Free Birth Control: Could It Transform Society?

I recently came across an article on Newsweek called Free Birth Control: Could It Transform Society? Published October 19, 2012; if you have any interest in reading this article you can find it on the posted link below http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/19/free-birth-control-could-it-transform-society.html

The article is about a recent study that has showed that when contraception was free of charge that the abortion rates went way down. But many people argue that free birth control could have a much wider effect on society. How could free birth control have a profound effect on society? Researchers have discovered that the effect of stress from a woman can reverberate for many years, into another generation, and throughout society. The group of researchers said that human beings have a “social brain”. Which basically helps us to distinguish a friend from enemy or to protect our territory. This also drives us to have sex, fall in love, and to do business. Sometimes the social brain doesn’t work as good and that creates mental disorders that affect the social brain. I think what the writer wants us to understand about this article is that free birth control can lower abortion rates but there are intense effects to it as well. The information that I read from this article gave me some useful information about abortions but didn’t exactly answer my curiosity question. The article was interesting and I thought that the free birth control was a good idea, because it was effective because it helped decrease the numbers of abortions.

Lawsuit Tries to Block New Arizona Abortion Law

This week I came upon a very interesting article that I found on the New York Times called “Lawsuit Tries to Block New Arizona Abortion Law” published on July 20, 2012. If you want to read this article it can be found on the link posted below.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F00E2D9163FF930A25754C0A9649D8B63&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

This article is about a group of women’s rights supporters and doctors who face up to Arizona’s new abortion limits in a federal lawsuit. They claimed that they violated the constitution and pose a threat to women’s health. The article also mentioned that the new Arizona law allows medical exceptions only in extreme emergencies, such as where the delay can cause the mother’s death or irreversible injury of a major bodily function. What the writer wants us to understand in this article is that the Arizona law will support women to have abortions only in emergency cases where it can cause death to the mother. And a woman has to be in a dreadful emergency to have an abortion. The information that I read from this piece helped support my question on abortions. It answered some of my questions; it gave me another reason why women have abortions. What I acquired from this article is that some women get abortions to save their lives in emergency situations during labor. I received some good facts from this passage and has fueled me with more questions on this issue. The article was interesting to me; I know the law was written to protect the health and safety of women in addition to protect the pre-born children from pain and death. Many people are for it and there are many that are completely against it, in the end it’s the women’s choice. I know that abortion is still wrong but I don’t really have an opinion on this issue because I’m not a woman.