Sample Letter on a Current Issue
Oppose the Prevention First Act (PFA)
(S. 21/HR. 463)
Letter from a Citizen 2

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Source: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/userletter/?letter_id=2653129716 (The below letter has been edited.)

Jane Doe
12345 Main St
Minneapolis MN 55418-3209

Date

The Honorable Keith Ellison [This legislator is used just as an example for formatting.]
1130 Longworth House Office Building
United States House of Representatives
Washington DC 20515-2305

Dear Representative Ellison:

Subject: Please Oppose the Prevention First Act (S. 21/H.R. 463)

Please help defeat and vote against the Prevention First Act. Planned Parenthood does not need any more taxpayer money. The words they use hide the evil that they propose. Their teen website actually approves of teens using porn in place of having intercourse. While, of course, teens should be chaste and not have sex at all, those who get addicted to porn -- and there are many who do -- suffer far worse problems than do those who carry a child to term in an unplanned pregnancy. Indeed, a woman who carries a child to term can thrive, because she's doing a good thing.

Funding Planned Parenthood -- rather than reducing abortions -- increases them.

Abortion is wrong, because it kills an innocent person. It's not the answer to anyone's problems. It only makes them worse. And there are many women -- some that I know -- who attest to that. Our national abortion rate did not begin to go down until after the government began funding abstinence-only education programs. The Prevention First Act will only increase abortions and the problems that go with them.

Thank you for your consideration of my position on this important issue.

I would appreciate a response to my letter.

Sincerely,

[Signature]
Jane Doe

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