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 PROCLAMATION 5932—JAN. 12, 1989 103 STAT. 2985 first flower of their unique existence crushed forever. But, as many phi- losophers have pointed out, the effects of such acts of violence are just as profound on those who perform them as on those who undergo them. Americans are a generous and kindhearted people, a people who strive to strengthen and preserve those deUcate bonds of affection that unite the human family and give safe harbor to all its members. We often fail in our tenderness and mercy; but it is not in our nature to choose fail- ure. Rather, we are a people who thirst after justice and will give our all to achieve it and defend it. Most partictilarly, we are a people who will not settle for a national poUcy that each year condemns 1.5 million unborn children to an early death and consigns their mothers to exploi- tation and emptiness. We must tind we will answer abortion with loving alternatives like adoption, and we will ensure that our laws pre- serve and protect the innocent unborn from destruction. In 1989 America can make a New Beginning as a champion of the most basic civil right of all. We can, as is written in Deuteronomy, choose life, so that we and our descendants may Uve. NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Con- stitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim Sunday, January 22, 1989, as National Sanctity of Himian life Day. I call upon all Americans to reflect on their heritage as a free people under God and the duty incumbent upon each of us to recognize the personhood of every individual and to defend the life of every innocent person from the moment of conception until natural death. Let us gather in homes and places of worship during this sixth annual observance of National Sanctity of Human Life Day to offer reparation for the appalling trage- dy of abortion and to rededicate ourselves to works of charity and jus- tice in behalf of America's unborn children and their mothers. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this ninth day of January, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hun- dred and thirteenth. RONALD REAGAN Proclamation 5932 of January 12, 1989 National Challenger Center Day, 1989 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Marble statuary and granite monuments, imposing as they may be, can never speak with the eloquence reserved only for a living memorial. The Challenger Center is a Uving tribute to the brave and courageous crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger who made the supreme sacrifice 3 years ago. The mission and work of this crew will continue with their same sense of dedication and vision at the Challenger Center.

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