On March 25, 2004 Catholic President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of the Philippines signed Proclamation No. 586 which states, among other things, that March 25, and every year thereafter, is declared as the the “Day of the Unborn” in the Philippines. As an interesting aside, she was a classmate of Bill Clinton’s while studying at Georgetown from 1964-1966. It was about fifteen years after both future presidents attended this Jesuit institution that the Sign of the Cross and the invocation of the Blessed Trinity was prohibited at all public functions by the university’s president, Father Timothy Healy, S.J. God bless President Arroyo for defending the unborn children and doing, as she often says of herself, “the right thing, not the popular thing.”
