Responce to Allison Frueh's "Blog Stage 7: Abortion"

I completely agree with what is said in this commentary about abortion. It is not up to anyone but the woman carrying the fetus weather or not to keep the baby or not. If she feels as if she cannot do it and wants an abortion, then no one should try to stop her or judge her in any way. Just because you wouldn’t do it doesn’t mean that you can scold someone else for doing it. It’s their decision and nobody else’s. Since when did the fetus have more rights than the woman carrying it? I don’t believe that someone should say that the fetus has more control over the situation than the woman does. It is her body and she can do whatever she thinks is best for it.

Gay Marriage

Gay marriage has been quite the controversy in our country lately and I believe that it shouldn’t be such a big deal. I believe that people are people and they can love whoever they want to love. You can’t help who you fall in love with and the government shouldn’t tell them who they can and cannot marry. If that’s what your choice is, then so be it. Who are we to judge and tell them no?

Responce to Juliana Solitro's Issues on Contraception

I agree that contraceptives should be provided for any woman who may need them; however I’m not sure they should be provided for free. It takes money to make them so shouldn’t it cost at least a little bit of money? I believe that they should be very inexpensive so that everyone can afford them if they are needed. We should want them to be there for people who need them in rare circumstances but we don’t want people to take advantage of them. We don’t want people to be careless and just think that there is an out if something happens. The government should encourage people to still be careful but if there is an accident then there are ways to get help. Contraceptives should always be there for however needs them and they should be provided at a low price.

Why Cut the Space Program?

The space program was a huge part of the United States and over the years so much time and money was dedicated to it that it seems incredibly stupid to just cut it. Ending the space program after all of the efforts by so many people just makes all of the hard work and money go to waste. NASA had just built a new rocket and was ready to go on another mission to the moon which makes this decision an even bigger mistake. To me it just seems like it shouldn’t have been done because instead of saving money by cutting the program, it wasted billions of dollars by destroying the newly built rocket. Hopefully the funding will be back to the space program soon.

National Nurse's Week

David Huffstutler is the CEO and president of St. David’s Healthcare and employees over two thousand nurses in central Texas. He wrote an article published in the Austin American Statesman in honor of national nurse’s week to let the public know how important nurses are to our healthcare program. Huffstutler begins by saying that nursing has been voted one of the most trusted professions for the last thirteen years. He then talks about National Nurses Week and how each May it is celebrated to recognize the Nurses in our nation as well as the birthday of the founder of nursing, Florence Nightingale. Huffstutler finishes his argument by saying that St. David’s would like to show their appreciation towards nurses and all they do to make our healthcare system better.

            I agree with Huffstutler in this article because without nurses our healthcare would not be very good at all. Nurses play a vital role in our treatment and work extremely hard to take care of each patient to the best of their abilities. Patients usually see their nurse more than their doctor which proves how important and hard working they are. Huffstutler had a good argument; he backs up his opinion with polls from “Gallup’s annual poll of the most trustworthy professions.” He is also a very credible source because he is the CEO of a hospital company that employees thousands of nurses in our area. His article works well to inform the public of how important nurses are to our healthcare program.