...People in today’s society will do almost anything to escape harsh realities, even if it means getting rid of their own child. My grandmother was pregnant with my mom when she was only seventeen years old. Commonly, pregnant teenagers will often revert to abortion, to avoid judgement and because it seems like the easiest option. She could have easily “taken her problems away” by aborting the baby but instead she decided to have the child and give her up for adoption. I think even with the hardships that comes with childbirth women should reconsider all of the options before choosing to abort, just as my grandmother did. I think abortions should become illegal because there are other options a women can take instead of getting rid of the life...
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...Should Abortion be Illegal? The topic that I have chosen is as shown in the title is “Should Abortion be Illegal?”. I have read through some articles with many different opinions but have not come to a conclusion on my own, I can both agree and disagree with this certain topic. In the 1960s and early 70s the U.S began to repel their bans on abortion saying that abortion bans we’re unconstitutional. With this came the Roe vs. Wade which meant that woman have the right to make decisions about their own bodies. This is why abortion is still legal and may never become illegal. A reason in which some people agree that abortion should be made illegal is that I believe that killing your own child even though it is not fully developed is a terrible thing to do, and I personally believe that even if you do not want or can not support the child you still have other decisions then taking its own life. in a recent article that I have read it said made the point that murder is illegal, and the only thing preventing abortion from being included in the definition of murder is that it is currently not “unlawful” (Brown). Its also a known fact that the 14th Amendment was designed to protect the unborn therefore stating that abortion should not be legal. In a different article I read the author stated that “countries where abortion is illegal have a higher abortion rate than countries where abortion is safe and legal”(Johnson). Two important reasons in which I agree that no abortion should...
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...People in this world should care about getting an abortion because they are taking the rights from an unborn baby. The baby did not choose this, the parents did. Abortion should not exist. People are not even thinking about the fetus, they are just taking a life. It is also hard for women after they get an abortion. Women can die from getting an abortion, and they pay so much money to kill their baby. Abortion should be illegal because it is cruel and is killing a human being; adoption is a better way than getting an abortion. When the egg is fertilized, that is when a human life begins and exists (10 why). The baby's heart starts to beat at 20 days. Brainwaves then develop in the baby’s brain at 40 days (10 evil). At 20 weeks, the baby...
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...Alcohol should be illegal because it is just as dangerous as any other drug. Alcoholism has a characteristic course with known physical, psychological, and social symptoms. Once a person is addicted to alcohol, the individual continues to consume alcohol and he or she don’t even realize about the destructive consequences. While the particular symptoms and pattern of drinking problems may vary with the individual, the alcoholic can only regain control over his or her life by abstaining from the substance. Alcoholics not only put in danger their own life’s but the life of everybody around them. Alcoholism is one of the biggest problems in the United States and around the world. In America alone there are an estimated ten million active alcoholics (Dulfano, 1992). It is almost impossible to tell the exactly number of non-alcoholics affected by the disease. This number includes the battered spouses and children of alcoholics, the victims of drunk driving, and the employers whose alcoholic employees perform their work tasks with poor capacity. Searching more information about the topic I found out that a study in Great Britain revealed that the economic costs of medical bills, road accident damage, law enforcement expenses, unemployment and premature death related to alcohol amounts to an estimated 2.4 billion pounds per year (Economist, 1996). In the other side there are many people expecting marihuana to be legal, and that is ridiculous, first of all because it is perceived as...
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...When someone has a child, it is one of the greatest responsibilities that anyone could have because you are putting someone else’s needs in front of yours. When an unexpected pregnancy happens, women wonder whether they should keep the child or not. Abortion has been one of the main issues in America that has not been solved. My opinion about abortion is indifferent. I do not believe people should abort, but I do believe people should have the right to choose with reasoning. The reasons why a mother should abort their baby would be because of health issues or something happened to the mother which caused this unexpected pregnancy. By health issues, I mean if during labor or anytime during the pregnancy the mother could die or fatally ill. Another health issue would be, if the baby would become mentally retarded and the mother absolutely could not handle having a mentally ill child. No mother wants to see their child suffer day in and day out, but putting the baby at peace by aborting it would be okay. By something happing to the mother, I mean rape. When someone is a rape victim, it is never easy to cope with the idea someone forced you to do something you did not want to do. The mother would not be mentally or physically prepared to take care of a child....
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...Cyberbullying is a wrongful act that is commonly overlooked by modern society as being a crime. I think that cyberbullying should be declared unconstitutional and punishable by law. The practice of cyberbullying harasses the victimized person by using profane statements and gestures toward that person or persons. These attacks usually happen on social media websites. In 2008, a bill was introduced by representative, Linda Sanchez, to amend title 18 of the federal criminal code to impose penalties upon those guilty of cyberbullying. Congress finds many reasons cyberbullying occurs. Most teens have access to the internet. Congress' analysis shows, "Four out of five American children aged two to seventeen live in a home where they or their...
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...Why do illegal immigrants risk everything by trying to get in the U.S.A? They come in hopes of a better life, so they don’t have such a risk of being killed or the victims of other crimes, as a higher crime rate is quite common in central America and South America countries. Deportation also separates family members from each other, children from a parent, or children from both parents in some cases. Illegal immigrants that haven’t committed serious crimes shouldn’t be deported, instead they should have a path to citizenship instead of being forced to go back to the dangerous situations they started in. Deporting illegal immigrants will separate families, takes parents from children, and have lasting psychological effects on them. Parental deportation can have effects on children and long lasting harm can occur at emotional, economic, developmental and academic levels. The economic and social instability of having illegal status is worsened by having a deported parent. The second report states that economic hardship is highly prevalent following a parent deportation, because losing a parent eliminates a source of desperately needed income. Children with deported...
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...The two articles polled a collective 1,247 different people and roughly 75% (930 people) of them believe that they should be allowed to gamble on sporting events (Michael Buteau and PBS Newshour) . Even many prominent people such as the commissioner for the NBA, Adam Silver, think that gambling on sports would add to the appeal as well as bring more money into the game. If there are so many different lotteries and scratch offs available for purchase from the government then why can’t Americans use skill and knowledge of the game to bet on how a team or player will perform? Most people believe that gambling should be legal for citizens, but everyone agrees that players, coaches, and referees should never be able to gamble on the game or event they are affiliated with. Betting on sporting games would bring back the competitive interests that some of the sports are lacking in today’s society. Not only will it make people gain a revived interest in sports, it will also bring large tax revenue to the states that allow for the sports gambling to happen. The government should take advantage of this opportunity and legalize sports gambling while taxing the players who take part in...
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...Capital Punishment Should Be Illegal Capital Punishment Should Be Illegal Capital punishment has been legal, illegal, and as of now is legal again, under certain circumstances and depending on the location. These circumstances can vary from state to state and the federal government may also decide they have grounds to seek capital punishment, even if the crime is in a state that doesn’t allow the death penalty. With such uncertainty about whether capital punishment should be legal or illegal, it is important to take a closer look at some of the reasons why it should be illegal which include; the risk of innocent people being executed, evidence of racial bias in regards to sentencing for the death penalty, and the cost of the death penalty in comparison to the cost of life in prison without parole. In the end you will see that an eye for an eye is not the answer. Bedau set out to provide the information to show why the death penalty should be illegal. Bedau started out looking at the questions that have caused argument throughout the years in regard to the death penalty. The questions he sought to answer were: Is the death penalty more of a deterrent than imprisonment, is there racial bias when it comes to administering the death penalty, what are the risk that someone who is innocent could be prosecuted, and what is the risk that someone who is convicted of a capital offense will commit again? During Bedau’s research to determine if capital punishment is no more of a deterrent...
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...Medicinal marijuana has been illegal in the past almost everywhere. In many countries, the laws are usually fair but this law is not right. This article was going to be about Australia legalizing medicinal marijuana but as I was writing it, this had been legalized. Medicinal marijuana being illegal in many countries is an issue because it can be great for relieving chronic pain, some types of syndromes and can relieve many diseases. To stop helping people with these things seems cruel, doesn’t it? Some reasons why people think medicinal marijuana should be illegal is because it is addictive, I’m not sure if this is true but I’ve read from someone in USA who uses medicinal marijuana that this is not true. The other reason that people say medicinal...
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...Should Cigarette Smoking be Made Illegal? Name Institution Date A cigarette is a small cylinder like filled with cut tobacco leaves and rolled in a paper and ignited for smoking. In most countries, tobacco smoking is legal due to the businesses motives and also the people who are addicted. They cannot do without it. It has immense consequences, and it should, therefore, be illegal from the effects to the smokers, passive smokers and all the human beings due to the pollution of the environment. The following are some of the consequences from smoking tobacco: Smoking tobacco has no healthy benefit due to the diseases it brings to the smoker. The continued smoking leads to high risk of lung cancer, heart attacks, blood clots, browning of teeth and makes the breath and clothes to stink. These diseases especially the lung cancer has led to so many deaths of the cigarettes smokers and hence the making of the smoking illegal should greatly help in the decrease of these deaths. The smokers also cause these effects to the non-smokers (passive smokers) and they become victims of the same diseases especially to close members of the family and the pregnant women to the unborn where they are born unhealthy hence the cigarette smoking should be made illegal (Nelson,2012). Tobacco smoking leads to heavy tolerance and dependence to it and hence becomes addicted due to the nicotine in it. This makes the users have craved for it and difficult to stop using it. People who have psychological...
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...Prostitution is often called the world's oldest profession. It's been around since the beginning of time and can be traced back to ancient civilization. Prostitution hasn't stopped after thousands of years and it's not going to stop anytime soon. Prostitution is already legal in some parts of the world, but not in Canada and the United States. Pro-prostitution think prostitution should be legalized. They state that legalizing it would solve more problems than it would create and people could be protected from diseases, the streets could be kept cleaner, and prostitutes would have a safer working environment. Anti-prostitution demands that legal prostitution will increase the sex industry and human trafficking. Prostitution will hurt peoples. This is because prostitutes can cause a disease such as HIV. Pro-prostitution opposed that statement. Pro-prostitution demands that prostitution gives benefit to the customer because the customer gets their pleasure. It fulfils both people's needs. Even though prostitution is not legal, it will continue to happen. They will find a way around the law, and continue with their business. If it is legalized, laws can be made to keep prostitutes and people safer than they are now. Some people don't think much of prostitutes. Peoples think that the prostitutes who spread the disease. This is because most of the prostitutes are drug addicts which cause HIV. For the few bad ones, they would be the ones who would most benefit from legalization...
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...Marijuana Should Be Illegal Herlina Pryor BCOM/275 March 23, 2014 Instructor: Jamey Pippert Why Marijuana Should Remain Illegal Published: February 26, 1994 To the Editor: I read with concern "Legalizing Marijuana Would Allow Regulation of Its Potency" (letter, Feb. 13). According to the writer, marijuana with high levels of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC (the chemical that causes the psychoactive effects on the abuser), is not a new phenomenon, and this high potency should not be used as a reason to keep marijuana illegal. Marijuana is not the same drug it was 20 years ago. Special fertilizers, plant hormones and steroids, carbon dioxide and advanced indoor horticulture techniques are used by the informed grower to "push" the plant to produce the highest grade, most potent variety of marijuana, sinsemilla. Because of its potency, domestic marijuana is the most highly prized cannabis product in the world. In 1970, the average THC content of a marijuana plant was 1.5 percent. The THC content of today's sinsemilla variety ranges from 8 percent to 20 percent. Today's marijuana is a drug that is significantly more potent than it was during the Woodstock era. The writer then states that "if the Government really believes that stronger varieties of marijuana are less desirable, then it has one more reason to support legalization. If cultivation of marijuana were legal, growers would not be pressed to produce the strongest possible product, and health authorities would...
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...You’re in your house and you hear something downstairs you go to see and it’s a man with a gun. What do you do? That's why having guns be illegal is bad. We can't defend ourselves against other people that are going to break the law. Lee says that “Sales of guns by individuals who are not licensed firearms dealers; such transactions are sometimes exempt from gun control regulations such as required background checks” This just shows that if you are going to make people not allowed to have a gun then the people that are already breaking the law are just going to break another law and get a gun. By making guns illegal you are just making it easier for criminals to steal things. Another reason why guns shouldn’t be illegal is that it’s unconstitutional....
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...Should the death penalty be illegal? This is a question America has struggled with for hundreds of years, the answer to this question varies by person. Hammurabi's code very much valued the “eye for an eye” policy but we are long past the days where the American public is judge, jury, and executioner. The justice system has a come a long way from when it first began. Does giving someone a lethal injection or strapping them to an electric chair make you any less of a murderer? A life is still a life, no matter what way you choose to look at it. The way I see it, the idea of carrying out a life sentence and having to rot in a jail cell is enough of a deterrent. The 8th Amendment of the constitution forbids against “cruel and unusual punishment”...
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