Abortion Post

After looking at both sites I can see a lot of differences so it is really hard to compare the two. NARAL uses science and health to convince women that it safe, but they lack a truly emotional side to the abortion debate, they do have some women that talk about how it was hard for them to obtain an abortion but there is a disconnect between the site and me. On the other hand The National Right To Life site was much to based on the emotional side of things, they made a few arguments for health reasons but they were not very convincing. They spent a lot of space on using tactics to appeal to the emotional side of women, on the side of the home page they have some statistics about when the babies heart starts beating and showing how few abortions are actually for health purposes. I know that more people in America support the pro-choice side, while most of them think that people are not fighting enough for it. I can see both sides of the argument, I don't believe that late term abortions should be legal but I see nothing wrong with abortions that happen in the early months of pregnancy. But the site that I visited didn't really move me to either side more than the other, they were very obviously biased and anyone who stepped back and really looked at what they were saying would have realized that these statements need to be taken with a grain of salt.
         In my opinion, parents should always be notified of an abortion being performed on an underage girl. Not for the reason of stopping it, but for the reason of safety. While the abortion techniques have been shown to be mostly safe, there is still a chance that something bad could happen to the girl and it is better to be safe than sorry. I believe that pretty much all parents only have good in their mind for their children. And besides you can't perform any other surgeries on minors without parental consent, so why is abortion any different, it shouldn't be an exception to the law in this case.
         On the other hand I do not think that the father of the unborn child should have to notified, while it is very true that they helped in the creation of the child, they are not always in the picture and they do not have rights to interfere. It is completely ridiculous to ask this of the women, especially in cases where it is rape, incest or the woman does not actually know who the father is. Pregnancy is something that is understood by women in a more personal way, men do not always understand what it would be like and therefore cannot make an informed decision on this topic.
        I happen to think that the laws in Illinois regarding abortion are pretty relevant and correct. I wouldn't want to change them, with the exception of the spousal consent law. The spousal consent law is not necessary  and can restrict a women who is being abused at home from proper care and options. But other than that I think that Illinois has the perfect amount of laws on abortion and make it perfectly accessible to those who need it the most.

Final Death Penalty Blog

        Let me start out by stating that Illinois's banning of the death penalty was completely just. Capital Punishment is morally wrong and has too much room for error to be legal. The only problem with this is that the death penalty is constitutional, under the Constitution we should be allowed to have the death penalty. Even though we know that capital punishment is morally wrong, we cannot use the Constitution to say that it should be banned. Governor Ryan was completely right to have changed his mind, he was never exposed to the truth behind the death penalty and once he was he realized how arbitrary it is, before this time he supported it because he thought that it was completely just and had no bias. After taking time to consider that seventeen innocent men had been exonerated from death row anyone would be able to realize that the death penalty is wrong and there is too much room for error to allow it. The State Senate was able to make an emotional connection with the exonerated inmates and realized the negative effect the death penalty had on their lives and everyone close to them. As in our Death Penalty packet from Michigan State University they cite arbitrariness and discrimination as arguments against capital punishment, I would have to agree after reading Governor Ryan's speech, when he talks about how only 2% of murder cases received the death penalty it really stuck out to me. That is completely unfair to these people on trial, by the Constitution they are guaranteed a fair trial, and this is not fair. What makes some people more worthy of the death penalty than others? Once we get into this sticky subject we realize that there is no right answer, we as humans have too much bias to be morally right one hundred percent of the time. Going off of something Governor Ryan said, it does seem like life without parole is a really horrible punishment. These inmates have to rot in jail thinking about what they have done for the rest of their lives, this is worse than the peace that comes with death. These people are of no danger to us when they are locked up in solitary confinement for their entire lives. This also allows time for people to try to prove their innocence, therefore we will not condemn any more innocent lives.