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KLG:fm 12/14/77 RESOLUTION NO. 77-140 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA OPPOSING THE PRACTICE OF ABORTION WHEREAS; the supreme human right is the 'Right to Life,' and WHEREAS; the Declaration of Independence states, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights and among these are, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," and WHEREAS~ this nation was founded by those who believed in human rights and the right to happiness, and thus created an instrument in the Declaration of Independence, to insure those rights, and WHEREAS; the United States Supreme Court only held that unborn human beings are "non-persons" and DID NOT HOLD that they are not "human beings," and further the phrase "unborn children" finds support in the Civil Code whereunder an unborn child can obtain court ordered child support, therefore this Council believes that unborn children are human beings and have the God given right to life, and WHEREAS; the City Council of the City of Santa Ana be- lieves that the ruling of the Supreme Court of 1973, that pro- hibiting abortion during the first trimester of pregnancy was unconstitutional deprivation of the right of privacy of the mother, as well as rulings of the Supreme Court of the State of California, failed to consider adequately that unborn children are human beings and have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Santa Ana feel an obligation to support human rights for all human beings and principally for those human beings unable to speak for themselves, NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Santa Ana that abortion should be prohibited in the State of California and elsewhere in the United States, and APPEAL to all operators of abortion clinics, all medical and hospital personnel performing or assisting in abortion operations, or otherwise aiding or abetting such practices, all newspapers advertising abortion, all governmental bodies authorizing, subsidizing or otherwise promoting abortion and to any and all persons aiding in any way the destruction of unborn human beings, to permit these unborn children to live and to cease and desist from activities that may deprive such children of their right to life. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Clerk of the Council of the City of Santa Ana is hereby authorized and directed to send a copy of this resolution to the President of the United States, to each United States Senator from California, to each Member of the House of Representatives from Orange County, to the Presiding Justice and members of the United States Supreme Court, to the Governor of the State of California, to each State Assemblyman and Senator from Orange County, to the presiding Justice and members of the State of California Supreme Court, and to each City Council in the County of Orange, and to members of the Orange County Board of Supervisors, appealing to all these persons and bodies to take respective action to stop the practice of destruction of human beings.