HomeMy WebLinkAboutNB 8 RESO REQUESTED 03-06-89,m ~, ~ m "~ ~m 'NEW BUSINESS NO. 8 .
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TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND CITY cOUNCIL
FROM:
SUBJECT:
WILLIAM A. HUSTON, CITY MANAGER
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Councilman Kelly has requested that the City Council consider the
attached resolution.
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RESOIAITION BY T~E CITY O2D/qCIL OF TUSTIN
ABO ION C r BR OF ORANGZ
Whereas, one unalienable right in the United States of America, as the
Declaration of Independence affirms so eloquently, is the right to
life. In the 16 years since the Supreme Court's decision in R~e v.
Wade, hc~ever, America's unborn have been denied their right to
Whereas, among the tragic and unspeakable results in the past decade and a
half have been the loss of life of over 22 million infants before
birth; the pressure and anguish of countless women and girls who
are driven to abortion; and a cheapening of respect for the human
person and the sanctity of human life;
Whereas, those who champion the right to life kn~ the distress and
anxieties that drive s~me wcmen to c~nsider abortion. The most
moving testimony to our reverence for human life has been the
generous, even heroic efforts made by so many religious and
charitable organizations to help women with problem pregnancies and
to facilitate the adoption of infants into families eager to give
them love and care;
Whereas, those who w~rk to restore legal protection to the unborn do so with
the knowledge that they have gone to the defense of the weak, the
silent, the endangered. But that is not scmething new. %~enever
disasters have endar~3ered human life, we Americm_ns have always
r~sponded swiftly and selflessly;
Whereas, all medical and scientific evidence increasingly affirms that
children before birth share all the basic attributes of human
personality -- that they in fact are persons. Modern medicine
treats unborn ohildren as patients. New science should prcmote new
law;
$'~ereas, the citizens of .Tustin have in their midst a business that prcraotes
the antithesis of life -- the killing of innocent human beings.
Then be it,
Resolved, that the city council of the city of Tustin hereby disapproves of,
as morally reprehensible and as ethically unconscionable, the
presence of the "Abortion Center of Orange County" within the city
limits of Tustin, and its existence in principle.