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  How Society Treats The Poor

  It is such a shame that our nation has an abundance of wealth but the people and the government turn away from the poor. In my home town there is a shelter that offers food and a place to stay. Recently the added an addition that allows families to have their own rooms. I live in a relatively well off suburb of Chicago, and I always forget that this is not the case for most homeless people. While my community provides for the homeless, I do not know how much my community does to help the poor. There should be a certain amount of preventative measures in place to keep people from becoming homeless. When visiting the shelter I would hear people say that they were "living paycheck to paycheck" and it was just one slip up that landed them at the shelter. It could really happen to anyone and that is why I think it is important to look out for not only the homeless, but the poor. If we could educate them and help them find jobs we could keep a roof over their heads and food in their stomachs, and there would be no need for shelters. I know this would take a great deal of work, but in a perfect world society would be more concerned with the situation of the poor.

  Posted 30 Oct 09 in CST

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  Things Happen For a Reason

  I agree with Christina.  I do not believe rape victims have the power to take the life of their own child, just as my mother does not have the right to kill me in my sleep.  I can understand that a rape victim has plenty of reason to terminate the pregnancy, but I firmly believe that it is nobody's job to take the matter of life and death in their own hands.  It is true that rape victims carry emotional baggage with them, but it is possible that the child could bring joy to the mother's life.  Perhaps giving birth would allow her to make something positive out of an unfortunate situation.

  Some people might argue that aborting a pregnancy that is a result of rape is "theraputic" because it is looking out for the mother's mental health.  I do not accept this as a valid reason for having an abortion.  A life should not be lost in order to improve the life of another.

  Posted 15 Sep 09 in CST

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  Teenagers on Birth Control

  In class we discussed certain circumstances in which using artificial contraception is considered acceptable in the eyes of the Church.  The Church believes birth control is "less wrong" if the primary reason for contraception is medicinal.  I know a handful of girls that have gone on the pill for medical reasons, but I also noticed that soon after they started taking birth control they became sexually active.  I wonder if there is a statistic that relates taking the pill and the likelihood of teenagers to engage in sexual activity.  I spent some time looking for birth control statistics, but I didn't find anything specifically relating the pill to the likelihood of a girl becoming sexually active. On one site I did find out that "nearly all sexually active females (98% in 2002) have used at least one method of birth control. The most common methods used are the condom (used at least once by 94%) and the pill (used at least once by 61%)."  This only proves that the majority of sexually active teens are using birth control, but it does not talk about how many teens on birth control are having sex.

  Posted 08 Sep 09 in CST