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posted by Mr. Carlisle at 10:58 AM
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
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- Name: Mr. Carlisle
- Location: Portland, Oregon, United States
I'm a native South Carolinian and I attained my undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of South Carolina. I taught fourth grade for two years in the Mississippi Delta and two years at an alternative high school in Western North Carolina. I have been at Tigard High School since the fall of 2003, where I teach U.S. History and Psychology.
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4 Comments:
I found Greenhouses' claim that the move to relax state abortion laws came from the medical and legal professions shocking because it contradicted everything I was ever told, that women's rights groups, such as Planned Parenthood, spearheaded the movement. It makes sense that the powerful medical and legal lobbies would have a financial interest in not letting patients die because the law prevented them from having an abortion and would have the best chance of influencing the government, as opposed to the less powerful and wealthy women's rights groups. The fact that top Republicans only 40 years ago were more supportive of abortion rights than Democrats shows how much influence, perhaps, the Christian Right has had on the Republican Party.
5:01 PM
Oops, the above comment was Austin Han
5:03 PM
I don't think elimination abortion would solve the problem. We would have to make birth control more assesible and teach safe sex starting at a younger age. People who don't want there baby will go to deperate measures to get rid of it and that could lead to some serious health threatening issues.
6:47 PM
I agree with the Catholics that O'Brien described in the article, saying that a majority of them believe abortion is really a decision that is only between a woman and her doctor. This subject should not be left up to the government's jurisdiction.
I also agree with Melissa, that aborting a pregnancy (I do NOT mean after rape, incest, or a question of the mother or fetus's health) is really only treating a side effect of the real problem.
7:51 PM
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