P.R. Laws tit. 1, § 5156
(a) The first week of August of each year is hereby declared as “Protection of Safe and Healthy Gestation Processes in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Week”.
(b) Every year, not less than ten (10) days prior to the first week of August, the Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico shall issue a proclamation to exhort the Puerto Rican people to joint the celebration set forth in this section.
(c) The Department of Health, the Department of the Family, and the Department of Education, as well as other organisms and public and private entities concerned in this matter, shall adopt an aggressive public policy towards the education, orientation, and the disclosure of the benefits for unborn children of having future mothers submit to all medical treatments in the pre-natal phase, and shall offer any other necessary information for the accomplishment of the objectives of this section, by means of the organization and celebration of activities that promote the celebration of the first week of August of each year as “Protection of Safe and Healthy Gestation Processes in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Week”.
(d) A copy of the annual proclamation shall be distributed to the mass communication media of the Island for its disclosure or publication.
History —Mar. 25, 2003, No. 93, §§ 1—4.