; Whereas at least 38 States and this Federal Government (section 1841 of title 18, United States Code) have fetal homicide laws that provide for prosecution of criminals who kill an unborn child during the commission of a crime; Whereas in recognition of the unborn child’s right to life, the common law, State law, and Federal law (18 U.S.C. section 3596(b)), all prohibit imposition of the death penalty on a pregnant woman who has been convicted of a capital crime; Whereas State laws and Federal judicial decisions allowing abortion in the United States denied constitutional rights to unborn children, causing the tragic and unspeakable loss of more than sixty million children before birth, increasing the pressure and anguish of countless women and girls who are driven to abortion, and cheapening our respect for the human person and the sanctity of human life; Whereas nothing in the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization prevents Congress from recognizing the legal and constitutional personhood of unborn children, and indeed, central to the Dobbs holding was the fact that abortion terminates the life of an unborn human being; and Whereas President Ronald Reagan declared in his 1988 Proclamation of a National Sanctity of Human Life Day that our nation cannot continue down the path of abortion, so radically at odds with our history, our heritage, and our concepts of justice, and that the well-being and the future of our country, demand that protection of the innocents must be guaranteed and that the personhood of the unborn be declared and defended throughout our land : Now, therefore, be it