Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Food Stamps
Recently my mother applied to get food stamps. She is a hard working parent who supports her three children, works a full time job as a waitress, and can barely make rent tagged along with the rest of her bills. She gathered check stubs from all the members in the family who work in the household, and applied for food stamps. My mom all eager to actually get a break from her financially frustrating bills listens as the representative tells her that she is denied. Why? "Were sorry mam, but it appears that your household makes to much money." How can a single woman make to much money to support 3 kids, herself, pay all of her bills, all while working as a waitress making less than $4.00/ hour? Explanation: They put all of our taxes together as a whole. I did not agree with this, primarily because I believe that the explanation was a loop hole in the system- so that the government wouldn't have to pay nearly as much. I mean think about it from a logical sense. I work a full time job, pay for college, and support myself entirely dispensing all of my earnings toward bills, gas, and any other misc. I put absolutely nothing toward my family's income. The same rules apply to my brother who is a year younger than I. So is it fair that my earnings and his earnings are placed with my mothers earnings contributing at least twenty-four hundred dollars toward a monthly income that we don't share with our mother? I don't agree, the government makes it really hard for those who work really hard out there at minimum wage, but give money to those families who are lazy and don't work at all.
Friday, September 10, 2010
SHOULD ABORTIONS BE LEGAL?
Abortions have been an incredibly important topic of controversy for for some time now. What is an abortion? What are the Pros and Cons of taking the life of a premature being? Should Abortions be performed legally in the U.S.?
Also called voluntary abortion. Aborting is the removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus in order to end a pregnancy (www.dictionary.com) . Do we have the right to decide? Or was it against God's will for us to take eachothers life? Is an embryo alive? Does it feel pain? So many questions and so many different opinions to take into consideration.
Pros:
1. A fetus is not a human being. Abortion is terminating a pregnancy, not a baby. Personhood at conception is not a proven biological fact. Personhood begins at birth(http://abortion.procon.org/).
2. According to PhD, Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham (England), fetuses are incapable of feeling pain when an abortion is performed. The biological development necessary to support pain experience does not occur until birth (http://abortion.procon.org/).
3. The anti-abortion position is usually a religious belief and threatens the vital separation of church and state. Religious ideology should not be a foundation for law in the United States (http://abortion.procon.org/).
4. Abortion gives couples the option to choose not to birth babies with severe and life-threatening medical conditions. Fragile X syndrome, the most common genetic form of mental retardation, affects about 1 in 4,000 males and 1 in 8,000 females. One in 800 babies have Down Syndrome, and one in 3,500 babies are born with Cystic Fibrosis. It is not right to sentence a child to life with an acute handicap (http://abortion.procon.org/).
Cons:
1. Unborn babies are innocent human beings from the moment of conception. They have a fundamental right to life which must be protected (http://abortion.procon.org/).
2. The Sixth Commandment of the Bible's Old Testament (Exodus 20:13) is "Thou shalt not kill." Abortion involves killing a human being and defies a commandment from God (http://abortion.procon.org/). Does this matter in America being a Religiously Free Country?
3. According to Janet L. Hopson, science textbook writer and instructor at San Francisco State University, fetuses are capable of feeling pain by week 12. Abortion is wrong because it inflicts pain on a living defenseless human being(http://abortion.procon.org/).
4. The original text of the Hippocratic Oath, the oath that doctors traditionally take when swearing to practice medicine ethically, forbids abortions. One section of the oath reads: "I will not give a woman a pessary [a device inserted into the vagina] to cause an abortion." The modern version of the Hippocratic Oath written in 1964 by Luis Lasagna also forbids abortion in its line, "Above all, I must not play at God." (http://abortion.procon.org/).
Also called voluntary abortion. Aborting is the removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus in order to end a pregnancy (www.dictionary.com) . Do we have the right to decide? Or was it against God's will for us to take eachothers life? Is an embryo alive? Does it feel pain? So many questions and so many different opinions to take into consideration.
Pros:
1. A fetus is not a human being. Abortion is terminating a pregnancy, not a baby. Personhood at conception is not a proven biological fact. Personhood begins at birth(http://abortion.procon.org/).
2. According to PhD, Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham (England), fetuses are incapable of feeling pain when an abortion is performed. The biological development necessary to support pain experience does not occur until birth (http://abortion.procon.org/).
3. The anti-abortion position is usually a religious belief and threatens the vital separation of church and state. Religious ideology should not be a foundation for law in the United States (http://abortion.procon.org/).
4. Abortion gives couples the option to choose not to birth babies with severe and life-threatening medical conditions. Fragile X syndrome, the most common genetic form of mental retardation, affects about 1 in 4,000 males and 1 in 8,000 females. One in 800 babies have Down Syndrome, and one in 3,500 babies are born with Cystic Fibrosis. It is not right to sentence a child to life with an acute handicap (http://abortion.procon.org/).
Cons:
1. Unborn babies are innocent human beings from the moment of conception. They have a fundamental right to life which must be protected (http://abortion.procon.org/).
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3. According to Janet L. Hopson, science textbook writer and instructor at San Francisco State University, fetuses are capable of feeling pain by week 12. Abortion is wrong because it inflicts pain on a living defenseless human being(http://abortion.procon.org/).
4. The original text of the Hippocratic Oath, the oath that doctors traditionally take when swearing to practice medicine ethically, forbids abortions. One section of the oath reads: "I will not give a woman a pessary [a device inserted into the vagina] to cause an abortion." The modern version of the Hippocratic Oath written in 1964 by Luis Lasagna also forbids abortion in its line, "Above all, I must not play at God." (http://abortion.procon.org/).
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