From An Admiring Antipodean

Dear President Obama

I was greatly encouraged to view your recent address to ‘Planned Parenthood’ and rejoice in your warm endorsement of their work and in your wishing of the blessing of God upon them and all they do for the cause of women’s reproductive health and the right to take control of their own bodies. The practice of some 3,000 abortions a week in the USA is a ringing endorsement of their work and proof of their deserving your support.

I have long supported the ‘Pro Choice’ cause as you have, and must commend you for your courageous stand in support of late term terminations.
You are able to see clearly the issue at hand- that if a woman has the right and indeed the responsibility to control her own body as she thinks best, and if her unborn foetus is unwanted, then the life of that foetus must obviously must be subsumed to the greater cause of the free choice of the women.

Could I now plead with you to seize the time and further advance the ‘Pro Choice’ cause? For the greater good and survival of his clan and supporters, President Assad of Syria has (so we are told) applied poison gas to some 1,500 man women and children in the suburbs of Damascus. Though these terminations are a tad later then we would desire, I am sure that you will see that his actions are a courageous application of the work that you have so faithfully supported in the USA. What the President of Syria has done is a reflection of his right to take control of the health of his own community as he thinks best, and these unwanted lives have been subsumed to the greater cause of his right and freedom to be ‘Pro Choice.’

Please could I ask you to once again show the leadership and courage and foresight for which we all hold you in such high esteem and sound out those words once again, this time to President Assad and his helpers- “God bless you in all you do.”