Letter to the President
Lately, I have been super convicted about how the abortion laws need to be changed and I felt compelled to write a letter to the President (though I don't really think it would ever be seen by the President). But, why not? What have I got to lose? So I wrote this letter. I haven't sent it yet but I am thinking about it.
Dear Mr. President,
During the time that you ran for office, I heard many comparisons between you and Abraham Lincoln for various reasons. I hope that you can live up to these comparisons, but in light of a certain comparison that I have not heard before. Lincoln was president in a time in which there were two sides of an important moral issue. The country was divided over a landowner’s right to own slaves. Though this was very much a hot topic at the time, we can all see now that viewing a slave as less of a person and taking away their rights because slaveowners felt that they had the right to, was not morally correct.
You also have become president at a time in which the country is divided on an important moral issue. The country is divided at this point in time on a mother’s right to end the life of her baby. Though this is very much a hot topic as of now, I hope that one day our children and grandchildren will look back on our country’s history and wonder how we could have possibly had a law that saw unborn babies as less of a person and felt that we could take away their right to live because some mothers thought they should have the right to.
In the case of owning slaves, the correct moral decision won out, and I pray that in this case it will too. But I am afraid that God is being taken out of our country, and thus our country may not ever make the correct moral decision for whatever reason. Just as you may not have ever been able to become President had the law not changed, many unborn babies may not ever be able to put their mark on the world if the law does not change.
Though I have always been opposed to abortion, my recent experiences are what has prompted me to write this letter. For in a few days or weeks, my first child will be born. It was at approximately nine weeks into my wife’s pregnancy that my views about this issue became so much stronger. In week nine of the pregnancy, I was able to look at an ultrasound of my precious girl. We could see her wiggling her little arms and legs and her heart beating and it was the most amazing thing in the world. Considering the fact that you have two daughters yourself, I assume that you too have had this experience. To deny that there is a life inside the mother at that point would be a slap in the face of the God who created that life inside of her. For I am a firm believer that God loves all the people he creates from the moment he creates them.
I agree with Byron White in his Roe vs. Wade dissenting opinion that “I cannot accept the Court's exercise of its clear power of choice by interposing a constitutional barrier to state efforts to protect human life and by investing mothers and doctors with the constitutionally protected right to exterminate it.” I really don’t understand the argument that women have the right to choose. There are so many situations that the government takes away our right to choose because our actions would infringe upon someone else’s rights. The law currently denies us the right to choose to murder, to steal, to rape, etc. Why should mothers be an exception that they should be allowed to choose to take away the life of their unborn children? If we were at the doctor’s office at nine weeks looking at our baby wiggle and the doctor intentionally ended the life of our baby in front of us, I would say that was murder. But if for some reason, we told the doctor to do it, how does that change anything? There should be no person living who has the right to take the life of a child, no matter what stage of life that child is in. Just like the slaves who lost their lives because treating them as a person might inconvenience the slavemaster’s life, thousands of babies are losing their lives because of the inconvenience it might put on the mother.
I am proud that our country changed its perspective in the way it viewed the slaves in this nation and we have become better for it. And I pray that in the future, our perspective will finally change to recognize an injustice that half the nation does not yet see. For in the Declaration of Independence, they declared, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men.” Somewhere along the way, certain people ignored the fact that all babies are created equal and that they are endowed by their Creator with the right to life. They have lost this right to life for now, but just as slaves eventually won their freedom, I hope that one day our unborn children will receive their full rights as citizens as well. What a mark to leave in history to be the President to stand up and use similar words as Mr. Lincoln in the Emancipation Proclamation, “…the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.”
This was undoubtedly a hard move to make by Abraham Lincoln because of the number of people who disagreed with him. Likewise, going down this path would be difficult for you as well. But steering the country away from the path of injustice and leading them down a different path is worth the price you would have to pay. I love the quote by Robert Francis Kennedy in which he states, “It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” Just as Lincoln sent forth that tiny ripple of hope that helped build the current which wiped out slavery, you too have a great opportunity because of the position you are in. I realize that your current viewpoint on this moral issue may currently be on the other side, but I am writing this letter because everyone has the ability to cross the line. I support you as President and may God bless you in every decision that you make.
So what do you think? Any thoughts, suggestions, etc.?
Dear Mr. President,
During the time that you ran for office, I heard many comparisons between you and Abraham Lincoln for various reasons. I hope that you can live up to these comparisons, but in light of a certain comparison that I have not heard before. Lincoln was president in a time in which there were two sides of an important moral issue. The country was divided over a landowner’s right to own slaves. Though this was very much a hot topic at the time, we can all see now that viewing a slave as less of a person and taking away their rights because slaveowners felt that they had the right to, was not morally correct.
You also have become president at a time in which the country is divided on an important moral issue. The country is divided at this point in time on a mother’s right to end the life of her baby. Though this is very much a hot topic as of now, I hope that one day our children and grandchildren will look back on our country’s history and wonder how we could have possibly had a law that saw unborn babies as less of a person and felt that we could take away their right to live because some mothers thought they should have the right to.
In the case of owning slaves, the correct moral decision won out, and I pray that in this case it will too. But I am afraid that God is being taken out of our country, and thus our country may not ever make the correct moral decision for whatever reason. Just as you may not have ever been able to become President had the law not changed, many unborn babies may not ever be able to put their mark on the world if the law does not change.
Though I have always been opposed to abortion, my recent experiences are what has prompted me to write this letter. For in a few days or weeks, my first child will be born. It was at approximately nine weeks into my wife’s pregnancy that my views about this issue became so much stronger. In week nine of the pregnancy, I was able to look at an ultrasound of my precious girl. We could see her wiggling her little arms and legs and her heart beating and it was the most amazing thing in the world. Considering the fact that you have two daughters yourself, I assume that you too have had this experience. To deny that there is a life inside the mother at that point would be a slap in the face of the God who created that life inside of her. For I am a firm believer that God loves all the people he creates from the moment he creates them.
I agree with Byron White in his Roe vs. Wade dissenting opinion that “I cannot accept the Court's exercise of its clear power of choice by interposing a constitutional barrier to state efforts to protect human life and by investing mothers and doctors with the constitutionally protected right to exterminate it.” I really don’t understand the argument that women have the right to choose. There are so many situations that the government takes away our right to choose because our actions would infringe upon someone else’s rights. The law currently denies us the right to choose to murder, to steal, to rape, etc. Why should mothers be an exception that they should be allowed to choose to take away the life of their unborn children? If we were at the doctor’s office at nine weeks looking at our baby wiggle and the doctor intentionally ended the life of our baby in front of us, I would say that was murder. But if for some reason, we told the doctor to do it, how does that change anything? There should be no person living who has the right to take the life of a child, no matter what stage of life that child is in. Just like the slaves who lost their lives because treating them as a person might inconvenience the slavemaster’s life, thousands of babies are losing their lives because of the inconvenience it might put on the mother.
I am proud that our country changed its perspective in the way it viewed the slaves in this nation and we have become better for it. And I pray that in the future, our perspective will finally change to recognize an injustice that half the nation does not yet see. For in the Declaration of Independence, they declared, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men.” Somewhere along the way, certain people ignored the fact that all babies are created equal and that they are endowed by their Creator with the right to life. They have lost this right to life for now, but just as slaves eventually won their freedom, I hope that one day our unborn children will receive their full rights as citizens as well. What a mark to leave in history to be the President to stand up and use similar words as Mr. Lincoln in the Emancipation Proclamation, “…the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.”
This was undoubtedly a hard move to make by Abraham Lincoln because of the number of people who disagreed with him. Likewise, going down this path would be difficult for you as well. But steering the country away from the path of injustice and leading them down a different path is worth the price you would have to pay. I love the quote by Robert Francis Kennedy in which he states, “It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” Just as Lincoln sent forth that tiny ripple of hope that helped build the current which wiped out slavery, you too have a great opportunity because of the position you are in. I realize that your current viewpoint on this moral issue may currently be on the other side, but I am writing this letter because everyone has the ability to cross the line. I support you as President and may God bless you in every decision that you make.
So what do you think? Any thoughts, suggestions, etc.?
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