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April 1, 2014

As usual, on Christmas morning last year I was the first one up at my house.  I was feeling introspective and took advantage of the quiet time to look back at the past year and to look ahead at what I wanted to accomplish this year.  I wondered why I have been given so much and why others have so little. Just 4 days earlier my oldest grandson had suffered a serious health crisis, and his well-being was weighing heavily on me.  At this time in my life I know that the material things are fleeting and ephemeral.  I’ve also come to realize that family and friends are much more important than money and possessions. Lately I’ve been asking myself what really makes me happy and what do I want to leave as my legacy. I’ve come to realize that I’m happiest when I’m helping people, and I’m at peace when I write a piece that I hope will touch at least one heart.  In quiet times like this I also think about the pain and suffering that America’s unborn children endure every day at the hands of Planned Parenthood and America’s abortion industry.  I knew on this crisp, cool morning my children and grandchildren would be arriving in a couple hours for our traditional Christmas breakfast.  I also knew that somewhere in America as I waited for my loved ones to arrive, 3,500 unborn children were nestled comfortably in their mothers’ wombs, oblivious to the fact that they would die tomorrow at the hands of America’s industry of death.

Why I decided to write a letter to President Obama on Christmas morning, I can’t tell you.  But I did, and below is my Christmas Day letter to the President, just as it appeared to the White House staffer as he or she fed it into their shredder.

 

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW

Washington, D.C.  20500

Attn:    President Barack Obama

 

December 25, 2013

 Mr. President:

As I sit here on Christmas morning waiting for my children and grandchildren to arrive, I’m reflecting on my purpose in life.  I have a stressful, albeit, well-paid job, but I feel the pull to work full-time towards the betterment of my fellow man, regardless of the compensation or lack thereof for doing so.  I’m conflicted over the financial obligations I have for my family and the unrelenting sense of purpose I feel to use the gift of life I have been given to dedicate my life to save the world’s children from the scourge of abortion.  Do I abdicate my duties as a father and grandfather and work to save the many, or focus on my own family and encourage them to join me on my mission to end abortion?

Despite the calling I feel to end abortion, my love for my children and grandchildren compels me to focus my efforts to insure they are all safe and happy.  The confliction I feel is this:  While I’m spending quality time with my family, always in the back of my mind is the realization that every 26 seconds in America, while I laugh and play with my grandsons, another child is dying at the hands of America’s abortion industry.  Mr. President, doing nothing as millions of children die every year in my country is not an option for me.  The principles our country was founded upon would never even consider the indiscriminate killing of our unborn children a Right that was granted by God to their mothers.  Evil empires like Planned Parenthood could have never been imagined by the men of honor and integrity that formed our nation as the one place on earth where our Creator’s intention that all men are created equal would stand as our foundational principle.

As the New Year approaches, Harry Reid has refused to allow the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act to be voted upon in the Senate.  Mr. President, no debate should be necessary on this bill.  What man or woman with even a modicum of humanity could vote against a bill designed to prevent the killing of unborn children who have developed to the point that they can feel the pain of being killed?  Sir, you owe all Americans an explanation as to why you have threatened to veto this bill if it is passed by the Senate.

Thousands of American children will die in our nation’s abortion mills tomorrow.  Today, while millions of children celebrate Christmas, thousands of scared, confused mothers are preparing to have their unborn children killed tomorrow, many of them feeling they have no other option.  We are better than this as a nation and as parents and grandparents.

Mr. President, hug your children today and think about the ones doomed to die tomorrow.

As always, my letters to you are published on my pro-life blog at www.prolifepoppop.com.  Write back and I’ll publish it, unedited.

 

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March 29, 2014

When I first started my work for the pro-life movement I planned to include a brief narrative with every post.  This narrative would explain my motivation for the piece I was posting, and provide some background information not included in the piece.  I believe that God doesn’t necessarily call the most qualified or most talented to do His work; He calls on the most willing.  Maybe that’s why I’m doing this.  Certainly, I’m not a literary genius and ask anyone who knows me; I’m not that bright.  What I am is a man who is haunted by the fact that thousands of unborn children will die in America’s abortion mills today; and tomorrow the killing will continue.  I can’t explain what a calling is, but I feel the calling to end abortion or die trying.  I accept the call.  I’m in the process of writing new letters to all the usual suspects in the pro-abortion movement and I’m taking a step back to some of my previous posts and writing these short narratives that didn’t get written the first time around.  The following piece, simply titled The Calling, was first posted last August.

 

The Calling

I’ve always been pro-life, but like most people was too busy raising a family and making a living to really contemplate the horrors of abortion.  Throughout my life I had heard public figures say they had felt a calling to dedicate their lives to the causes they believed in.  I watched them pursue their callings, often at great personal sacrifice and often making the ultimate sacrifice in honor of their cause.  I watched as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his life for his cause.  I watched as Mother Teresa lived in the squalid slums of India as she comforted its impoverished children.

The birth of my first grandson, the child of my child, stirred something inside me. With the birth of my grandson I finally realized the miracle that manifests itself as life.  I knew at that moment that every life is priceless and represents a gift to the world from our Creator.  The slow burn of my calling had begun but I still didn’t know what it was.  I spent the next 2 years watching my family’s little miracle grow and flourish and used that time to learn life’s lessons from an innocent child.  My grandson taught me the meaning of unconditional love and trust.  He taught me to experience awe at the sight of a bird in flight and a butterfly as it danced from flower to flower.  I learned the true meaning of joy as I saw the look of sheer joy on his face from the simple act of wearing his new basketball pajamas for the first time.  I sat through hours of Mickey Mouse movies with him and wouldn’t trade a minute of the time we spent and continue to spend together for anything in the world. My grandson showed me the way and made me realize that the calling I was feeling was real and that I had finally found my life’s purpose.

And then the news came that my second grandson was on the way.  Unbeknownst to me at the time, my second grandson’s impending birth was another not so subtle slap to the back of the head by the Universal Intelligence telling me to get it in gear and start my work of saving our unborn children.   But, by this time my calling to become a pro-life advocate had already begun to build and the pull was getting stronger by the day.  I don’t have a wall full of diplomas or a resume of fancy degrees and I can’t really explain what a calling is.  All I know is that something inside me beyond the realm of the physical world is guiding me towards my life’s work.  I can feel it and I know it’s there, and I’m listening.  My mission to save the world’s unborn children began on May 12, 2013 and will continue until my dying breath.  Once you realize what your purpose in life is you immediately develop a sense of clarity regarding everything else in your life.  You realize the problems you stressed about yesterday really weren’t that big a deal.  You know, without a doubt, that you were put on earth in this place at this time to do what you have been called upon to do.  With that comes a sense of peace that I can’t describe with words.

I’m following my calling as a happy warrior, knowing that my pro-life position and views will bring anger and ridicule from some, and I don’t care.  I know that advocating life over death is the right thing to do and no amount of baseless justifications and shallow arguments from the other side will ever convince me otherwise.

My children and grandchildren are my inspiration to do everything I can to end the scourge of abortion.  My weapon of choice in defense of life is the written word.  Every day I’m writing commentaries and letters to politicians, abortion providers, public figures, and everyone and anyone who somewhere deep inside knows the truth but refuses to acknowledge it.

My goal is nothing less than the end of abortion in my lifetime. I know I can’t do it alone and I know that help will come from sources yet unknown to me.   Laugh if you want, ridicule and demean me if it makes you feel better, or join me in promoting life.

 

 

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Letter to Harry Reid #4

I wrote the following letter to Senator Harry Reid on November 14 last year. I’m sending it again just in case he misplaced it the first time.  He still hasn’t made any attempt to bring this bill to a vote.  While he continues to drag his feet, thousands of innocent children are dying in a most horrific manner.  The blood of America’s unborn children is on his hands and all our hands if we stand by and do nothing.  I won’t look the other way.  Will you?

 

 

Senator Harry Reid

522 Hart Senate Office Building

Washington, D.C.  20510

 

 

March 25, 2014

 

 

Senator Reid:

I know you have a lot on your plate right now, what with the unmitigated disaster of ObamaCare, the reality that it will probably cost you the Senate this year, and the mass defections of your panicked Democrat Senators.  Even though you have a lot going on right now, nothing is more important than bringing the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act to the floor for a vote; nothing except insuring that it passes, and then over-riding President Obama’s veto.

Senator Reid, as I’ve stated in my previous letters, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act will save at least 15,000 unborn children from a tortuously painful death every year.  Sir, a few simple votes is all it will take, and thousands of unborn children get to live.  You can debate the bill before you vote, but what logical argument could you possibly have for allowing the slaughter of thousands of babies who can feel the pain of being killed?

The 2014 and 2016 elections aren’t looking good for your party the way things stand today.  You’ve been caught selling the American people a bill of goods with ObamaCare and you can’t blame this one on the Republicans.  They didn’t cast a single vote for ObamaCare and they passed the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act through the House, so now it’s your turn.  Sir, while you are deciding whether or not to allow a vote on this bill, remember that every 26 seconds another baby is aborted in America.  Every day you delay a vote on this bill, dozens of late-term babies will be ripped apart while they are being killed in America’s abortion mills.

Senator, if you and your fellow Democrats continue to carry the President’s water on the issue of abortion, you risk the fate of drowning under the weight of his utter incompetence.  Sir, you know it’s wrong to kill an innocent human being.  You know that the Right to life applies to unborn, living human beings.  And you know that every unborn child deserves to be born, just like you and I.

Senator Reid, at the risk of repeating myself, no logical argument can be made to allow pain-capable children to be killed under cover of the law.  The greatest country on earth should not be killing over a million of its unborn children every year; and allowing pain-capable babies to be ripped from their mothers’ wombs is an abomination.  Senator Reid, imagine the next baby in line to be killed at your local Planned Parenthood clinic is your grandchild.  What would you do?  The fate of thousands of unborn American children lies in your hands.  What will you do?

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

 

 

 

 

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Letter to Planned Parenthood #37

Planned Parenthood Federation of America

1110 Vermont Ave.  NW

Suite 300

Washington, D.C.  20005

Attn:    Cecile Richards

January 19, 2014

Ms. Richards:

Happy Sanctity of Life Sunday!  Isn’t it ironic that while you and your family enjoy today, most likely completely oblivious to the fact that it is Sanctity of Life Sunday, the organization that you run is preparing to kill thousands of innocent children tomorrow?  Hundreds of thousands of pro-life Americans will descend on Washington this week for the annual March for Life.  As the March takes place, Planned Parenthood and America’s abortion mills will be churning out dead babies at a rate of 1 every 26 seconds.

I begin my 60th year today and I’m committed to seeing your industry run out of business in my lifetime.  As I look into the eyes of my 2 grandsons today I will see the pure innocence and unlimited potential that you and your colleagues will brutally deny to over 1.2 million American children this year.  Over 56 million American children have been killed by your industry since 1973.  Don’t you think 56 million is enough to satisfy an ‘instant gratification, no consequences society’?  In my humble opinion it’s about 56 million too many.

America is a basket case right now with a clueless President, 1 out of 3 unborn children being aborted, and millions of people with nothing better to do than to clamor to be offended by statements made by reality TV stars.  Individuals like you prey on scared, confused mothers; killing their unborn children for a fee, all while receiving hundreds of millions of dollars every year from unwilling taxpayers like me to support your evil empire.

Ms. Richards, will you encourage your children to have your unborn grandchildren killed?  Will you subject them to the same unsanitary conditions, brutal procedures, and incompetent doctors that every other mother and unborn child must endure in your facilities?

As I begin my 60th year of life, I pray that my fellow Americans will come to their senses and see abortion as the crime against humanity that it is.  I pray that every innocent child will be allowed to be born and to get its chance to make the world a better place.  At my age, I’ve learned that life doesn’t come with any guarantees, but it does come with the promise that you will get whatever you ask of it.  Let our children live and be amazed by the miracles they will bring to the world.

Correction; I’m 60 years and 9 months old today.  Just like every child Planned Parenthood will kill tomorrow, I was alive for many months before I was allowed to be born.

As always, my letters to you are published on my pro-life blog at www.prolifepoppop.com.  Write back and I’ll publish it, unedited.

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Letter to President Obama #74

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW

Washington, D.C.  20500

Attn:    President Barack Obama

December 27, 2013

Mr. President:

Aloha.  While you and your family are living it up in Hawaii, over 3,000 innocent children are dying every day in America’s abortion mills.  They will never feel an ocean breeze or the loving caress of a parent.  While you stumble through your latest round of golf and ham it up for your friends in the mainstream media, America’s abortion mills are killing 1 out of every 3 unborn children.

Mr. President, as the most pro-abortion President in history, you are presiding over a human tragedy of epic proportions with over 6 million abortions performed during your first 5 years in office.  If over 1 million Americans were killed every year by terrorists would you take action to stop the killing?  If over a million schoolchildren were murdered every year in their classrooms would you be concerned?  Why do you say nothing as more than a million tiny humans are killed every year just as they are beginning their life journeys?

Mr. President, as you well know, elections have consequences.  Electing inept ideologues like you gives your star struck supporters just what they deserve; an erosion of societal values and a growing indifference for the value of every human life.  Unfortunately, those of us who saw through your non-existent resume and slick talk are stuck with you for 3 more years too.  As adults, we can make our own choices and improve our situation in spite of leaders like you.  Our unborn children aren’t availed the same luxury.  They live and die on the whims of a nation in decline and politically driven morals that shift with the tides of public opinion.

America’s children are priceless.  They deserve better than to be slaughtered in the most barbaric procedures and tossed into medical waste containers like so much garbage.  Organizations like Planned Parenthood should never exist in a country founded on the principles of equality for all, with the Right to life as its basis.  A civilized country should never enact laws that allow a mother to walk into an abortion clinic, pay a fee, and have her unborn child legally killed.  America’s taxpayers should not be forced to send over $500 million a year to Planned Parenthood.

Mr. President, you swore an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.  You’ve had 5 years.  Don’t you think it’s about time you honor your oath?  Sir, if we turn our backs on the most vulnerable among us, our unborn children, what does that say about us as parents, grandparents, and human beings?  Just like elections have consequences, so do our choices in life.  I choose life and will never rest until America’s abortion industry is history.

Enjoy your vacation and think about the hundreds of innocent children that will die during your next round of golf.

As always, my letters to you are published on my pro-life blog at www.prolifepoppop.com.  Write back and I’ll publish it, unedited.

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Letter to President Obama #72

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW

Washington, D.C.  20500

Attn:    President Barack Obama

December 4, 2013

Mr. President:

I’ve had a rough couple days at work so far this week.  In my line of work, this time of year can be very stressful.  Not for me though.  I gave up on stress years ago.  As long as I have life and freedom I can make my situation better and deal with the curveballs that life will inevitably toss my way.  Unfortunately, the world’s unborn children don’t enjoy the same luxury.  They live or die based solely on the wishes of their mother and the whims of progressive activists.  Mr. President, I’m convinced that the only thing standing between our unborn children and the unbridled slaughter of them are men and women of good will and the pro-life movement.

Modern society and pro-abortion leaders like you have done your best to condition the dumb masses to accept abortion as a safe procedure that makes an inconvenient set of circumstances just go away.  You conveniently leave out the fact that a human being is killed every time an abortion is performed and that over a million American children are killed every year by the abortion industry.  Mr. President, your insidious quest to make abortion more accessible has resulted in the American taxpayers being forced to fund abortions through the unmitigated disaster you proudly refer to as ObamaCare.

Just like I gave up on stress, I refuse to give up on the fight for every unborn child’s life.  Each and every one of them was granted the gift of life for reasons I can’t explain and were granted that gift by the One I do not question.  With Christmas just around the corner, I have no interest or desire for worldly gifts.  The only gift I desire is that every unborn child be allowed to be born.  Mr. President, if a child misses out on the gift of life, nothing else really matters does it?  This is the season of giving.  It’s also the season of receiving.  From the One who grants the gift of life, who are we to refuse to accept it?

Mr. President, with the New Year coming up it’s also time for everyone to make their New Year’s resolutions.  I’m sure yours is to get that freaking website up and running and to hope for something to happen that will take the attention off your colossal healthcare disaster.  I’ve already made my resolution too.  I plan to pester the hell out of you, Planned Parenthood, and the rest of the pro-abortion crowd until you all see the error of your ways.  Happy Holidays!

As always, my letters to you are published on my pro-life blog at www.prolifepoppop.com.  Write back and I’ll publish it, unedited.

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Letter to President Obama #68

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW

Washington, D.C.  20500

Attn:    President Barack Obama

November 20, 2013

Mr. President:

Last Sunday while your friends at Planned Parenthood were pulling out all the stops in their attempt to defeat Albuquerque’s Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Ordinance I was running til I dropped with my nearly 3 year old grandson.  We ran and played in my yard and the joy on his face was priceless.  Mr. President, the memories I’m making with my grandkids are the most important in my life.  Unfortunately, the memories every mother leaves a Planned Parenthood clinic with will haunt her forever; and the child she leaves behind will never get the chance to form the memories of a lifetime.

Mr. President, it doesn’t have to be like this.  America could stop killing its unborn children tomorrow.  America’s industry of death could close tomorrow and nobody would notice; nobody but the babies who would get to live, the mothers who would bring a new life into the world, and the grandparents like me who would get to spoil their grandkids rotten.  America’s culture of death could end tomorrow and all the unintended consequences of killing our unborn children would slowly begin to fade with it.

Mr. President, you could make this happen.  Ending the intentional killing of our unborn children would be painless.  There is no downside to allowing babies to be born.  Allowing life to follow its natural course is the default setting for every human being.  All that is needed is a leader who believes the Right to life trumps all other Rights.  All that is needed is a reawakening of the basic principles our Founders enumerated in a little document you’ve chosen to ignore; the Constitution.  All that is needed is for every human being to respect every other human being’s Right to life.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Gandhi both had dreams and both knew that violence was never the answer to any problem.  They both changed the course of their nations, and changed the world without the use of violence.  They both changed the world through an unwavering force of will for causes that were bigger than their personal aspirations. The pro-life movement, like these inspirational leaders, is a steady, unrelenting drumbeat.  It won’t go away and will never give up.  It moves forward for a just cause and is life-affirming.  The pro-life movement doesn’t resort to violence; it seeks to end violence.  The pro-life movement pitches good against evil, secure in the knowledge that good will always prevail.

Mr. President, we will end the killing of our unborn children with you or without you.  We will prevail over the evil you condone and know in the end that we gave our all for a cause worth giving everything.

As always, my letters to you are published on my pro-life blog at www.prolifepoppop.com.  Write back and I’ll publish it, unedited.

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