Dear Congressmen,
Since 1776 this continent has been a beacon to the rest of humanity for the individual rights of every human being. Though it has struggled to produce freedom for every people, in the end liberty for all has prevailed no matter race or creed. Our country was founded on certain truths that though at times have been wanting in application, have ultimately remained the cornerstones that uphold the spirit of this nation. Specifically the Jeffersonian epitaph:
“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.”
It is that credo that has driven this nation to the heights of glory and power it currently resides in. The Constitution that governs this nation was founded on the belief that no man’s freedom can come at the cost of another, for all men deserve to live in liberty from tyranny, the fear of death and oppression.
In the History of this nation we have faced many challenges to this belief. At the risk of losing resources and stifling a growing economy, this nation took a necessary risk and gave liberty to those being enslaved on Plantations throughout the South. The ultimate result was not a loss in economy but growth for a young nation torn apart. In the early 1900’s liberty was again challenged when children and orphans were being used for cheap labor to kick start a growing industrial revolution. Liberty for these children meant a drop in production and a loss in the Industrial age. The Children were freed, and instead of loss the industrial revolution grew, and 15 years later the nation would boast the largest profits the world had ever seen. Tyranny in Europe by Hitler, voting rights for women, Stalin in Russia, Vietnam, North Korea, Israel, Kuwait, and Iraq, our Nation has been dedicated to the democratic value that all men deserve the right presented in the Jeffersonian mantra.
Today our nation has come to yet another paramount where the liberties of some have been cut off to supply liberty for another. The sexual revolution of the 60’s and 70’s has come at the loss of many. 50 million human beings have been murdered in the name of freedom. The right to live has been taken by the hands of doctors and parents around this country. Abortion has been granted as a right for a woman to choose, and lowered the value of life to a punishment on those wish to be free in their sexual lifestyles.
The liberties of countless human beings in our nation are in jeopardy. The leaders and decision makers in this nation, who serve at the leisure of the people, have failed those they serve. For 35 years they have stood idly by as a holocaust proportionate to that of Nazi Germany have wiped out the lives of many. I petition those who hold office in congress to consider not the definition of life, but the definition of freedom. For those who are in congress are in danger of the same type of hypocrisy that faced our nation during slavery, segregation, and manifest destiny. To take the life of a person, so as to allow another sexual freedom, is same type of injustice that inspired the actions of the continental congress 232 years ago.
To cease abortion would indeed be a risk. Federal dollars for foster care, and adoption are waning. Unwanted pregnancies or statistically higher in poorer urban areas, and the quality of life the baby would face is unknown. Yet no man should have the power to determine who lives and who dies. Such power is supposed to be protected and kept from governmental leaders by democracy. I ask amidst the consequences that come with the abolishment of abortion that you would consider the lives being lost. Would you consider the blood being spilt? Would you consider the advancement in social ethics our nation would take if life were valued higher than sexual freedom? Would you consider the cessation of government funds to organizations like Planned Parenthood, and instead redirect those funds to establish a better foster care and adoption system? Would you consider giving life instead of promoting death?
Our nation has lost its way in the fight for freedom. They have forgotten the “Eternal vigilance” that is required to maintain liberty. Our personal freedoms have come at a high price. For it’s not the blood of the unborn, but patriots that should be the refreshing streams of liberty. Knowing the high price of taking on this issue, I ask would you bleed and fight for those who cannot fight for themselves. As long as it is still recited: “Liberty and Justice for all”.
Thank you for your time
Zack Hensley
6 Comments
Jpm7000000pmWed, 23 Jul 2008 15:47:11 +000008 5, 2007 at Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Are you sending this to Washington DC?
Jpm7000000pmWed, 23 Jul 2008 15:51:25 +000008 5, 2007 at Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Yes I am.
Jpm7000000pmWed, 23 Jul 2008 20:02:53 +000008 5, 2007 at Wednesday, July 23, 2008
One thing to think about is that there was a time in our nation’s history, even within the last fifty or sixty years, when abortion was actually an illegal activity. It has been the process of interpreting Jefferson’s “inalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and Happines” that has deemed unwanted pregnancy as an infringement upon the “rights” of a woman. This new precedent was set with the powerful tidal force of almost 200 years of shifting civil “liberties.” So in a twisted irony, the same force that dreamed of freedom for Black American slaves then spiraled into the regression of legal abortion, all the while imagining that it was continuing the process of freedom.
All that to say, I wonder if an appeal to America’s Civil Conscience is the strongest appeal. Rather than laud the preamble to the Constitution, you might be better off pointing out how dark things have actually gotten since America has trusted herself to be the guardian of human rights. This massive blind-spot (legal abortion) surely means that we need heaven’s input; we need to rethink, not just return to, our very foundational elements.
Jam7000000amThu, 24 Jul 2008 05:20:20 +000008 5, 2007 at Thursday, July 24, 2008
Zack, that is excellent. Can I copy it and send it to my congressman?
Jpm7000000pmThu, 24 Jul 2008 12:27:09 +000008 5, 2007 at Thursday, July 24, 2008
@ John Go for it bro! put your name on it I don’t care!
Jpm8000000pmFri, 01 Aug 2008 19:10:51 +000008 5, 2007 at Friday, August 1, 2008
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