Tuesday, February 21, 2017

When can I break a law

Controversial Law
The unjust law that I want to write about this week was the one that Trump recently passed where he signed an anti abortion executive order. Through the years this policy has been re-instated and rescinded. Where Obama got rid of this law only for Trump to come and bring it back. The law prohibits giving U.S. funding to international nongovernmental organizations that offer or advise on a wide range of family planning and reproductive health options if they include abortion ― even if U.S. dollars are not specifically used for abortion-related services.

What I think about this Law and the situations in which this law will be broken
This law is horrible because this could be deadly for women. If a woman feels she cannot access a hospital for an abortion then she may resort to a dangerous method of doing so. An estimate of more than 21 million women a year have unsafe abortions and 13 percent of those women die.

Women will break this law because they should have a choice. Now I am not by any means putting my own feelings on this topic out there but I simply want to state that women have different feelings on this subject but the one thing I can agree on is that women decide what happens with their body and no one else. No man should ever have the power to decide without a woman's opinion.

So he did not actually make abortions illegal but he is preventing funding for them to make it harder for women and that is unjust.  Especially when Trump seems to be doing everything he wants regardless of what the majority of Americans think.

Link
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38729364

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/23/politics/trump-mexico-city-policy/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-global-gag-rule_us_58822355e4b070d8cad1f774?2h0qxx9cl5edrc0udi

2 comments:

  1. Private Plum, don't forget to put your ideas in the context of one or more of the readings (Plato, King, or Rawls). How do your ideas relate to theirs?

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  2. Private Plum, don't forget to put your ideas in the context of one or more of the readings (Plato, King, or Rawls). How do your ideas relate to theirs?

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