An inspiring (12 year old's) letter to Planned Parenthood

A family friend -- who is 12 -- shared this letter with me, and gave me permission to put it on MOJ.  Wow.  She sets the bar high . . . for all of us!

Dear Planned Parenthood,

My name is ____.  I am 12 years old and heard of your organization about a year ago.  On your website, I find that it states you are: “Working to keep Wisconsin safe, healthy, and strong.” I feel that this goal is unachievable when you offer abortions.  I do not think that taking the life of innocent babies is keeping Wisconsin “safe, healthy,or strong”.

This is a basic human rights issue. We know that it is not right to end the life of someone with a disability because they cannot make decisions themselves and because they are sometimes a burden. It is a similar situation with children who are in the womb.  They cannot fend for themselves, and  with your organization’s help, you unjustly take the child’s life by abortion.   

Lots of people, including your organization, argue that “A baby is not a baby until after the first trimester.” My mom recently just lost a baby in the first trimester of her pregnancy, that child was a human. I could see him growing every day and my smile was brought out at each ultrasound.   There  I could see that child, that human,  that gift. We are all made out of “cells and DNA.” Because someone is growing, should we just end their lives? I recently encountered a woman who told me that my miscarried sibling was “just a clump of cells that died”. We are all  a clump of cells. Adults are just a larger clump than a fetus in the womb.  Should we treat somebody different because they look different; should we just end their life?

            Our world is not focusing enough on the gift of life.  Instead, we are  putting one person’s life value, the mother, above that of her unborn child. We take great measures to ensure that those we can hear will not be voicing complaints of pain or suffering or inconvenience, but we are unwilling to  sacrifice for those voices we cannot hear.

            This is exactly what your organization is agreeing with- to keep abortion legal to take the life of somebody that is still growing, like we all are. But in this case, we can’t hear their cries of pain, so we venture to take their life.  

I very much agree with helping women so they are healthy, but we should treat the unborn child with the same respect. In most cases only 12% of women have included a physical problem with their health among reasons for having an abortion, but when that does happen we need to balance out the needs of both the woman and the baby equally.  

If you wish to achieve the goal to make Wisconsin a safe healthy and strong place then we should get to the root of these issues for reasons Mothers have an abortion instead of ending the life of helpless children. I have a few suggestions that would make your organization a place for lives, not death.First, women need to know that they have a choice; they need to know there are other ways, to let their needs and wants be met. We need to offer this help to these women and children. Instead of offering abortion care, try offering free ultrasounds to let the parents see their little children growing. Instead of telling the woman, “It is not your fault, we understand it interferes with work, school, or other responsibilities,” offer free health care.

Did you know that three out of ten women have an abortion before they are 45? That is at least a million babies’ lives taken by abortion. I understand that women are scared and confused  so it is our job to help them know that we can and will support them and their children.  There are organizations already working in our community to support women with unplanned pregnancies. These organizations give help by providing baby clothes, cribs, car seats, maternity clothes, baby food, and emotional support.

I know that there are cases where women have had or have relationship issues, or women have been raped. In the case of relationship issues, if the women are scared that their boyfriends or husbands will neglect or abuse them, then we need to assure that they are safe. In the case that they were raped, we need support them and guide them to the right choice, the safe choice, the choice of life. Now I know that you are a medical office and are unable to fix many of these problems, but knowing that you could save at least 327,000 babies, a year is great in itself.

I know that your organization is trying very hard to keep women safe and  people say that women will have an abortion whether or not it is legal, so just keep it safe and legal. We have laws to keep people safe. We have the law of no robbing. Should we just make it legal because people are going to rob another whether or not it is legal?

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, states that “everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.” Is taking the life of an unborn child a right to life? It also states that “everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.” An unborn child is a human, this is breaking a right that these children have. Another principle it states is “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”. Is it not inhuman to take a child apart by a D&C? That is tearing the child apart, literally, you are taking the child apart while it is alive. Another way you take the child’s life is by a pill that will end the life of an innocent baby, this is very inhumane. Planned Parenthood and other abortion offices are not following the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and is allowing babies to die every day.

I want to thank you for your time. Please take into consideration of points I have just made. I hope that you can achieve your goal of keeping Wisconsin safe, healthy, and a strong place to live.                                 

 

                                                                                                    Sincerely . . .