Contact Your Senators Today and Ask Them to Defund Planned Parenthood

If you have not watched the videos which clearly expose the horrors of abortion, you might be avoiding your civic duty. What's more important, is that we advocate for the weakest among us who have no opportunity to defend themselves. The Senate has a vote scheduled for Monday on Bill S.1881 to defund Planned Parenthood and reallocate the half a billion dollars to local health care facilities for women that do not provide abortions. 

I encourage you to read the bill and then email Senator Bill Nelson to vote yes (assuming you live in Florida). You can also email Senator Marco Rubio (though I think he will be voting yes).

Here is a sample email from Denny Burk

I am appalled at the recent revelations of barbarism taking place at Planned Parenthood every day. As a nation, we are better than this. This daily destruction of human life should not even be legal, much less subsidized by the federal government.

So I am asking you to do everything within your power to defund Planned Parenthood. I’m also asking you to support any legislation that would protect human life at its earliest stages.

Thank you for receiving this letter and for serving Kentucky.

Sincerely,
Denny Burk

Here is my email (a little longer so it runs the risk of not getting read though...you might keep yours short).

Dear Senator, 

William Wilberforce stood on the floor of British Parliament during the height of the slave trade and recounted horror stories of human beings being brutalized simply because they were useful to the financial gain of others and because they had no legal rights. Wilberforce concluded by calling for the courage to end slavery saying: “You may choose to look the other way, but you can never say again that you did not know.”

By now, you may have watched the videos released by the Center for Medical Progress exposing Planned Parenthood’s profiting off of the sale of aborted fetal tissue. The content of the videos is disturbing and highlights the destructive nature of the abortion industry. I would urge you to please support S.1881: Bill to Defund Planned Parenthood.

In fact, I would urge you to do what you can to end abortion in this land. I will briefly give my logical appeal to end abortion.

1. 1  We know that these are human beings.

a.       This is a medically proven fact (debated during Roe v. Wade, but proven now). The fetus has its own (human) DNA from the moment of conception. It is just a human at a different developmental stage.

b.      38 states have fetal homicide laws on the books.

c.       The images of a Planned Parenthood doctor saying “It’s a boy” while looking into a petri dish with the baby’s dismembered parts on display.

d.      The fact that “fetal parts” are even valuable to researchers as “livers, legs, brains, and hearts” show that they are human beings (they have human organs).

e.        Even pro-choice individuals have acknowledged this reality. In an article entitled, “So What if Abortion Ends Life?” Mary Elizabeth Williams writes:

I have friends who have referred to their abortions in terms of “scraping out a bunch of cells” and then a few years later were exultant over the pregnancies that they unhesitatingly described in terms of “the baby” and “this kid.” I know women who have been relieved at their abortions and grieved over their miscarriages. Why can’t we agree that how they felt about their pregnancies was vastly different, but that it’s pretty silly to pretend that what was growing inside of them wasn’t the same? Fetuses aren’t selective like that. They don’t qualify as human life only if they’re intended to be born.

f.       Some have said fetuses are dependent upon their mother or located in her so they are not worthy of the same rights. However, a one year old is quite dependent on his mother. And a person’s location does not determine if they are a person.

1. 2  It is unlawful to take the life of a human apart from due process of the law and is required that all people have equal protections.

a.       The 14^th Amendment, Section 1, of the Constitution makes this guarantee.

1. 3  Abortion takes the life of an unborn person

a.       The human being inside the womb (point 1 above) is “terminated” by means of lethal injections, crushing, dismemberment, etc.

1. 4  Therefore, abortion should be seen as unconstitutional by a court or explicitly outlawed by an act of Congress.

I realize that Planned Parenthood does not only perform abortions (STD testing and contraception resources, note they do not provide mammograms). However, other organizations offer these kinds of resources, too, without involving themselves in the destruction of life in the womb.  Bill S.1881 calls for funds to continue to be directed to these basic services at other organizations.

It took many years after William Wilberforce’s speech before parliament acted. Surely we all look back and wish they would have acted sooner to prevent the abuse and murder of so many African Americans. May you and other legislators have the courage to end the practice of abortion as soon as possible. Please begin by voting “yes” on Bill S.1881.

Thank you for your service to our state and country and for taking the time to consider this very important issue.

Sincerely,
Ben Khazraee