Roe v. Wade

The governmental issue that I decided to write about is a controversy that has honestly arose across our country over in the past few decades, the pro-life pro-choice debate. The history of abortion can be traced all the way back to ancient times, but the first time that the United States truly faced this disagreement, as a nation, was in 1973, with the case of Roe v. Wade. Roe v. Wade was a landmark case where a woman challenged the Texas laws criminalizing abortion. In this case the Supreme Court held that a woman may abort her pregnancy for any reason, up until the point at which the fetus becomes viable. This radical case provoked a national debatethat continues today, over issues including whether and to what extent abortion should be legal, who should decide the legality of abortion, what methods the Supreme Court should use in constitutional adjudication, and what the role should be of religious and moral views in the political sphere. Roe V. Wade lead to a massive spilt of our nation, into pro choice and pro-life factions. I am pro-choice; I believe that every woman has the choice of when they decide to get pregnant and whether or not to conceive a child. I feel that women need to be responsible in doing everything they can to avoid having an unexpected event happen, by being safe and staying protected. With all things aside, I know that mistakes do happen, event in the most protected situations, and that women possess the legal right to their body and whether or not they conceive a child. I think that there needs to be a bill passed that declares that all women are able to receive cheap and accessible birth control. This will decrease the amount of abortions performed as well as the amount of parentless children.

Does the Punishment fit the Crime?

When I came across this article, I have chosen to critique, it completely blew my mind how impeded our school systems are in dealing with punishment for the children, of our nation. The article, I have found in the Austin American Statesman, explains informs the reader of a situation involving a Delaware first-grader, by the name of Zachary Christie. He is a six year-old who attended Downes Elementary School and had “wanted to eat lunch at school with is favorite camping utensil, a combination of folding fork, knife and spoon.” Now, because of Zachary minor poor decision he “now faces forty-five days in the district’s alternative school for troublemakers.” In this school, the Douglass School, the children are to participate in behavior modification programs and receive counseling. Now, in my opinion, really don’t feel like a six year old child, who decided to bring his favorite camping tool to school in order to show his friends, during lunch, really deserves to the sentenced to attend a school, in which he has to partake in behavior modification programs. I mean this situation is completely insane. How can you punish a child for bringing something to lunch that the school provides for the children during lunch, in the first place? I don’t feel a child that ages mind completely understands the concept that they cannot bring such instrument from home. I completely understand that the child should get some sort of minor punishment for bringing the tool to school, but nothing as drastic as sending the child to an alternative school. Even Terry Schooley, State Democratic Rep. and former Christina school board member, stated this about the Douglass School, “If it were my child, I would do everything not to send my child there.” So why have they decided to send Zachary Christie there for this petty crime. http://www.statesman.com/search/content/shared-gen/ap/National/US_Zero_Tolerance_Boy.html

A end to the Sexual Violence

The article I have chosen deals with a huge problem that has occurred countless times during the existence of human beings and it continues to take place throughout our world, sexual violence in war zones. From the beginning of the time men have wrongfully and unjustly dehumanized women and children by sexually harassing and raping them. I strongly agree with this article that it is time to put a stop to the sexual violence that takes place in war zones, as well as everywhere across the world. I believe that these acts of sexual behavior are the most criminal weapons used in ripping apart the lives of, not only, the victim but also the whole community and eventually all of human kind. I strongly agree with Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, that “It is time for all of us to assume our responsibility to go beyond condemning this behavior to taking concrete steps to end it, to make it socially unacceptable, to recognize it is not cultural, it is criminal. We must act now to end this crisis." The fact that both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have both stepped up to voice their opinions, on this topic, and have acknowledge that this is huge problem makes me extremely proud to be a citizen of this country. But, I know to truly put a end to violence in war zones around the world it is time that the leaders of every nation step up to protect the rights women and children across our wonderful planet.
http://www.statesman.com/search/content/shared-gen/ap/US_Presidential_Cabinet/UN_UN_Sexual_Violence.html