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re: abortion

| January 27, 2017 3:00 AM

Reconsider:

Stop supporting abortion

This year marks 44 years since abortion was ‘legitimized’ in America. Well over 50 million abortions have been sanctioned by our nation since 1973.

Our nation was founded as a Christian Nation in which they believed in absolutes and that we owed our allegiance to our creator; where government had an obligation to recognize that all men were Created equal and possess rights from God that were not ever to be violated. They described those in part in the declaration: Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Without recognizing and honoring the right to life, there will be no others.

Our nation struggled with the evils of slavery and many of the founders petitioned for abolition. They believed that to fight the greatest military power on earth they needed the 13 colonies to be united and the battle against slavery would be taken on later.

Thomas Jefferson, in reference to slavery, said, “And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever.”

The civil war mostly answered that question in the blood of 625,000 soldiers (more than all WWI and II, Korea and Vietnam combined). What will be the justice of 50+ murders sanctioned by abortion? HIS justice will not sleep forever.

Steve Tanner

Bonners Ferry