DRAFT
To the United States Senate:
We the undersigned Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Brett Kavanaugh are writing this letter to you related to the confirmation proceedings in the Senate concerning the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court.
We wish to say to you the following:
Dr. Ford made her allegation to the Senate growing out of her sense of civic duty that she believes that sexual assault is a big societal problem, that, if a person has committed sexual assault, it is something that should be considered in whether the person should serve in a public office, and that public awareness of sexual assault should be raised in order to increase societal efforts to prevent sexual assault.
Judge Kavanaugh believes that Dr. Ford did the right thing in making her allegation to the United States Senate.
Our country, the United States of America, has been suffering under extreme polarization and division that is growing worse.
Dr. Ford's allegation against Judge Kavanaugh has significantly contributed to increasing the polarization and division.
Dr. Ford's allegation has resulted in enormous personal pain and fear for Dr. Ford and her family and for Judge Kavanaugh and his family, which personal pain and fear will last for their lifetimes.
Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh and their families bear no ill will towards one another.
Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh believe in the human capacity for growth, transformation and redemption.
Dr. Ford believes Judge Kavanaugh is a good person, as good a person as Dr. Ford thinks she will ever know. Dr. Ford believes that Judge Kavanaugh, as a judge, has been fair to all women and other persons who have appeared before him, and Dr. Ford has no doubt that Judge Kavanaugh will in the future be fair to all women and other persons who appear before him.
Dr. Ford, as a layperson, does not believe that the allegation she has made against Judge Kavenaugh disqualifies him from serving on the United States Supreme Court.
Dr. Ford believes that the reasons of civic duty that led her to make the allegation to the Senate have been fulfilled at this time.
Dr. Ford believes that withdrawing the allegation at this time will contribute positively to reducing the polarization and division in the United States, and that continuing with the allegation will further increase polarization and division in the United States
Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh believe that the big societal problem of sexual assault needs to be dealt with at many levels and on many fronts in the United States. These include law enforcement and other authorities being receptive to and responsive to charges of sexual assault; continued development of reporting and processing (including standards for due process) of sexual assault charges in schools, corporations and other institutions; educational programs teaching that sexual assault is wrong and how to prevent it; scientific research about how to reduce sexual assault, and increasing public awareness of the societal sexual assault problem by means of advertising programs and by informal means such as conversations within families.
Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh believe that the allegation that was made to the Senate will give more impetus to the foregoing ways that the United States is trying to reduce sexual assault.
While the allegation Dr. Ford made to the United States Senate has significantly increased public awareness of sexual assault and given more impetus to the ways the United States is trying to reduce sexual assault, Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh believe little additional is to be gained by continuing the allegation, and, as stated, continuing the allegation will have the very detrimental effect of increasing polarization and division in the United States.
While the personal pain and fear resulting from the making of the allegation has been enormous for Dr. Ford and her family and for Judge Kavanaugh and his family, for both of them, that personal pain and fear are mitigated by knowledge of the good that the making of the allegation has made for the United States in its addressing of the big societal problem of sexual assault.
For the foregoing reasons, Dr. Ford withdraws the allegation against Judge Kavanaugh that she has made to the United States Senate, and both Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh decline to say anything further to the United States Senate about the allegation.
Sincerely,
_______________________________ _____________________________
Dr. Christine Blasey Ford Judge Brett Kavanaugh
Dated: __________________, 2018
5/8/22
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