People and Their Decisions

            Today people have the rights and freedom to do as they please. Unfortunately, we have rights that seem to affect other people and their beliefs. People judge people for no specific reason and I believe it’s not our right to judge, and at the end of time it isn’t really up to us. Women who become pregnant and don’t want to keep the fetus isn’t really up to us we aren’t the ones having to raise it. Also, women who have a problem getting pregnant the normal way are getting eggs planted by doctors and are able to get pregnant. Technology has come a long ways. The views and opinions of everyone else have made it a hot topic. My opinion is not to judge the situation unless you have been in their shoes and then decide, but not judge it’s not out place! My questions are would you want somebody raising you that didn’t want you to begin with? Or would you like to be with somebody who loves and adore children and can provide for you? I honestly think that neither the government nor anyone should tell you what you can or cannot do on such a life changing decision.

            Everyone has their views on people getting abortions. Is it really their choice to make? I think it’s a life decision to raise a child that was not planned or won’t get treated with the love a child needs. I feel like the kids that cause lots of problems feel like they were neglected and abused. Could this be why crime rates are up? Could this by why there seems to be so much hatred in the world today? Because a person decided to have a child because of the guilt of getting an abortion and what people would think of her. With technology today women can have kids that have issues with getting pregnant through natural ways. They have the knowledge to inject the sperm in the egg and implant it in the woman’s uterus to grow an embryo. They also have adoption and foster parents for people to have children to. I think all of these ways for people to have children but it makes you think why get an abortion? What kind of legal rights do you have if you choose abortion? Does the father have rights to choose against it? Can kids under 18 years of age have an abortion without parents’ consent? What does the government say about it in debate?

            Abortion to me unlike some people is a big decision that changes a life. The woman who generally get abortions have part time jobs, no health insurance, already parents that only have $30 left from their paycheck and spend it on food for the family or birth control pills. Some also get abortions from domestic poverty, domestic violence rape, inset, AIDS, homelessness or hopelessness. These are all from WRRAP foundation that helps women during this rough time. WRRAP stands for Women’s Reproductive Rights Assistance Project, this is a foundation that is ran by volunteers and the money that is raised is spent on helping women with nowhere else to turn to.

            By the statistics from WRRAP only 17 states provide financial aid; 14 of them do so under court order. With these crazy statistics 50% of chief-residents have no clinical experience in doing this procedure or training for a life-saving abortion. Over 54% of unwanted pregnancies are the result of failed birth control. Between the years of 1994 and 2000 the overall abortion rate dropped 11%, but the rate for poor women increased 7%. The United States abortion providers decrease 2% between the years of 2000 and 2005. There are fewer doctors each year who know how to help, and doctors that are even willing. With WRRAP help 1000 women who could not afford the abortions. In order to get help from WRRAP you have to be at least 10 weeks pregnant to even get help.

            Children are able to get an abortion under the age of 18 in some states. Few states allow this. There are different laws into the abortion rights, but that allows it where the parental consent is not allowed. This makes it very scary in my eyes! The states that go through the judicial system a judge consent the minor has to give the following information in order to get an abortion, is the minor mature, is the minor emancipated and is the abortion in the best interest of the minor. The court must hear the case then in a short time usually 3 to 4 days. If the court has problems or any other questions they are going to have to appeal it and then try again. Majority of the time these cases don’t take months like a criminal case, because with this you only have so long before you can get an abortion before it’s too late. Parents of a pregnant teenager cannot force them into having an abortion or placing the fetus up for adoption. The only exception to this is if the pregnant teen’s life is in danger due to a medical emergency. The teen’s parents then have the right to permit an abortion against the teenager’s wishes. In these cases having a lawyer/attorney is not mandatory, but having one will make the communications and process a lot easier.

            Fathers of these unborn children do NOT have any rights or say so in the abortion topic. This is all on the woman who is pregnant. The father has no legal rights. The Supreme Court has made it easier for the women to go through this process without making it any harder than it already is. My luck would be if there were any rights towards the father of course they would want the baby at first and then what if he changes his mind. It’s not cool anymore or having second thoughts about raising this child. The father can up and leave or wait 9 months to make a commitment. The woman is the one who sacrifices more time and the body in order to raise this child. It just doesn’t seem fair to me to give someone more rights when it’s not their body that will be the one suffering. I know this is their child to, but you have to be smart and think of the future to. Some people would call this selfish I would call it being smart. With every decision we make through our whole lives will always have somewhat of a sacrifice later on or at the present time. We live and learn from them. Today there are so many young kids getting pregnant at such an early age, and it just seems so natural and ok. My sister was pregnant at the age of 15 and had a baby we considered the abortion but it was too late. The baby was already six months no one would even try to do it at that stage. The father was a low life bum and still doesn’t have a job or support any of his children that he was with several other girls! Is there any way the government can get people like that fixed?

            Between the years of 1969 and 1973, tens of thousands of women and men held hundreds of protests across the United States, making women’s rights to choose a central demand for the women’s liberation movement. We need activism to build that kind of movement and link it to the right to choose with full reproductive rights for all women. People live lives that are completely out of sync with the so-called family values of the Christian Right. Making one out of every three women today has an abortion and means that most people know someone who has needed one. The pro-choice movement should be fighting everything the Christian Right stands for. A movement that defends the right to abortion without apology will find millions of people on its side.

            Today’s life in the real world with politics Republicans are normally against abortions and Democrats aren’t technically for it but don’t pass that much judgment towards it. In the political debates democrats are pushing Mitt Romney to the discussing of reproductive rights in a bid to raise doubts among women. Romney says that “life begins at conception.” In 2005 Romney changed his view on abortion rights. Representative Michele Bachmam of Minnesota also says “life begins at conception.” In October they introduced a bill in congress to require women considering an abortion to have an ultrasound and listen to the fetal heartbeat. Declining to comment on what Bachmam spokeswoman called “state-issues.” Governor Rick Perry of Texas also declined to comment. In my opinion to decline any comments would be the best part because to me that can make or break you. Especially with the way votes go in today’s world. Today’s political views are different then what they used to be.

            Women’s reproductive rights are legal rights and freedoms relating to reproduction and reproductive health. Being a woman is tough! I personally think that all women deserve the right to decide what they want to do with their body. It’s theirs they are sacrificing not anyone else. So there should be no reason why anyone else should be involved. I also believe that today there are too many people trying to nosey their way into other people’s problems and issues. They should just worry about what they need and nobody else and I think the things with the reproductive rights would be a lot easier.

            In my conclusion don’t judge anyone until you’ve walked a mile or so in their shoes. A lifelong lesson I’ve learned growing up. Not everything in life is going to be easy if so there wouldn’t be a single person who would have to work for what they have or had. One thing I do say about abortions they can make life easier and tough at the same time. Unfortunately, life doesn’t have a rewind button, pause or fast-forward so we just have to make life the best we can. Abortion does have supporters and protestors just like everything else. It is a life decision that you have to make and do what’s best for you and your lifestyle. People don’t think of it that way! They just call people baby killers and what not. That is very much the truth but it is a responsibility you have to make. I know a girl that had an abortion and she’s perfectly fine with it and now has a little girl and another one on the way. Just at the time it was too much for her to handle with school, work and just life in general. I don’t think it’s a selfish thing to do. I think it’s a very hard decision! I think it’s protecting someone from being at a place where they are not loved or wanted. Because really who wants to be that out of place person? Not me.

Works Cited

            Abortion is every woman’s right. SocialistWorker.org. 23 April 2004. http://socialistworker.org/2004-1/496/496_06_Abortion.shtml.

Abortion Rights of Minors. LegalMatch. 1999-2011. http://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/abortion-rights-of-minors.html.

Parker, Ashely. Democrats Target Romney on Reproductive Rights. The Caucus. November 3, 2011. http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/democrats-target-romneu-on-reproductive-rights/.

Reproductive Rights. Wikipedia. 14November 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproductive_rights.

            Supreme Court Says: Father’s Have No Rights Over Child in Womb!.www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%America/Abortion%20is%20Murder/fathers_rights.htm

            Women’s Reproductive Rights Assistance Project. Our Mission. http://wrrap.org/.

            Women’s Reproductive Rights Assistance Project (WRRAP). Foundation. http://www.fundabortionnow.org/funds/wrrap.

The Corn King

The Corn King

            It is truly amazing on how much we rely on one crop that basically does nothing for the human body or the animals for meat. President Bush signed a farm bill to help the farmers out on the crop that costs more than it is actually worth. The government is making several different things with corn which makes the prices sky rocket everywhere else. Everything that we eat today basically has so kind of corn or corn byproducts in it. This is making the people prone to obesity and Type 2 diabetes. Why do we have to pay more when corn is the cheapest commodity and loses money?

            With as many overweight Americans we need to come to a stand point and make life changing decisions for ourselves and our future to make better decisions by not letting our government poison our bodies with this wasteful product that does nothing but make us sick! The University of Minnesota ran a study on how the corn is made into high-fructose corn syrup is metabolized different than other sugars making it harmful.  With corn you have to treat it with more fertilizers and pesticides than any other food making the run off of this into our ground water and then into rivers harming the water making it toxic. If we didn’t spend so much money on this corn bill for farmers we wouldn’t be so much in debt. In order to keep corn well fed and safe from predators with chemicals that poisons our water and deepens our dependence on foreign oil. Without the bill to save corn crops we would probably be able to do everything here ourselves instead of relying on other countries to do it for us! It would also be cheaper for us!

Works Cited

            Pollan, Michael. When a Crop Becomes King. New York Times. 19 July 2002. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/19/opinon/when-a-crop-becomes-king.html.

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I agree with you about the government using the corn for numerous amounts of things and it driving the prices up everywhere. I work in a feed store and the price of corn drives everything up even dog food. The government has so much relying on corn that it drains the American people. I believe that the government makes these laws and changes which hurt us Americans. The obesity rate here in America is high! That is why you see so much on television on people trying to lose weight. Corn is just filler to the human body just like it is to an animal, which is why to me it’s pointless to be so expensive for a commodity that does nothing for you. Just so the economy can rip people off on the byproducts that they can make from corn.

Obamacare in the GOP Campaign

            The government in the trouble it’s in especially financially our healthcare is a big mess. The government has come up with a plan on trying to make us Americans use and obey by their rules and regulations and how we see fit. This is completely outrageous! The media, e-mails and other things has been sent out to people explaining how crazy this healthcare bill that passed is. I can’t believe that this bill passed before anyone was able to read it. I believe to that if we Americans have to live by it then the congress should to. The whole idea of making laws and better ways of living is if it’s not good enough for congress then it shouldn’t be good enough for the rest of us. Why only exempt them?

            In my opinion politics aren’t what they used to be. Today there are so many things that people worry about all these different parties that you can be democrat, republican and liberal. Politics play a big part in today’s society with how they want to control everything and what they think they know best for the people of America. President Obama thinks that this healthcare bill is the break for a new era, but my personal opinion if you wouldn’t put your children on it then it’s not good enough for the people who trust in you as a president! Healthcare is a big deal with not only me but for everyone else. Medicaid and Medicare only help the elderly and the lower income families. So the insurance is what helps the others out and with rates going up, the deductibles sky rocketing, the limitation to use of it and it not being accepted everywhere.

            The Republican presidential candidates tell what they really think about this healthcare plan and how they would demolish this plan and put in a cheaper health care that will boost economic growth and develop more jobs for the people. The Republican Party view on this Obamacare is myth-making that may raise false hope for voters. Mitt Romney has been persistent about freeing the states from the law’s requirements with an executive order first day in office. Rick Perry‘s view is to lower health insurance premiums once the law is gone. Herman Cain views are to sign the repeal on March 23, 2013 if congress passes it. Signing the repeal the Republican Party thinks that it be able to grow the economy and jobs, and noting the overhaul’s myriad regulations and overselling the ability of one act of the legislative subtraction to lift all boats.

Mitt Romney states “One thing I’d do on Day One if I’m elected president is direct my secretary of health and human services to put an executive order granting a waiver from Obamacare to all 50 states. It is bad law. It will not work. And I’ll get that done on Day One.”-Claim in Sept.7 debate, which he echoed in most other debates (Woodward, Zaldivar).

Rick Perry states “And I’ll promise you, on Day One, as the president of the United States, that executive order will be signed and Obamacare will be wiped out as much as it can be.”-Sept. 7 debate (Woodward, Zaldivar).

Herman Cain states “I’m going to un-pass it on my son’s birthday.” Nov. 2-forum with the GOP’s Congressional Health Care Caucus. (Woodward, Zaldivar).

Michelle Bachmann sates “With all due respect…issuing an executive order will not overturn this massive law.” Sept. 7 debate. (Woodward, Zaldivar).

Unfortunately out of all these statements Michelle Bachmann is correct and it’s not the first time she has proven her rivals on the matter.

            We think or at least I do, think that Presidents are like the king and queens in other countries which they kind of are, but they aren’t exactly able to change things as fast as they want to or say they are going to. That is what the house, legislature and speakers are there for to make everything as fair as possible and to have votes on the topic. A president cannot overturn a law with an executive order. Moreover, the health law lays out an onerous process for letting individual states off the hook from its requirements; that process cannot begin until 2017. (Woodward, Zaldivar). In order for a state to be granted a waiver it has to provide coverage that is at least comprehensive and affordable as under the federal law. The state has to insure a comparable number of its residents, and its plan must not add to the federal deficit by shifting costs to Washington. The state has to enact to its own health law setting up the system envisioned in its waiver request. (Woodward, Zaldivar).  Romney’s implies that all states would want to get out of the health care law. That’s doubtful proposition for Democratic-leaning states. Cain recognizes that for the law to be repealed. Congress must act, but presidents don’t set the congressional calendar and even if Republicans can secure a 60-vote majority that gives them control over the Senate. (Woodward, Zaldivar). This strategy to undermine the law by starving it of money and it’s only real if Republicans win congressional majorities as well as the presidency or at the very least a rash of improbable Democratic defections in Congress. (Woodward, Zaldivar). This Obamacare is not a single day project it’s a threat to Obama’s law and a political risk. Budgeting is a big deal and going beyond this matter is repeal in the law. This law extends coverage to uninsured citizens and legal immigrants to provide tax credits to help the middle-class households to buy a policy and by expanding Medicaid for low-income people; requiring all people to carry health insurance either through an employer, a government program or by individual purchase. It would set up health insurance markets in every state to make it easier for individuals and small business to buy coverage and is financed through tax increases and Medicare cuts.

            With all this said the healthcare bill really could make or break us and it’s not really giving us what is all in the bill. Are we still going to be able to be treated if we have cancer? Is the government going to have control on how we will be treated under circumstances that are serious? The government’s involvements in health insurance kind of keep me from wanting the bill to go any further. The Republicans I believe will help keep this from happening and it will be better for our country. The Democrats seem to control the whole situation and wants to run the show. It just shows you that with three nominees running for President wants to cancel and abolish this healthcare bill just shows that it isn’t really a good enough to serve the rest of us. Like I said earlier if the bill excludes the senate and congress people then it’s not good enough for us either. There are reasons behind why this is such a big deal with the American people nothing about it seems fair or right.

Works Cited

            Woodward, Calvin and Zaldivar, Ricardo. “The Myths of Obamacare in GOP Campaign.” 2011. <http:www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45162703/ns/politics-decision_2012/>.

Attempts To Take Guns on Airplanes

            The number of attempts with people taking guns on planes is outrageous especially after one of the worst terrorist attacks in America; September 11, 2001. People are still trying to take guns, knives and other items that seem to be dangerous in their carryon bags. I’m from Texas and believe in guns and protecting yourself with taking different measures but there are rules and limitations you have to obey. “As of November 2, 2011 there has been over 900 guns recovered during the normal checks before boarding planes” from CNN News. Some people say they forget they had it in their bags which lead to Homeland Security boosting up their daily searches. Their budgets have increased by 68% since 2004 with the passenger levels staying the same. These problems could easily keep people and security officers off the edge and maybe keep the terrorist threat down. To me its common sense not to take guns, knives or any other kind of threat to innocent people lives. I’m not trying to push guns off to be bad but there is a time and place of where and when you can have them on yourself and planes to me are not one of them places. If I was a passenger on the plane with a person who supposedly forgot they had a gun in their carryon bag I wouldn’t feel as safe. My mind would be wondering if so what was their intention and how can you forget you have a gun? It wouldn’t be a peaceful trip because when your thousands of feet up in the air with nowhere to go what would you do? You can’t call the law, you can’t just land the plane, you can’t just run to the other side and it’s just a scary fact that there are people out there that don’t take this into consideration.

Work Cited

            Ahlers, Mike. TSA: Screeners find 4-5 guns on a typical day. 2 November 2011. http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/02/travel/screeners-guns/index.html?hpt=us_c2