{"id":914,"date":"2020-01-22T21:58:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T02:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wvforlife.com\/harrison\/?p=914"},"modified":"2020-01-25T17:38:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T22:38:09","slug":"following-in-the-footsteps-of-past-presidents-president-trump-issued-a-declaration-today-affirming-the-dignity-of-human-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wvforlife.com\/harrison\/2020\/01\/22\/following-in-the-footsteps-of-past-presidents-president-trump-issued-a-declaration-today-affirming-the-dignity-of-human-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Following in the footsteps of past presidents, President Trump issued a declaration today affirming the dignity of human life."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 22, 2020 is the 47th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in\u00a0<em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>\u00a0which legalized abortion in all 50 states around the country. Since the decision, more that 60 million preborn babies have been killed.<\/p>\n<p>The court\u2019s decision has resulted in a tragic amount of loss of life. Intriguingly, despite the popular pro-choice slogan \u201cno uterus no opinion,\u201d the decision was made by nine unelected, unaccountable men.<\/p>\n<p>To mark the somber occasion and push forward in the fight for life, President Trump\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/proclamation-national-sanctity-human-life-day-2020\/\">proclaimed<\/a>\u00a0January 22nd as \u201cNational Sanctity of Human Life Day.\u201d Presidents Reagan, H.W. Bush, W. Bush and Trump have issued annual declarations on or around the anniversary of\u00a0<em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>. Presidents Clinton and Obama refused to issue the proclamations during their administrations.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump\u2019s proclamation began by affirming the dignity of human life. \u201cEvery person \u2014 the born and unborn, the poor, the downcast, the disabled, the infirm, and the elderly \u2014 has inherent value,\u201d it began. The declaration went on to praise the recent decreases in annual abortions in the United States. It notes that the rate of abortions decreased by 24 percent between 2007 and&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com\/on-the-anniversary-of-roe-v-wade-president-trump-declares-january-22nd-national-sanctity-of-human-life-day\/\">Click to read more at dailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 22, 2020 is the 47th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in\u00a0Roe v. Wade\u00a0which legalized abortion in all 50 states around the country. Since the decision, more that 60 million preborn babies have been killed. The court\u2019s decision has &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wvforlife.com\/harrison\/2020\/01\/22\/following-in-the-footsteps-of-past-presidents-president-trump-issued-a-declaration-today-affirming-the-dignity-of-human-life\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Following in the footsteps of past presidents, President Trump issued a declaration today affirming the dignity of human life.<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,75,33,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-war","category-human-interest","category-nationwide-prolife-news","category-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wvforlife.com\/harrison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wvforlife.com\/harrison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wvforlife.com\/harrison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wvforlife.com\/harrison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wvforlife.com\/harrison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wvforlife.com\/harrison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"https:\/\/wvforlife.com\/harrison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wvforlife.com\/harrison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wvforlife.com\/harrison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wvforlife.com\/harrison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wvforlife.com\/harrison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}