Letter to the president.

10033 Inkster Road
Livonia MI, 48150
October 20th, 2008




Mr. President
White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington D.C.

Dear Mr. President,

In both the public and private eye I am known as Carley Hewitt. I am six-teen years old and attend Franklin High School in Livonia Michigan. Yes, Michigan; the state with the worst economic forecast in the country. Yet I don’t want to talk about something that affects my parents rather than me. I would like to discuss a situation I could be put into, and how to keep my current decision my choice.

It is a huge issue in the US. It divides us as a country, democrats and republicans; Christian and non-religious; liberal and conservatives. Pro-life v. pro-choice. I am writing to express my feelings of concern that my choice may be taken away.

Being a teenager in America I understand the beliefs that we preach in church to live a clean and pure life until marriage. I also know as a teenager in a public high school the pressure to have sex younger and younger weighs even heavier than the scripture most read every Sunday. I know that if I were to get pregnant while in high school I would not be able to have the child. I have to much of a future ahead of me to be interrupted with a child.

I do believe that religion often reflects the laws that try to be made and overturned. Most citizens are pro-life because it is against their religion. I sympathize with them, but since I have no religious affiliations I cannot agree with them. If christens and other religions feel it is a sin and wrong, then they should be the ones to not get abortions,; sure, encourage others to have the child and give it up for adoption but don’t amend a law just to fit your personal beliefs and preferences.

In a recent interview with Katie Couric, Sarah Palin gave her opinion on a possible situation to be pro-choice. Couric asked Palin if Palin would still be pro-life if a girl was raped by her father and became pregnant. Sarah Palin responded simply by saying she would council the girl. How is it possible to hear something like that? Incest and rape and encourage the girl to still give birth to her own fathers child. The girls life would be ruined mentally and possibly physically also.

In closing I would like to state that in cases of rape, incest and a simple teenage mistake women and I should have the choice, and it shouldn’t be taken away. We as women have fought to many years to have this right to obtain safe birth control and legal safe abortions. Who has the right to take those advancements away? It would be like taking away women’s right to vote, which we also worked for years.

I would like to thank you for taking the time to read a six-teen year olds rambling on this issue. But you must remember we are an age group that finds this issue very important.


Sincerely yours,
Carley Hewitt




(lots of unorganized rambles... for creative writing class, still waiting for us to start writing creative shit.)