zinter Chief Clerk of the House |
