New Words List: Drifters, planners, class divide, Supreme Court, United States legislation, and groundbreaking.
Book title: Generation unbound: drifting into sex and parenthood without marriage (Book 1). Index whether planners are better than drifters, 592-608
Summary
Unplanned child and outside marriage births are increasing in the United States over the past years. The main causes of the increment in these births are poverty and the people’s culture. Also, while others are waiting to have children after marriage knows as ‘planners’, some individuals prefer outside marriage births, ‘drifters’. The wellbeing of a child is affected by the family structure, thus the author prefers the drifters to planners. The whole situation has led to the class divide and impacts the social lives of many in America. However, individuals should be allowed to have children when they are ready to be parents other than waiting for marriage.
Response
After properly looking into the rise of drifters in the United States, I argue that passing the Arizona laws of defunding Planned Parenthood not only leads to a rise in the number of outside marriages but also increases poverty levels. Many people cannot afford Planned Parenthood fees thus funding these services enables them to receive information on abortion, early pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases, and birth control methods. Besides, the lack of this information leads to many unplanned births since the individuals involved will not have the ability to support many children. The poverty levels can be controlled by being informed on the birth control methods which is only possible when funding the Planned Parenthood organizations does not cease.
Book title: Abortion (Book 2).
Section: Index is making abortion legal a good decision, 112-126
Passage#1
In 1973, Roe v. Wade made a decision that officially made abortion legal in the United States. However, the issue of abortion is different in each individual, religion, culture, or state. Access to birth control, developing women’s health care and Planned Parental organization has helped in the understanding of abortion.
Paraphrase
From the discussion above, every woman has the right to abort without being sued since the activity was legalized. The American government legalized abortion which led to an increase in the number of unwanted and early pregnancies. However, Planned Parenthood and other organizations are available to offer knowledge to women based on abortion and other health care services.
Response
Abortion is not good for the health since it does not only cause the death of an innocent child but also causes deaths or excessive bleeding to the woman undergoing the abortion. By defunding the Planned Parental organization, many women’s lives will be at risk. Not everyone can afford the services; hence funding the Planned Parental highly helps many people. Knowing abortion and birth control ways reduces the cases of abortion since women are aware of the risks involved. Moreover, birth control enables individuals to prevent unwanted pregnancies, therefore lowering the chances of abortions in America.
Section: Index what is the future state of abortion cases in America, 212-226
Passage#2
Due to the recent changes in the Supreme Court, the future of abortion access has become uncertain, thus causing women’s demonstrations, talks of their personal experiences and ground break of the United States legislation. Women are furious over the future criminalizing of abortion in the United States.
Paraphrase
The Supreme Court is yet to illegalize abortion in the United States due to the increased number of abortion cases. However, the citizens are not into the idea leading to protests and experience talks by women in America to convince the government to leave the abortion case legal as it is presently.
Response
I argue that illegalizing abortion is a better idea since it will help curb abortion, hence ensuring the lives of women and children are safe. Moreover, criminalizing abortion will help Planned Parenthood since they will not have much work convincing women against abortion. Defunding Planned Parenthood should be decommissioned because many citizens of America benefit from the information given.
New Sources Discovered
Goodman, Lauren Hudel. “Planned Parenthood in crisis: social media strategies and frames.” (2016).
Kurtzleben, D. Fact Check: How Does Planned Parenthood Spend That Government Money? (2015, August 5).
Salganicoff, A., Beamesderfer, A., Kurani, N., Sobel, L. Coverage for Abortion Services, and the ACA. Kaiser Family Foundation. (2014).
Working Bibliography
Aizer, Anna. “Generation Unbound: Drifting into Sex and Parenting without Marriage and Laurence Steinberg’s Age of Opportunity: Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence.” (2017): 592-608.
Harmon, Amy. “Fetal heartbeat” vs. “forced pregnancy”: the language wars of the abortion debate.” The New York Times 22 (2019).