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    The poem Valery as Dictator, written by LeRoi Jones, is about segregation and the hardships of the African-American society waiting for their equality in America. It’s upsetting to LeRoi how often the African Americans needs are pushed aside constantly. He questions why are we waiting. At the time this poem was written America was under the “separate but equal” doctrine that allowed states to enforce segregation while giving the whites and blacks “equal opportunity” when in reality the African…

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    Some agencies they make a legal document that both the surrogate mother and the commissioning parents cannot part during the pregnancy. In surrogacy process the woman rents her body for other couple. This should be a new form of exploitation and trafficking in women. In surrogacy process, the child is treated as a mean for earning money or the object of a legal agreement. The main goal of surrogacy is to fulfil the wish the of couple, to enable foreign parents to satisfy their need for a child…

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    Why Is Abortion Bad

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    Contrary to the popular idea that abortion is bad, I think abortion is a good thing because it can save the lives of young people. Now I know that sounds bad because you’re taking a life to save a life but hear me out. On the other hand, I do not think you should be able to have more than one. I say this because it should be okay for someone to have a second chance because having a child can change your life. For the good or for the bad. Many people can argue and say abortion is a bad thing and…

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    Wrongful Life

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    individual. A focus on various legal cases, such as R.H. v. Hunter, [1996] and Arndt v. Smith, [1997], that the burden of wrongful life and wringful death inordinately shift the shame of ‘existing” onto the disabled person in the Canadian court of law. A…

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    rejected by the medical community, that a fetus can feel pain at that point in pregnancy. Article says “Abortion would be banned if Roe v. Wade were to be…

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    anything in the constitution except for how it is interpreted. Just by changing how the constitution is interpreted, the judicial branch is able to change it so that it can support the ideals of the present society. Such can be demonstrated in the case Roe v Wade. Prior to this case, it was looked down upon for people to be supporting abortions. However, after this case interpreted the Constitution to respect the privacy of people, and for the privacy to include abortions, many more people began…

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    Between 2002 and 2012, 83% of people who were stopped and frisked were black or Hispanic. f) The Center for Constitutional rights filed a racial-profiling lawsuit against the city. B.3 The standards of Stop-and-Frisk resulted from Terry V…

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    In the case of Planned Parenthood of Southern Pennsylvania v. Casey, which was argued on April 22, 1992 and decided on June 29,1992, reviewed the various obligations and actions women along with young girls had to undergo in order to fully proceed an abortion. In the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act, which was passed in 1898, required females to provide a type of consent in order to be taken in as a patient. According to the “Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation,” this meant that if the patient was…

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    Abortion is an emotional and controversial subject that raises political, ethical and social debates. This issue raises challenging ethical dilemma with regard to the fetus moral status and the moral nature of the act. It also evokes legal concerns on the rights of the fetus and human rights. Abortions evoke many ethical debates and is one of the leading issues in the United States. The debates on this subject have remained vibrant over the years with little change on long held perspectives,…

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    “If a mother can kill her own child-what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me-there is nothing between” -Mother Teresa. Abortions, has been around for many years and in each year there are 1.1 million U.S. abortions made. Approximately 51% of abortions are performed on women less than 25 years of age. Abortions should be illegal because it makes irresponsible, it can cause health problems, for the mother or family, and it also kills innocent children. Women have used abortion, known…

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