After looking at both sides of the argument, I am still left wondering why this is even an argument. The pro-choice website is all about the terrible things that the pro-life activists are making women go through in order to have the right to choose while the pro-life website is all about the terrible things that doctors do to "unborn babies". While I do agree that third week trimester abortions are dangerous, inhuman, and should be outlawed, I believe that anything before that is simply a women's right to choose and that is it. I believe that the pro-life side of the argument is winning the debate because of the emotional toll they put on women. They make women feel guilty about having the right to make choices over their own body. The pro-choice website provides options to stop unwanted pregnancy in the first place, which is the root of the problem. If every female had access to affordable birth control then the number of unwanted pregnancies would go down, thus the number of abortions would be decreased. If abortion becomes outlawed it will not solve the problem it would rather create women seeking abortions in more dangerous ways. It is simply a women's right to choose.
I do not believe that the parents need to be notified of an abortion when their child is under the age of 18, unless the child is in serious danger. I believe that parent notification will scare children into taking rash decisions to dispose of their fetus, thus putting them in harms way. If their is parent notification then they still should not have the right to consent to it, because no one should have to tell a women that they must have a baby. I also do not believe that father should be notified or allowed consent. The father is not the one having the child, they are not the ones to go through nine months of physical and emotional pain. I believe that as soon as we allow men to make choices about women's body's and give them that control, all of the work that women have gone through to achieve equal rights are no longer there. Ultimately it should be left up to the woman seeking the abortion because it is simply her choice, it is clearly a difficult choice that takes an emotional toll but the choice only involved herself. If our government takes about women's right to choice they are instantly putting us below men and controlling us, therefore the woman getting the abortion should be the only one that has to consent.
Illinois abortion laws I believe are reasonable except for the mandated consent law from parents and spouses. As stated before, it is a woman's right to choose, it is not her parents or spouses but simply hers. Illinois also makes abortion expensive to some people, which is very contradicting. Many women choose to not have their unplanned pregnancy due to affordability but creating abortion to be so expensive leaves women out of safe and secure options. I also do not agree with the idea of not being allowed an abortion after just 12 weeks, 12 weeks is still very early in the pregnancy. Many women do not find out that they are pregnant until 6 or 7 weeks into so only have 6 weeks to think about options is not a lot of time. I agree with Illinois providing abortion where it is necessary, such as low income woman. There are still restrictions on woman seeking abortions that should not be there, but for not woman can still have an abortion. These restrictions are created by pro-life activists and are used to scare woman out of abortion, so I do not see these activists as being pro-life. They do not think about the lives of women and how it is damaging them, they are really only thinking about having control over others.
Friday, December 31, 2010
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Death Penalty #3
The stages leading up to the death penalty can guarantee that no innocent person will be executed, but the problem is, is that it can be but is not. The court appoints an attorney if the defendant cannot afford one, this allows for everyone to have representation during their trail. This is very fair and creates a lesser chance of executing the innocent, but after they are proven guilty, "the constitution does not require that a defendant be provided with a lawyer representing him throughout the appeal process" (deathpenaltycurriculum.org), because the Constitution does not require this then many defendants do not get the opportunity to prove their innocence or get justice. The courts that are set up for appeal for death penalty cases help protect the innocent from being convicted, but only those who can afford it. This creates a problem with executing more innocent poor people than wealthier people. This creates the stages leading up to the death penalty to not guarantee innocence at all, rather it creates a separation of executions according to socioeconomic status.
The most human method of execution is lethal injection. No other method of execution should be allowed, it is cruel and unusual punishment. I do not know if I agree with the death penalty, but I do believe the process to be as painless and as smooth as possible. While there are flaws to every method, death by lethal injection is the least painless and appears to have the last room for error. I do believe though that the injection should be given by a qualified doctor to increase the success rate. All of the other forms of execution are forms of torture, and that is cruel and unusual punishment for our government to support the torture of a prisoner. The method of death by firring squad, hanging, electric chair, gas chamber, are not guaranteed to be a quick and painless death and the result of error is much more torturous than the government should be allowed because it causes them excruciating pain where lethal injection puts the prisoner to sleep.
While looking at the state by state data there was defiantly a trend in deaths and number of death row inmates according the regions. The southern part of America has many more executions than anywhere else. I think this is an issue that needs to be looked at seriously because having the government sentence someone to die should not be used for any other purpose than to get justice. I believe that some of these states may be abusing their power. Many states in the northern east part of our country do not even have the death penalty and if they do their number of executions is very low. The other thing I noticed was that the number of black people executed in the south is much higher than the number of white people executed in the south, where everywhere else in the country the number is much more even.
The current information about the death penalty today still leaves me unsure about it. I think there are many flaws and when dealing with someone else's life these flaws are not okay. I believe the idea of the death penalty is reasonable, that under certain circumstances it is the best way to achieve justice. I believe the representation for inmates on death row needs to be better or at least there, defendants that appear to be sentenced to death due to racial motivation need to be looked at closer even without an appeal, states should have a limit on the number of deaths, and lethal injection should be the only method for death. If the death penalty was a better system and was taken as seriously as it is by all states and all people then it could be used as a good method to achieve justice.
The most human method of execution is lethal injection. No other method of execution should be allowed, it is cruel and unusual punishment. I do not know if I agree with the death penalty, but I do believe the process to be as painless and as smooth as possible. While there are flaws to every method, death by lethal injection is the least painless and appears to have the last room for error. I do believe though that the injection should be given by a qualified doctor to increase the success rate. All of the other forms of execution are forms of torture, and that is cruel and unusual punishment for our government to support the torture of a prisoner. The method of death by firring squad, hanging, electric chair, gas chamber, are not guaranteed to be a quick and painless death and the result of error is much more torturous than the government should be allowed because it causes them excruciating pain where lethal injection puts the prisoner to sleep.
While looking at the state by state data there was defiantly a trend in deaths and number of death row inmates according the regions. The southern part of America has many more executions than anywhere else. I think this is an issue that needs to be looked at seriously because having the government sentence someone to die should not be used for any other purpose than to get justice. I believe that some of these states may be abusing their power. Many states in the northern east part of our country do not even have the death penalty and if they do their number of executions is very low. The other thing I noticed was that the number of black people executed in the south is much higher than the number of white people executed in the south, where everywhere else in the country the number is much more even.
The current information about the death penalty today still leaves me unsure about it. I think there are many flaws and when dealing with someone else's life these flaws are not okay. I believe the idea of the death penalty is reasonable, that under certain circumstances it is the best way to achieve justice. I believe the representation for inmates on death row needs to be better or at least there, defendants that appear to be sentenced to death due to racial motivation need to be looked at closer even without an appeal, states should have a limit on the number of deaths, and lethal injection should be the only method for death. If the death penalty was a better system and was taken as seriously as it is by all states and all people then it could be used as a good method to achieve justice.
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