Abortion

Before I even read an article on either website, my first impression is that the National Right to Life website looks like a kid made it, where the NARAL pro choice America looks way more professionally made. On the pro choice America website, they would raise a problem and then have a their own solution to each problem. For example, one problem pro choice supporters had was that pro life supporters were spreading lies to people. Saying that abortions cause breast cancer. The websites solution? Don't let them spread lies, if you hear something bad about abortion "spread the facts". Although I understand what the website wants to do, I dont think their solutions to some of these problems will help in real life. I think it all boils down to what people believe. If they believe in an abortion then they will get one, if they have a strong opinion against abortion they simply wont get one. I don't think any of these websites will make a huge difference in a decision. Especially because I dont think the pro-life website is very user friendly. I had a much easier time looking through pro-choice website. To me the pro-life website was basically just dont get an abortion its bad for you, where the pro-choice website did give some good facts.
I believe that a parent should have the right to know if their minor is having an abortion. Just like a parent has to consent on every other thing in the kids life, I do not think this should be any different. With that, I do think that having a second opinion on the matter, especially a parents, there might be different decisions made. Once the daughter is over 18, I do not think they will need any consent considering they are an adult. As far as having the father of the baby's consent, I do not think that is necessary. One reason is because if a girl is going to get an abortion without their baby's father, most likely the other parent is out of the picture. Basically if the father is around, I think he will be apart of the decision. This is a more internal issue based on the what is going on in ones specific life. This should be delt with privatley, considering each family is in a different situation.
As I was looking at the Illinois laws on abortion, the NARAL pro-choice life website stated a lot of anti choice laws and told why they were unlawful, but they did not  even give a little detail and why they could be ok. This shows a lot of bias that the website is only trying to portray one thing, and not just give out the details on abortion in Illinois.

"I Don't Wish Nobody To Have A Life Mine" response #2

Continuing this book I was not disappointed with all the different stories in each of the chapters. One chapter I was particularly intrigued with was the one about addiction. The first line in the chapter was, "the only thing Jason wasn't addicted to was school"(67). He was addicted the the jail system. It seemed like he didnt want to leave because he was addicted to the life it gave him, and the thrills he got from the fights.When Jason was talking about the state prison he said, "Its alot better then this country club. They got way better food, more rec time, stronger weed, and tougher dudes to mess with" (75). Its like hes addicted to jail. He builds a high tollerence of the one prison he is at so he wants the stronger stuff. He wants to get beat up and hurt until he over doses on that prison. He has become strong enough to hold his own in this prison and that is not enough for him. He doesnt want to be strong and getting by. He wants to feel weak and be able to build himself from the bottom of the pyramid to the top. Jail was a drug to him. The fights and problems gave him a high that he was addicted to. When he was transported to state prison he "jumped around like they were taking him to the circus or somthing"(77). He was just going to use a stronger drug and build a resistence to that. What happens when he is the king of that jungle? When there is not a stronger drug to use?

"I Dont Wish Nobody To Have A Life Like Mine" response #1

Before I even started this book I was very intrigued by the idea of it. The idea of a man working in prison simply writing about all of the experiences he has had teacher the high schools in jail. As I started this book, I was not disappointed. I found my self in the position of not being able to put the book down because most of the stories are so interesting and would obviously only be found in a prison. There has never been a time that I have read about something similar to the stories in the book. the first thing that surprised me the most was how inmates can easily break the rules in prison. One rule that was broken was on someones 21st birthday cigarettes were passed around to him for celebration. When I think of Jail I would never think that stuff would get around. Another inmate made wine from scratch and shared it with the birthday boy as his gift. One thing I did realize is that things are not taken for granted in prison. The birthday boy was most excited when someone shared oreos with him. Something that seems so simple to me and would never be the making point of my birthday, is the biggest thing to an inmate in prison. Another thing that surprised me was how opened these boys were tot ell their stories. The birthday boy, Ray, told the author all about his life, about his drug addict of a mother and his short stays with many different foster families, he even mentioned the time he was raped. This boy was was living on the street a lot of his life. He was basically set up for prison based on how he was raised. When he was living on the streets he had to commit robberies to get by. The robberies were what landed him in prison. The most amazing thing about this boy is that he knows that his life was bad and he would rather live the way he does then anyone else. To quote the title of the book, he said, "I just hope God gets a light at the end of the tunnel for people like me, I don't wish nobody to have a life like mine" (26). I'm excited to continue reading this book because of all the interesting stories in here. All of them will be unique and most likely thing I could never imagine

Death Penalty Final Response

The day we started studying the death penatly I came home from school and had a conversation with my dad about my viewpoints on the issue. I remember telling him that the main reason I believed the death penalty was unjust was because it can and has killed innocent men in the past. In my opinion there are plenty of ways to go about punishment then to kill. I believe that life in prison is just as bad. The murderer has to live in one place for the rest of his life and think about the murder they commited. If the murderer dies then never have to think about what they did because, its simple; theyll be dead. It doesnt matter if one innocent man is dead, innocence is innocence, that person did not commit the crime. In Govener Ryans speech, he noted Northwestern University. He noted that they found proof that a man was innocent on death row. This man would have died if it wasnt for the efort put in my those law students. Not everyone man on death row is provided with an effort like that. If they were and ther was 100% proof that a man was guilty, it may be a little different, but for the most part, no everyone on death row has he resources to put so much effort into every case. Another thing we learned was the concept of retribution which I do not agree with. In the rebuttal to retribution it says, "We do not allow torturing the torturer or raping the rapist." This is something i aree with, the conceptof revenge is not the same as the concept of justice. Justice is what the victims family are seeking and killing another person is not gonna achieve justice just revenge. Its kind of like what we are talking about in English class as we are finishing reading Hamlet. The biggest thing question that came up is, "is the revenge worth the feeling of justice?" Will getting revenge on somebody by putting them to death really make a victims family feel that much better? In Govener Ryans speech he quoted Govener Brown, "Beyond its honor and incredibility, it has neither protected the innocent nor deterred the killers. Publicly sanctioned killing has cheapened human life and dignity without the redeeming grace which comes from justice metered out swiftly, evenly, humanely." To me the biggest part about this is that the death penalty doesnt make murderers stop and it doesnt stop the innocent from being killed. Illinois was commpletely just in taking away the death penatly and I hope it stays this way forever.

Response: Deadline

Race plays a huge role in capital cases. States and the law will claim that they are not racist, but in reality if there was some evidence against a black man, they will try their hardest to prove the black man guilty then if there were evidence against a white man. It seemed like most of the men who were later proven innocent after being sent to prison were black man. Especially in the walk for the wrongfully accused. In that walk most of the men we saw in the movie were black men. I believe that whether people want to admit it or not, there are still discriminations against race that should not be there. Black people are always being accused or questioned and it seems as though they are always the first person to be accused. This is a problem because it lets white people commit and get away with crimes. Lawyers and detectives seem to spend way too much time trying to convict an innocent black man then a guilty white man. Im not saying that all black man are innocent, some of them do commit crimes, just like some white people commit crimes also. All I am saying is that if black and white people were treated fairly, I believe that less innocent people would be in jail or be on death row. Based on the quote, “Growing up black in this state, you know, you really didn’t have a chance when it came to a crime. You know, they say that justice is blind, but justice really isn’t blind,” from the movie Deadline, it seems as though black men have to watch there back all the time. They have to make sure they arent wrongfully accused just because they are in the wrong place at the wrong time. Where a white man can just leave that situation and not have any problem. When blacks came to America they came as slaves. When white people came to America they came to get away from the troubles in the pther countries and to start a new life in America. Black people came as slaves and for the most part, they have yet to shake off that segragation and discrimination. Thats why they are inclined to be suspects of crimes because whites think they do everything wrong, and that all started from how they came to America.

I believe the death penalty is widely supported in this country because most people believe in, "an eye for an eye". The media always portrays the guilty as the worst possible person and it makes people believe that person should be sent to death. People also believe that everyone deserves revenge. If someone commited a crime they should get it right back. But does that really fix the problem? Or would that kill more people? Maybe it sounds good but is the answer just to kill more people, would that prevent more deaths. wouldnt it be more effective to let that person suffer in jail for the rest of their lives?