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Taking away life-saving healthcare from the poorest Americans to provide a tax cut to the richest among us is not what our Founding Fathers had in mind all those years ago when they spoke of life, liberty and happiness. Last week, when my Republican colleagues in the Senate released a draft healthcare bill that would cause 22 million Americans to lose their healthcare and cut $770 billion from Medicaid, they lost sight of those guiding principles. Certainly, to have any of those things requires first having affordable, comprehensive healthcare. When Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence, he included the words “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” calling them unalienable rights guaranteed to every American. For nine short months of uncomfort a woman can spend a lifetime, filled with happiness, knowing that she has given a child the opportunity to have "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness".This week, as we celebrate the Fourth of July, we reflect on the origins of our great experiment in democracy and the principles that have guided us for more than two hundred years. So many couples are waiting years and years for the opportunity to be called "dad and mom". What could make the world a better place more easily than an innocent, wide eyed, child!
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In a society filled with "me, me, me" it's time we stopped thinking about ourselves and start thinking about how to make the world a better place. That does not mean, however, that they should take away the opportunity for couples who are ready and able to be parents. It's true that some women are not ready or able to be a parent.
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If we are truly a free nation where all men are "created equal" then we must include the smallest of our population. The "pursuit of Happiness" can not only apply to the individuals that breath our air.

Women deserve the best we can give for their health both physically and mentally.

If we want the best for women then we want to rid our world of abortion. For those that physically survive the abortion, there are years of regret, sorrow and emotional pain. Wake up call: abortion isn't safe TODAY! Women die from legal abortions right now. Like a two year old, upset that they can't have that second cookie, the abortion advocates are stamping their feet and throwing themselves on the floor yelling about how women will die in back alley coat hanger abortions. All over our nation suits are being filed, injuctions are being asked for and temper tantrums are being thrown.

Planned Parenthood and NARAL are fighting back. Americans overwhelmingly believe that they should not be forced to pay for abortion via federal or state monies.įor the first time we are seeing states stand up successfully to remove funds from abortion providers and afiliates, to provide life saving ultrasounds, that show a heartbeat, before the abortion and to give women the true informed consent discussion with her abortion doctor so that she can make a truly informed choice.īut it's not quite time to rest from our work.
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Our youth are coming up in support of life, planned or not, and are getting educated and active in the pro life effort. More Americans report that they are pro life than those that report they are pro abortion. How terrible is it that families are torn apart over the loss of that life.īut in the darkness of abortion there is a light beginning to shine.

How tragic is it that misinformed and scared women are convinced that the child in their womb is only a "clump of cells". How ironic is it that some believe that their comfort and happiness is more important that the individual person, albeit small, that only seeks to live out the words of The Declaration of Independence. In the unfortunate "pursuit of happiness" by some they are denied one of the most basic of Rights: LIFE. Our country has come so far but yet again these words must used to point out an injustice: abortion.Įach day over 3000 tiny human are lost to abortion because they are not thought to be "created equal". Using these words we saw the end to slavery in recongnition that "all men are created equal". Time and time again we have heard these words whenever an unjustice against persons in seen. Certainly one of the most famous lines in this declaration is 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." It was just the beginning of what became a hard fought and, eventually won, freedom. On July 4th, 1776 the Congress of the thirteen united States of America issued The Declaration of Independence.
