Dear Mr. President Elect:

Living in Washington state, I have just learned that the ballot initiative allowing doctor assisted suicide has passed. I looked on-line and saw that almost every single state that had some sort of abortion initiative voted in favor of the abortion. I cannot understand where the sanctity of life has gone. I hear politicians end every speech with God bless America, but how can He when we don't value the lives of Americans -born and unborn? I am saddened that our new president elect is so far from me on this issue. How can you hear an unborn baby's heartbeat, or see an unborn baby in an ultra-sound sucking its thumb or feel a baby kick and not think that it is alive and that there is life there? I am a firm believer in choice. But I am a more firm believer in the consequences -natural and logical of our choices. If I choose to put my hand on a hot stove, I do not get to choose if I get burned or not. I believe that a woman's "choice" happens long before a pregnancy. She has in essence already chosen life by the very act of sexual intimacy. Pregnancy is after all the "natural and logical" consequence of such an action. And while we are talking choice, who chooses for the newly created life, because if we follow pro-choice logic, shouldn't every life receive a choice? In this argument, I will allow for the fact that I have never been pregnant and alone (by choice I might add) and don't know all of the emotions that coincide with such a situation, but our life is not measured by our emotions, it is measured by our actions. What sort of future can we hope for for our nation when the very people, women, endowed from on high to be co-creators of life selfishly end it so as not to be accountable for their actions. What sort of generation are we really creating by allowing such laws? I believe that nothing brings hope like a newborn. All the world is just waiting to be rediscovered and conquered in a baby and we elect leaders who claim to love America, but not the hope of America. How much longer can we expect protection from above when we do not protect the most innocent of all?