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Below is a letter that I sent to Carl Pope, executive director for the Sierra Club. When we get letters from different groups, we should respond with our own letters. I would love to join the Sierra Club, but it supports abortion.
Carl Pope, Executive Director
Sierra Club
85 Second Street
Second Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
6 July 2007
Dear Mr. Pope:
I received your letter asking for my support of your efforts to help preserve groves of Giant Sequoias and to support the Sierra Club by becoming a member.
I will most certainly offer my support and send in my petitions to help keep the logging industry from having access to protected trees.
However, I regret that I cannot join the Sierra Club at this point. While the Sierra Club has done much to help preserve and protect our natural resources, its stand on a woman’s right to choose an abortion runs counter to any sensible program to care for the earth’s resources.
A woman’s right to abortion fails to take into account the rights of the unborn. I do not know when a fetus becomes fully human, but I do know that at whatever stage of development that fetus is, it is made up of human DNA and nothing else. We need never fear that a human fetus will ever suddenly turn into a ferret fetus. A Giant Sequoia seed will always produce a Giant Sequoia. Both deserve our protection.
Basic ethics tells us that killing the unborn is wrong. Basic ethics tells us that if an action could possibly be wrong, it shouldn’t be committed. For instance, I tell my students that they shouldn’t download music off the internet unless they are absolutely sure that it is legal. If they are unsure, basic ethics tells them that they shouldn’t do it.
Similarly, if we are unsure if a fetus in a human woman’s womb is a human, then basic ethics tells us we shouldn’t be depriving it of life.
I am surprised that the Sierra Club, an organization that is based on good, sound principles of ethical behavior toward our natural resources, could support a woman’s right to kill her most precious resources while still in the womb.
Finally I would like to ask the Sierra Club to please reconsider its position on a woman’s right to choose an abortion.
Sincerely,
Carl Pope, Executive Director
Sierra Club
85 Second Street
Second Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
6 July 2007
Dear Mr. Pope:
I received your letter asking for my support of your efforts to help preserve groves of Giant Sequoias and to support the Sierra Club by becoming a member.
I will most certainly offer my support and send in my petitions to help keep the logging industry from having access to protected trees.
However, I regret that I cannot join the Sierra Club at this point. While the Sierra Club has done much to help preserve and protect our natural resources, its stand on a woman’s right to choose an abortion runs counter to any sensible program to care for the earth’s resources.
A woman’s right to abortion fails to take into account the rights of the unborn. I do not know when a fetus becomes fully human, but I do know that at whatever stage of development that fetus is, it is made up of human DNA and nothing else. We need never fear that a human fetus will ever suddenly turn into a ferret fetus. A Giant Sequoia seed will always produce a Giant Sequoia. Both deserve our protection.
Basic ethics tells us that killing the unborn is wrong. Basic ethics tells us that if an action could possibly be wrong, it shouldn’t be committed. For instance, I tell my students that they shouldn’t download music off the internet unless they are absolutely sure that it is legal. If they are unsure, basic ethics tells them that they shouldn’t do it.
Similarly, if we are unsure if a fetus in a human woman’s womb is a human, then basic ethics tells us we shouldn’t be depriving it of life.
I am surprised that the Sierra Club, an organization that is based on good, sound principles of ethical behavior toward our natural resources, could support a woman’s right to kill her most precious resources while still in the womb.
Finally I would like to ask the Sierra Club to please reconsider its position on a woman’s right to choose an abortion.
Sincerely,