Below is an essay I wrote for the Government of the State of Maine to call for the immediate and complete abolition of abortion in my state. Consider writing to your own government officials urging them to abolish abortion in your state.
Check out this resource from End Abortion Now. This is a great tool for contacting your legislators about abolishing abortion.
Here is my essay:
"To the respected members of the Government of the State of Maine,
My reason for writing this essay to you, is to urge you to consider the issue of abortion.
For over 40 years our country has suffered from the effects of the well known court case Roe vs. Wade. The case of Roe vs. Wade should never have come before the Supreme Court. No one should even think about whether it is a woman's “right” to murder a child. The Court's decision in Roe vs. Wade was errant and as a court decision it is only binding in that one case, it is not a law that is to be blindly followed by the entire country over 40 years later. The Supreme Court cannot make laws. Since Roe vs. Wade was decided, over 60 million children have been murdered by abortion. That is over 60 million children in America, who are endowed by their Creator with the unalienable right to life, whose innocent lives have been taken, without due process of law.
I am an abortion abolitionist. I believe that these children are persons with the same rights as any other citizen of the State of Maine and of the United States of America. They have dignity and value as human beings, and they are deserving of the full protection of the law. It is my hope to lay out for you in this essay a moral, scientific, and legal case for the abolition of abortion in our State.
Moral
As our founding fathers believed, everyone is endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights among which is the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. All human beings are created in the image of God. No man has the right to destroy a fellow image bearer. In our country we have laws against murder in most cases, but there is an exception for unborn children if their mother chooses to abort them. My case is that this is an absurd situation. Since all human beings have the right to life given to them by God, and since, as we shall see later, a child is a human being at conception, it follows that anyone who willfully takes the life of an unborn child is as much a murderer as the person that kills an adult human. In our country we have said that the willful killing of an adult is murder, but that the willful killing of an unborn child is merely a “ woman's choice”. May I point out that no person in their right mind would accept a woman's “choice” to murder her husband, but they fully support her if she chooses to have her child dismembered by abortion. This is inconsistent.
Scientific
At conception a new human being is created, separate from both it's mother and father. As the American College of Pediatrics says: “The American College of Pediatricians concurs with the body of scientific evidence that corroborates that a unique human life starts when the sperm and egg bind to each other in a process of fusion of their respective membranes and a single hybrid cell called a zygote, or one-cell embryo, is created.” (1)
Since, at conception the child is a unique human life, the only thing that is different between that child and an adult human is, 1) Size, 2) Level of development, 3) Environment, 4) Degree of dependency. As we examine the differences listed above, we see that these are not legitimate reasons to discriminate against unborn children and deny them the right to life. Both of the first two points, size and level of development, could be applied to a 3 year old child. The reasoning would be like this: A 3 year old child is smaller and less developed than an average adult, therefore we should have the right to kill them. This is absurd and should never be considered. Looking at number 3, your location does not determine your value as a human being. The last point is degree of dependency. Most people do not believe that we should kill a person who is dependent on insulin, or an oxygen tank, or a person who is on life support. I hope that it is clear that we should not discriminate against any person for the above reasons.
Legal
Now we look to the legal case of why unborn children have the same rights as other citizens. We look first to the Constitution of the United States. In the 14th amendment it states: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
In the case of Jessie Livell Phillips vs. State of Alabama, the Supreme Court of the State of Alabama stated: “Today, this Court adds Alabama's capital-murder statutes to the growing list of Alabama's, and other states', broad legal protections for unborn children. In so doing, we affirm once again that unborn children are persons with value and dignity equal to that of all persons.” (2)
All human life is worthy of protection from the point of conception. We cannot deny equal protection of the laws to certain humans based on arbitrary standards. It is our duty to uphold justice and to defend the rights of the poor and needy. Today in our culture, many unborn children are at risk of death. They are vulnerable and it is our duty to protect them.
The Declaration of Independence states: “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, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
The reason governments are instituted among men is to secure the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Sadly our government is not protecting those rights but instead have made it “legal” to murder unborn children. When our government perverts justice and fails to fulfill the goals for which it was ordained, we as a people have the right to abolish or alter it. Will our government stand up and fulfill it's obligation and enforce justice for all it's citizens?
Abortion procedure
A D&E abortion procedure is performed by a medical professional inserting objects into a woman's body and brutally tearing a live human being limb from limb and crushing their skull. They then take the baby's body and reassemble it on a tray. You can affirm this fact by reading the testimonies of doctors who have performed abortions. Abortion is murder and it is inhumane. I hope you are fully disgusted by the fact that children in your State are being murdered by these methods.
You can also find pictures of aborted children on http://www.createdequal.org/
Conclusion
As we have seen the moral reason that we must protect human life because it is created by God, the scientific reason that human life begins at conception, the legal reason that all persons are deserving of equal protection of the laws, and the truth of what abortion actually is, what must we do with this information?
My call to the government of the State of Maine, is to abolish abortion. I do not ask that you regulate the murder of children by making a pain-capable ban on abortion, banning only dismemberment abortion and still allowing other methods of murder, or by instituting a heartbeat bill which only prevents the murder of children at a later stage of development, or merely regulations that only limit the number of children that are murdered. What you must do to uphold justice and to protect your citizens is to fight for the complete and immediate abolition of abortion by any means from the point of conception on!
From conception to natural death, all human life is precious. It is your duty to protect these children! Stand for the law. Stand for life. Stand for justice! Children are dying in your State. What are you going to do to stop it?"
Sincerely,
Virginia Cowperthwaite, age 15
Thomaston Maine
Footnotes
(1) https://www.acpeds.org/…/position-statements/life-issues/wh…
(2) https://law.justia.com/…/al…/supreme-court/2018/1160403.html
With love in the Lord,
Virginia
