Respecting and protecting life

Unfortunately, not everyone shares our passion for protecting the gift of life. Sadly, our president has not yet come to understand the dignity and uniqueness of new life. He must not realize that at conception the new human being has it’s own unique, never to be repeated DNA. At conception the baby’s sex, eye and hair color and even its tendency to be right or left handed is established. We all started that same unique way. But while our president was an Illinois senator, he voted four times to deny health care to late-term babies who miraculously survive their abortions. He voted to withhold all medical assistance including a warm blanket, oxygen or simple hydration to keep them alive. He stated that the wishes of the mother, death to the child, must be granted instead of the needs of the child. Healthcare for all must not discriminate against the unborn and newly born.

Our president is a stanch supporter of Planned Parenthood, our nation’s largest abortion provider. This million dollar industry receives nearly $1 million a day or $360,000,000 a year from the federal government. Our president recently said they are an important provider of women’s breast cancer screenings. Yet in reality, they only hand out vouchers. They do not do mammograms or own any machines to do them. The vouchers could go directly to the mammogram providers. No wonder they have donated millions of dollars to run re-election ads. The pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute published a survey from women who obtained abortions; 53.6 percent reported they were using contraception when they conceived. Our nation’s problem is not the lack of birth control; it’s unfortunately the lack of self control, dignity and respect.