Questions on Abortion

Coming into the unit of abortion I was uncertain of where I stood in terms of my stance for pro-life or pro-choice, but after viewing the film Unborn in the USA it gave me a little more closure to my opinion on this controversial topic. When watching this film I believe my views on the topic seemed to be leaning towards the pro-life side over the pro-choice side, but with regulations going along with it. I do believe that the government should have involvement with this topic because without government control only more violence would occur, and the actions of keeping it legal is the right thing to do. Though I am a pro-choice advocate I think the law should still be legal because it several situations the parents just do not have the ability to be able to raise a child and may be forced to have an abortion, so I believe this option should still be available to people in today's society. On the pro-life side of it where my opinion is swayed to, people should not have abortions because they are brutally ending the lives of infants who have a chance to succeed in this world and are not given any opportunities by the parents. This is a difficult topic for me to grasp because I am not strongly opposed to one side, but I think that the parents should at least give the children a chance to live and if they cannot afford to raise the child they can put it up for adoption and allow it to move on in their lives with another family. From the video Unborn in the USA there were clinics where abortions where occurring in the second trimester of pregnancy which is just completely unacceptable because they are causing extreme pain to these infants at this point and if mothers are going to have an abortion they should be having them way before the second trimester so that the infant doesn't feel any pain in the process. Abortion laws have been legal for years and the government should maintain this process, but I think that they have to step in and make some more regulations to the laws. They should make it illegal to have an abortion in the second trimester or later because through many researches the fetus feels pain at this point in the pregnancy and doctors should not have the ability to cause pain to these unborn children. Some states in the U.S. have different opinions on this topic causing them to avoid or promote the process of abortion by having more or less abortion clinics and it seems like the government cannot really do much to make a change to this process. The government should not be able to control how many abortion clinics there are in each state, but they should eliminate any abortion clinics providing late abortions. Overall this topic has been hard for me to be strongly opinionated on one side, but I believe that abortions need to stop occurring especially in the process of having them late in the pregnancy where it causes fetal pain and at the same time the government should keep abortion legal with regulations to give everyone the freedoms that are available in this country.

Newtown Shooting

On Friday December 14, 2012, 20 year-old Adam Lanza stormed into a elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut and killed the innocent lives of 20 children and 6 staff members making it the worse school shooting of all time. Prior to arriving to the school Lanza stole three guns from his mother's house where he shot her immediately. Lanza's mother was known for going target shooting with her sons on a regular basis which may have been one of the factors leading to Adam Lanza taking these guns and committing this terrible crime. This terrible tragedy can be compared to some of the shootings in the past such as the Columbine shooting, and Virginia Tech shooting, but this one involved the lives of several children that barely got a chance to live their life. There are many issues being discussed within this incident from gun control to mental illness, but I believe that the mental illness is the more important factor when dealing with these  problems. With the aspect of gun control people believe that since they have the right to bear arms from the Constitution that they have the ability to own these guns, but I think the restrictions for the people that own the guns needs to be much stricter and there needs to be an important reason for the owners to have the guns. Beyond the aspect of gun control is the problem of mental illness within the country that causes these psychos to act out and commit these unexplainable crimes. By some reporters on stations like ABC and NBC it was reported that Adam Lanza had a form of autism(aspergers) which may have been a factor into the choices that Lanza made in this crime. I did not see any full evidence yet that he had this condition, and I do not think this is the problem with his mental illness. I am not a doctor but Lanza must have had some mental illness going on in his head because people do not just go out and kill a bunch of innocent kids for no reason. There must something mentally wrong with him to go out and do this and there needs to be a change in this world so tragedies like this don't occur again. I believe President Obama should advocate to the world for people with any types of mental problems to go and see doctors/counselours to help solve their problems in some ways so this world could be much safer and can prevent these events from happening in the future.

Another Football Tragedy

On December 8, 2012 Dallas Cowboys Linebacker Jerry Brown was killed in a car accident involving a drunk driver. Early Saturday morning it was found that Josh Brent a close friend and teammate of Brown was intoxicated while driving his Mercedes-Benz on the highway at 2:30 in the morning where the car skidded off of the road, flipped at least one time and then went into burning flames. Brent who was driving the car was charged with intoxicated manslaughter after the incident and replied that he was "devastated with grief" as he was the man held responsible for the lost life of one of his best friends. Over the years there have been several incidents involving football players and their arrests of having DUI's and the numbers are only increasing. It is unbelievable of the stupid decisions that these players make as they work so hard to get to where they are in a successful position and then they throw it all away by choosing the make these decisions. The NFL has been cracking down of these players by suspending them indefinitely for their incidents with the law, but it doesn't seem as if they are making an impact on the decisions the players make. The NFL cannot do anything to make these players avoid these situations since they cannot tell them what to do, but I think the consequences should be more than a suspension of a few games. They should increase the amount of games the players are suspended and should fine them as well. The players are continuing to make these choices and a message needs to be sent by Commissioner Roger Goodell and the NFL Association to try and make a change to the culture of many of these players lives. Tragedies seem to occur every year involving players with arrests and deaths and this needs to come to a stop because it is causing hardships on the families of these players. The Cowboys were able to overcome the weekend tragedies and hit a game-winning field goal at the end of the game to get a win yesterday against the Bengals, and these teams try to use this as motivation to play better and dedicate their hard work to the ones affected. If found guilty on this incident Josh Brent could face up to 20 years in prison and these actions made may have ended his career as a NFL football player.