[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 65 (Friday, April 4, 2014)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 18979-18980]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-07780]


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                Proclamation 9095 of March 31, 2014

                
National Donate Life Month, 2014

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                Each day, in quiet hospital rooms and busy offices, in 
                familiar sanctuaries and family living rooms, people 
                make the courageous decision to give the gift of life. 
                After passing his first driving test, an elated 
                teenager adds a lifesaving symbol to his license. While 
                struggling to comprehend their own loss, grieving 
                parents choose to help another child live. During 
                National Donate Life Month, we celebrate those who 
                provide vital organ, eye, and tissue donations, and we 
                bring new hope to the growing list of men, women, and 
                children who still need a donation.

                More than 120,000 Americans are now on the transplant 
                list, and each day, 18 of them die waiting. The 
                individuals in need of these donations are our moms, 
                dads, brothers, sisters, children, and friends--someone 
                important to us or someone else. I encourage all 
                Americans to think about their loved ones and to 
                consider becoming a donor. Discuss your decision with 
                those close to you, and if you decide to donate, visit 
                www.OrganDonor.gov and sign up in your State's donor 
                registry.

                Every donor can save up to eight lives, and thanks to 
                scientific advances, we have the potential to help even 
                more people in need. Last year, I signed the HIV Organ 
                Policy Equity Act, which allows scientists to research 
                organ donation from one person with human 
                immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to another. Ultimately, 
                this law could save lives--permitting donations between 
                people living with HIV and expanding opportunities for 
                more Americans to participate in these life-saving 
                efforts.

                As a Nation, let us shine a light on the power of 
                donation. Let us lift up the friends and families of 
                donors and remember those who ensured that in their 
                death, others received life.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the 
                United States of America, by virtue of the authority 
                vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the 
                United States, do hereby proclaim April 2014 as 
                National Donate Life Month. I call upon health care 
                professionals, volunteers, educators, government 
                agencies, faith-based and community groups, and private 
                organizations to join forces to boost the number of 
                organ and tissue donors throughout our Nation.

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                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                thirty-first day of March, in the year of our Lord two 
                thousand fourteen, and of the Independence of the 
                United States of America the two hundred and thirty-
                eighth.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 2014-07780
Filed 4-3-14; 11:15 am]
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