around the world. There are those who are opposed to abortions, pro-life, and those who don’t necessarily have a problem with a woman making the decision to terminate her pregnancy, pro-choice. In 1868, thirty-six states had laws prohibiting abortions at any stage of a woman’s pregnancy, Texas being one of the thirty-six states. By 1965 all fifty states had laws making abortion a crime except in extreme cases, such as when the life of the woman was in danger. Abortion laws in the United States…
I chose to interview my boyfriend’s Aunt Jamie about participating in the Blue Lives Matter movement. She explained that she is still an active member of the movement and that their goal is to recognize all of the positive things that the police do for the community and to strengthen support from the community. Aunt Jamie heard about the Blue Lives Matter movement through Facebook when people she knew began posting about the New York City incident when two NYPD officers were murdered right…
For a logical response to Jerome’s androcentric criticism of women practicing free will and control over their own bodies, one could look to Beverly Harrison, a professor of Christian Ethics. Harrison defends women’s rights to their own bodies, stating that abortion could be considered not only “morally justifiable,” but “a moral good, because it is not rational to treat a newly fertilized ovum as though it had the same value as an existent, pregnant, female person.“ She goes on to say,…
that hold a "pro-life" view argue that a woman who has an abortion is…
civilizations around the world. Throughout America’s history, oppressed groups have tried to accomplish certain goals using certain means of innovations and movements. Between Feminism and Civil Rights movements, they each have wondered what could be done to better their lives. Feminism’s roots began in the 1800s from the curiosity of what life would entail in a world where women could divorce their husbands, and where they could control birth rate, and pregnancy. Such innovations like safe…
Hugh V. McLachlan tackles this question in his piece “Bodies, Rights, and Abortion” where he contends the idea of not owning one’s body simply because others say that you cannot. McLachlan mentions : “that talk of ownership of one’s person rather than of one’s body is absurd. A person cannot be distinguished here from what the person is being said to own,” hence displaying how unethical and enological it is for women in America to be expected to adhere to the laws that are not made to benefit…
Latin American social movements have stimulated silenced divisions of the community including indigenous people, students, LGBT, the unemployed, undereducated and all those who have been excluded from the promised ideal globalized economy. The movements, which include non-violent protests; maintaining culture; and addressing the educational achievement gap have deployed a wide array of strategies and actions which have been outcome oriented. The movements have helped to synthesize old ways of…
This opinion is overall misguided and erroneous. Thus, activism is vital to human society to move forward and to ensure a brighter future for generations to come. One of the main components of activism is human and civil rights movements. There is a myriad of movements and revolutions…
(2003), ‘social movements are challenges to authorities that use a broad range of tactics, both inside and outside of conventional politics, in an effort to promote social and political change” (p. 30). Therefore, feminism, is in fact a social movement. As a social movement, the feminist movement, also known as the women’s movement, is very large, with varied goals related to equality. In addition, there are many different organizations involved that target the specific goals of the movement.…
and … saying that you’re not terminating life. It is life. It’s going to be a life… A fetus cannot support itself on its own, but it’s going to become a human being sometime … You’re weighing the goodness of saving a woman’s life, who you know if she doesn’t get an abortion, is going to go to get an illegal abortion. Dr. Tamis describes ‘the relationship of a woman having an abortion and helping her’ as important ‘because you know you’re saving the life of that living patient.’ However, when…