| “There are states that require a parental consent for children under the age of 18 years.” There should be more substance to this point. The sentence stands alone and leaves the reader wondering. | What is your favorite part of this piece of writing? | “When a woman decides that abortion is the way to go it not an easy decision to come to there may be factors that they need to look at. When a women is pregnant and they are excited at the fact that they are pregnant all of that joy can be shattered after an ultrasound is performed and the women is informed that her child is going to have no functional daily life and is going to be hook up to a ventilator for the rest of his/her life.” This is a very strong personal opinion that I completely agree with.
Erdrich uses character to show that blood relation doesn’t mean love. The birth mother of the narrator shows no love to her child from birth. When asked if she wants to try and save her disfigured child, she answers with a swift “No!” However, Betty, the janitor at the hospital, nurses the child, Linda, and decides she would keep it with out even being asked. Betty and her husband Albert begin to try to raise and perfect Linda. They wake her up early and help her stretch her legs in hope that they will one day be straight/normal.
When Sunny came to the decision to have the abortion, it was one that had to happen overnight, without a nurse since Sunny had gone past the allotted time to have an abortion, nearing full term. When the doctor is convinced to do the procedure for Doc regardless, Doc insisted that he be the one to stand in for the doctors nurse. The act of helping in the procedure is seen as Doc's way of making sure the abortion goes correctly, since the only other abortion he experienced in his past is the one of K, done gruesomely wrong. Doc had been told upon meeting K that she was pregnant, but he did not want to believe her to be so. The only way he comes to believe is by seeing the “tiny, elfin form” that the men had cut out of her body during her death (305).
The study focused on women who were turned away from abortion because their baby was too far along and from the results they discovered that “76% of the "turnaways" ended up on unemployment benefits, compared with 44% of the women who had abortions.” These statistics oppose the question of if this is the best situation for the mother and the child. Is it better if the baby is never
Ms. Saylor English 105 3 April 2012 Word count 786 A Response to “For better; for Worse” The main idea of Stephanie Coontz’s “For Better; For Worse” is that through the years society has looked at marriage differently (171-175). The author begins the essay with an example of a 90’s TVs show Murphy Brown whose main character was attack by Vice President Dan Quayle, because she decided to have a child out of Wedlock. Vice President Quayle attacked her because the show failed to defend traditional family values by encouraged teens to abandon marriage. For example, in paragraph two she tells us that “marriage is no longer the main way for societies regulate sexuality and parenting or organized the division of labor between men and women” (171). Another example in paragraph two is that “although some people hope to turn back the tide by promoting traditional values, making divorce harder or outlawing gay marriage they are having to confront a startling irony: The very factors that have made marriage more satisfying in modern times have also made it more optional" (171).
When faced with an unexpected pregnancy, how does one make a decision to terminate the baby or not? In our society, many teenage girls are having abortions without their parents’ consent. Why? Well there are several reasons teenagers choose not to tell their parents about their pregnancy. Not only are teen mothers not ready for parenthood; some of them may have parents encouraging them to get the abortion.
(a) Thomson used some cases as the violinist, the open windows to establish thought experiments to argue that abortion is permissible in most cases. She assumed the fetus is like a violinist who has a fatal ailment and need to plug into a person for nine month to be cured, the person is like a pregnant woman. If you are the person to be plugged into, will you keep it to let the violinist survive or unplug it to let him die? In the open windows case, fetus becomes a seed which drop from the sky and pregnant woman becomes the owner of a house. The seed will take root in the house if it gets into the house.
I would ask these questions of a man because some men not all tend to say they will but when it comes time to actually stand up and be a man they disappear like a ghost. Therefore, I feel like the choice should be the woman alone being she has to bare the burden/joy of raising a child alone There are a lot of issue to deal with when it comes to abortion, does are just some of the select few. I personally would advice any woman against abortion do to my own personal experience in which took me some years to get pass. But I do feel that a woman has the right to decide what goes into her body as well as comes out. So, who are we to decide a major life altering event in a woman’s life?
When the author was young she used to have to call people on the phone and act as if she was her mother in order to get people to pay attention to her like when she had to yell at her mother’s stockbroker for not sending a check. In a different occasion when her mother went to the doctor to get the results of a CAT scan, the doctors ignored her when she complained about them losing her results. It wasn’t until Tan talked to the doctor that they apologized and cared to solve the
It must have been the Americans; they were in there now, we would meet them” (118). The dead bird symbolizes her feelings about losing what she wanted to authority figures. She lost her child to an abortion she had as a teen because her boyfriend-authority figure-made her think the abortion was the right thing to do. “…I’ll start inventing them and there will be no way of correcting it, the ones who could help are gone” (70). To the old Canadians, many believed that the Americans were corrupted people.