In my post of April 5, 2014 I inadvertently spelled Barack Obama’s name wrong twice in my introductory narrative.  My apologies for the error.  It was not meant as a sign of disrespect to the President.  My letters to him, on the other hand, are.

In a few days my youngest grandson will be 8 months old.  He got off to a rough start, spending his first 11 days in NICU after being born 5 weeks early.  He came out fighting and never took a step backwards.  At a tiny 4 lbs. 14 oz. he was as tough a little guy as you will ever meet.  Today he is a healthy, happy, and much bigger little boy, thanks to the efforts of a team of outstanding medical professionals and the answered prayers of a grateful family.

Last August 15, 5 days after he was born, I had just returned from visiting him in the hospital and felt compelled to write the following letter to the current occupant of the White House.

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW

Washington, D.C.  20500

Attn:    President Barack Obama

August 15, 2013

Mr. President:

I think everyone needs at least one hero in their life to look up to.  My new hero is my 5 day old grandson.  Mr. President, my grandson was born 5 weeks before his due date and despite numerous physical challenges, has not taken 1 step backwards as he strives to reach all the milestones he needs to reach before he can leave the hospital. Even though he only weighs 4 lb. 14 oz. this little boy has already shown me more determination and willpower than most adults I know.  He knows he is alive and he’s determined to make the most of it.

Sir, this precious little boy could have been aborted right up to the moment before he was born.  Instead of making steady progress that will eventually lead to him going home; he could have ended up as a little over 4 pounds of medical waste on its way to an incinerator.  Mr. President, if my little grandson is willing to work this hard for his Right to life, the least I can do is to work just as hard to insure the same Right for every other child in America.

What will it take to convince you and Planned Parenthood that every unborn child is a living human being, just as deserving of life as you and me?  How many more years will Planned Parenthood be allowed to kill over 300,000 children?  The doctors are saying my grandson will be going home in about 7 days.  Over the course of the next 7 days Planned Parenthood will kill another 7,000 unborn children.

Mr. President, the greatest nation on earth kills over 1.2 million unborn children in its abortion mills every year.  Is this the legacy we want to leave the world and the culture of death that we want our children and grandchildren to inherit?  America is better than this and was founded on the principles of freedom and the Right to life that are barely recognizable anymore.

The person you assign to reading letters from people like me will probably think I’m crazy, but something wonderful is about to happen.  I don’t know exactly what it is but I can feel that a change of momentum is about to occur in the pro-life movement that will reset America’s moral foundation. Ordinary people just like me have been silent for way too long and will no longer stand by and do nothing as our country’s children are killed for no justifiable reason.

Mr. President, you’re either with us or against us, and you’re currently on the wrong side.  Please accept my invitation to join the pro-life movement and to show every new life the respect and dignity it deserves.

All my letters are published on the pro-life blog at www.prolifepoppop.com.  Should you choose to reply, I’ll publish it, unedited.

cc: Planned Parenthood

The dirty little secret that both America and China go to great lengths not to talk about is the senseless slaughter of their unborn children.  As America hurtles toward the 60 million mark, China has killed nearly 400 million children since 1980.  China’s One Child Policy places the value of a baby boy over that of a baby girl, resulting in the killing of hundreds of millions of little girls.  The end result after 34 years… who would have guessed?…a shortage of girls.  One unintended consequence of the resulting population disparity between males and females; rampant sex-slave trafficking in China.   In America we have no such problem.  Our abortion industry doesn’t discriminate.  They’ll kill any baby, regardless of sex, as long as they get paid.

China takes the killing of their children a little further than we do.  They encourage, and even reward families for killing their children, even after they are born, in order to comply with their One Child Policy.  Two great civilizations, America and China, killing their kids and thinking they won’t have to pay a price for violating the most sacred of trusts.  I’m thinking this doesn’t work out well for either in the end.

Since Planned Parenthood didn’t seem to want to respond to any of my letters, I figured I’d take a swing at China and see what happened. Last September I wrote the following letter to Chinese Ambassador Zhang Yesui.

Embassy of the Peoples Republic of China

201 Wisconsin Ave.  NW

Suite 110

Washington, D.C.  20007

Attn:    Ambassador Zhang Yesui

September 27, 2013

 Mr. Ambassador:

My country allows over 3,000 unborn children to be killed every day, most of them simply as a matter of convenience.  Your country demands that over 10 times this number of children be killed every day under your One Child Policy.  You force women to have abortions against their will and coerce others to kill their children shortly after birth in order to avoid being fined or jailed for having too many children.  Sir, every American and Chinese child is inherently endowed with the right to be born.

While abortion is a matter of choice in America, it is required by law in China.  Whether by choice or by law, abortion is wrong in every instance and every child that dies in this manner forever diminishes both our countries.  Mr. Ambassador, life, like water, flows naturally as it seeks its proper balance.  Interfering with the flow of life is unnatural and, if continued, will ultimately lead to the destruction of societies that allow their unborn children to be killed.  Just look at the population imbalance between males and females in China.  Sex-selective abortion, where, in your country, female babies are aborted so the family can try to have a boy, has resulted in a 20% male to female population disparity.

Mr. Ambassador, the abortion numbers in our counties are staggering.  Since 1973, with the passage of Roe v Wade, nearly 56,000,000 unborn children have been killed in America.  Estimates put the number of dead children in China since your One Child Policy was implemented in 1980 at over 350,000,000.  The death toll for children killed by abortion in both our countries eclipses the death toll of all the wars ever fought in the history of the world.

In what sane world should a government or any human being decide how many children a family is allowed to have before they are forced to kill their other children?  Should a culture encourage parents to abandon their newborn children, knowing they will die a lonely, horrible death, out of fear of being punished for having too many children?

Mr. Ambassador, both our countries have a lot of work to do.  Our economies are crumbling; our governments are too big and too powerful, and most importantly, both have lost the respect and reverence for the sanctity of every human life.  Sir, my goal in life was to end abortion in America.  Now it is to end abortion in the world.  Every child, no matter where it is, no matter what its circumstances, is entitled to the most basic and most important of all human rights; the right to life.

With or without your help, I intend to end abortion in America and the world.  With or without your help, the children of the world will never give up in their quest to do just one thing; live.

My letters are published on my pro-life blog at www.prolifepoppop.com.  Should you choose to reply, I’ll publish your reply, unedited.

The Socialist State of Maryland, where I happen to reside, attracts the worst of the worst in the abortion industry with its liberal abortion policies and its virtually non-existent regulation of physicians.  Last July I felt it was time to reach out and touch one of the bottom-feeding baby killers my State embraces with open arms.  American Women’s Services is a rather innocuous sounding name for a business that pays the bills by killing children.  As with most of my letters, I think I can safely assume that this one didn’t get too far past the receptionist before it was unceremoniously disposed of; just like every unborn child that enters the building.

American Women’s Services

3506 N. Calvert St. Suite 110

Baltimore, Md.  21218

 July 30, 2013

 To Whom it May Concern:

If ever there was an oxymoron, it would have to be ‘gentle abortion.’  That’s how your firm describes the deadly procedures you perform when killing innocent babies.  I know the financial stakes are enormous, but at least have the courage to call what you do what it is; killing unborn children.

It seems that you and your fellow members in the abortion industry go to great pains to sanitize the descriptions of how you go about killing innocent children.  The description of surgical abortion between 14-24 weeks on your website states the following:  “When adequate dilation has occurred, the laminaria will be removed and your uterus emptied by the technique the physician feels is best for you.”  While your creative use of syntax is admirable, calling the brutal dismemberment of a living child and removing its body piece by piece from the mother’s womb “having your uterus emptied” is beyond the pale.  You also peg the redline on the BS meter when in the same sentence you state that this procedure will be performed “by the technique the physician feels is best for you.”  Apparently, in your minds, the needs of the living, but unborn child about to be killed and what is best for it are of no significance.

You also state that “Twilight sleep will be provided for all patients undergoing an abortion procedure in the second trimester.  This medication will relax you, reduce the amount of discomfort you may feel, and can inhibit memory formation.” One can only imagine the discomfort an unborn child feels as it is torn apart, piece by piece, suffering an indescribably agonizing death; but at least the mother will only feel minimal discomfort.  We all know why you administer drugs to the mother to inhibit memory formation.  What woman, whatever her stance on abortion, would want to remember the grisly details of her baby being killed in her presence?

Let’s cut to the chase.  We all know that you don’t perform abortions out of a sense of contributing to the betterment of humanity; you do it for money.  At night when you tuck your own children in and close your eyes do you ever think of the children you killed today at work?  Do you ever think of the unlimited human potential in every life that ended today at your hands?

I’m not so naïve as to believe that this letter will get past your receptionist, but I can always hope.  To whoever happens to open and read this; do you feel a sense of accomplishment and wellbeing from earning a paycheck from an organization that kills innocent children for money?

I anxiously await, but don’t expect, your reply to or rebuttal of my assertions.

In my daily struggle to end abortion, I know the only way to get my message out is to find a way to expose my work to as many people as possible.  I can write until the cows come home, but if nobody reads it what have I accomplished?  Anyone who has read any of my prior posts knows that I believe every unborn child deserves the right to be born.  I can sincerely say that if anything I write changes even one mind or saves one life I can look back on my life and consider it a life well lived.

When I began my mission to end abortion, I did so with the intention of remaining anonymous in order to preserve my privacy and to let my words speak for themselves.  Once I began sharing my posts on Facebook and Twitter the anonymity and privacy quickly went away.  I’m OK with that.  I stand behind everything I write and don’t care who knows that I wrote it.  To my friends and followers on Facebook and Twitter, if you believe in what I stand for and want to help; I would respectfully ask that you share my posts and tweets.  I know that the last thing most people want to see on their wall is somebody like me talking about abortion and dead babies; but from my perspective, somebody has to.  I ask myself the same question every day: If I don’t do this, who will?

As I write this, 9 States and the District of Columbia still allow a mother to have her unborn baby killed right up to the moment of its birth.  And as I write this, I grieve for the nearly 3,500 babies killed today in America.  Today’s tiny victims were our future doctors, innovators, and world changers. Each of them received their animating spark of life from a Power none of us can fully comprehend.  They were all infused with unlimited potential and each of them was intended by their Creator to transform their animating spark of life into a perfect expression of His will.  Most of my fellow Americans go about their daily lives oblivious to the slaughter that continues day after day.  They know abortion is a generally avoided topic of conversation and prefer to keep it that way.  I understand.  There are days when I wish I could resume the life I had before I committed to the cause that I now think about every minute of every day.

At the end of all our lives we want to look back and know that we made a difference.  We want to leave the world just a little better off because we were here.  We all have worthy goals that we want to accomplish.  Most of us won’t be thinking with our dying breath about how much money we have, how big our house is, or whether we should have spent more time at the office.  If we’re lucky, we will have family and friends that loved us for who we were, whether or not they agreed with our life’s work.  The lucky ones among us will have served their fellow man in such a way that those closest to us will have chosen to continue working for our cause.

I’m committed to completing my mission in my lifetime.  I don’t want anyone to have to come in behind me to clean up my unfinished work.  I want to die knowing that I made a difference and left a world that no longer kills its children.

One incontrovertible fact that no one in the pro-abortion crowd can deny is that each and every one of them was allowed to be born.  One has to wonder if these hypocrites would be so zealous in their proclamations of “a woman’s right to choose” if they were subject to die as a result of another human being’s choice to have them killed for no good reason, all under cover of the law.

When I wrote this piece last September 6 my youngest grandson was less than 1 month old, having spent the first 11 days of his post-birth life in NICU.  Watching him struggle for every breath after being born 5 weeks early led me to understand, even more, how precious every life is.  Seeing his perfectly formed, but frighteningly tiny body as he fought to live, reaffirmed my commitment to saving every unborn child.

The fate of millions of children in this country rests in the hands of a few corrupt politicians and a handful of judges who choose to legislate from the bench.  My side is fighting daily to over-turn Roe v Wade and to end the slaughter of over a million American children every year.  While the fight goes on we must accept every small victory for what it is; and save the ones we can.

Save the Ones we Can

Over the course of human history every great war has been won as a result of many small victories.  Every small victory came at a cost, and none were possible without the final victory in mind.  The moral and ethical dilemmas for those of us in the pro-life community are the carve-outs for rape and incest in most legislation designed to restrict abortion.  While we want to save them all, the reality in today’s political environment is that exceptions for rape and incest, the 1%, will necessarily be included in most bills that place restrictions on abortion for them to have any chance of passage.  So, does the pro-life community place its support behind these bills or stand on principle with an all or nothing approach.  I see the all or nothing approach as a lost opportunity to save lives while holding out for an end to abortion that won’t come all at once.  What have we gained if we stand on principle and millions of children continue to be killed? This is where I may be at odds with many in the movement.  The reality is that every victory for our side, whatever the exceptions, will save innocent children.

I realize that by taking this position some may call me pro-life light or even pro-choice; I disagree.  I’m committed to ending abortion in America and the world, but I’m also practical.  I see the appropriate course of action as accepting the small victories for what they are while we continue to fight for all the world’s unborn children.  We’re in a fight with an abortion industry and political organizations with virtually unlimited funds at their disposal as well as the support of most in the left-leaning media. The other side has too much at stake and too big a public platform to just go away without putting up a fight.  Winning the fight for life will not be attained in one fell swoop but by continuous and unrelenting effort by all of us.  Even if it requires our support for bills restricting abortion on the state and federal level that don’t go far enough, and even if these bills contain exceptions, I see each of these bills moving us closer to a world without abortion.  With every small victory the focus is narrowed on the remaining unborn children that we continue to fight for.  As the focus narrows, the pressure increases on those who try to justify the unjustifiable, and the glare of increasing public scrutiny will lead to their eventual undoing.

Even though children conceived of rape and incest represent less than 1% of all abortions performed in America, these children are no less deserving of life than any other child. The task for us in the pro-life community is to convince society that condoning the killing of an innocent child because of a crime its father committed serves no good purpose and does nothing but continue the cycle of violence.  Victims of rape and incest need to know that they have choices.  While they are often coerced into choosing to have their unborn child killed for the crimes committed by its father, they must also be aware that these choices will more than likely lead to a lifetime of second-guessing: Did I participate in a greater crime than that committed against me?  Was I complicit in the killing of an innocent child?  Is responding to an act of violence with another act of violence the right thing to do?  These victims also need to know that they can accept the child conceived of rape or incest into their family or opt for adoption, secure in the knowledge that a child that was granted life for reasons unknown to man will get its chance to make its unique impression on the world.

Napoleon won many great battles against superior forces by focusing his efforts on one particular point in his opponent’s defenses.  We can do the same.  The more small victories we achieve, the more we can focus our efforts on the 1% that most legislation excludes. The only perfect solution to abortion is for it to end at this very moment.  Since perfect solutions rarely present themselves, we must continue to chip away at the abortion mountain until all that remains is the rubble of the greatest evil ever perpetrated against humanity.