Pregnancy discrimination

before a judge any female under the age of 21 years who proves unmanageable or incorrigible." The act enabled the government to take women between the ages of 16 and 35 into custody and discipline them for acting on behaviour such as promiscuity, pregnancy out of wedlock and public drunkenness. The act wasn't repealed until the year 1958. A magistrate ordered for Velma to be incarcerated with a 10-month sentence at the Mercer Reformatory for Women in Toronto. While still at the reformatory…

people choose when to kill their baby? Once you are pregnant, there is already life. The opposing side believes that in the first few weeks of pregnancy, there is no human life which is incorrect. The baby begins life in the first week. A lot of people believe in abortions is because of occasion. Examples of occasion taking place could be rape, teen pregnancy, or a sickness the mother may have. I do understand why you would abort a baby if you get raped or have HIV those are things that can end…

Their mission is to prevent unwanted pregnancies by teaching sex-ed, family planning, and providing several health services (PPFA 1). “The ability to have contraceptives has lowered the monetary gap between males and females by 1/3 in just the nineties. In ‘09, females earned over 1/2 of all US…

For this paper, I will analyze the essay ‘No Name Woman’ written by Maxine Hong Kingston. This was a roller-coaster of a story with high emotions and dark secrets reveled throughout the essay. Kingston’s culture is known as family oriented and strict, through her essay she shares her family story and how this culture affected her family personally. Being Chinese decent, she was raised in a very strict, superstitious, tradition holding household. She goes on to explain to us, how her mother…

In Gail Collins’, “When Everything Changed”, Collins writes about the path of American women from 1960 to the present day. Collins describes the series of events that led to where we are today, examining the moments in time when things began to shift and women began to observe changes in society, taking the opportunity to facilitate the changes they wanted to see. However, rather than it being a single moment when everything shifted, Collins describes the accumulation of events as well as…

Imagine being able to select how one’s offspring will look; the sex, the hair colour, athletic ability, and even intelligence could all be chosen. Designer babies, or build-a-baby, are typically thought of in context of science fiction, but the possible technology used create them already exist. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), created in 1989, was one of the first iterations of a genetic profiling technology that could literally allow people to ‘design’ their offspring. It works in…

For years, affirmative action policies attempted to iterate the idea of racial discrimination by giving minority applicants a leg up in the admissions process. Nowadays, taking action to end racism is the challenge and responsibility of every single person in our society. The admissions process is very fickle, but it must be understood to make light of the situation. Recently, diversity and affirmative action have been a popular topic of conversation causing large debates to emerge: whether or…

Every chapter, every page, and every line the reader can tell there is a societal division. A focusing theme in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner. The characters and readers are all aware of the effects of the caste system in Afghanistan during the time spent there by the protagonist, Amir. The unique point of view in which Hosseini, describes the societal conflicts allows the reader to gain insight on both, Afghan society and various characters. Throughout the novel, there is a difference…

My two previous blog posts were created by merging my analysis of the topics mentioned with my own personal experiences. For today’s blog post, I would like to take a different approach in analyzing the modules presented in our class. Today, I would like to reply to a video I have seen posted on a friend’s Facebook wall. The video was created by Lauren Southern, a very outspoken anti-feminist. Currently living in Langley, she is part of the Libertarian Party and has studied Political Science at…

An Analysis of “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” Hurston’s audience is not explicitly specified but she seems to be talking to society in general. She arranges her essay in a way where the true purpose of her argument is not stated to the reader until she’s almost done with what she has to say. Her main argument is that skin color is just skin color and that on the inside, people are all the same. She alludes to it throughout her speech and gives many examples that serve to support what she will…