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To The Latest American

by Bruce Bangerter (Utah)

In the twinkling of an eye you have become an American. You are part of the greatest nation the world has ever known. Ahead of you is joy and happiness in growing up with your little brothers and sisters; and beyond that the hopes and dreams of the future. But for now, you are a helpless little one forming inside the one you will call "Mommy." Yours is a dark and uncomprehensive world, and will be until the day you are born. Meanwhile, you will be molding those precious yet unseeing eyes; the little yet untouching fingers; the little feet that will soon delight your Mommy as you kick with the spirit of light from within. Ah, life -- so precious and so sweet!

But I'm afraid your Mommy's love does not reach to the precious little body and soul that burns with love and trust inside her. For she is a liberated woman. She insists on the right to her own body. And you have not come at a convenient time. So your little voice will never cry or be heard; those little lips will never smile; those little hands will never feel or grasp. In fact, your little body will not be allowed to form at all. You will never get to play with those little brothers and sisters. They will never know you even existed. Oh, if your Mommy would only let you live -- many are aching to have and love someone like you.

Ours is an immoral nation. We are a permissive people. But, when motherhood, family, and life itself becomes sacred no longer; when the lives of precious innocents become cheaper than the lives of convicted murderers; when abortion becomes so rampant it will be easy to condone infanticide; then will we have reached the depth of our depravity. Then will we surely fall as other nations have that have forsaken God.

But there are still those who care so much it hurts. We believe that the first and most important role of government is the protection of all life. We feel that the unborn is entitled to the full protection of the laws and the Constitution for the United States of America. When these laws have been voided and you have been stripped of all right to life, then we are fully ripe for our destruction. We need to resist abortion or feticide at all levels of government. There is no compromise to the right to life!