World Aids Day
World AIDS day is fast approaching and it is a day of memory and reflection for those who have been lost in the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Here is an interesting video about the effects of HIV/AIDS.
Friday, November 10, 2006
Saturday, October 28, 2006
The First AAC Production
A while back in the month of August there was a little skit done called "Civility in the Classroom". It was Art as an Agent for Change's first production involving a live performance with the A.A.C. name. Thanks for helping guys.
Cast of "Civility in the Classroom"
In the picture in no particular order (Karla White, Bobby Jones, Joshelin Kantor, Roderick Sylvester, Odinaka Ezeokoli, Bianca Longmire, Rachel Adams, Elizabeth Harvery)
A while back in the month of August there was a little skit done called "Civility in the Classroom". It was Art as an Agent for Change's first production involving a live performance with the A.A.C. name. Thanks for helping guys.
Cast of "Civility in the Classroom"
In the picture in no particular order (Karla White, Bobby Jones, Joshelin Kantor, Roderick Sylvester, Odinaka Ezeokoli, Bianca Longmire, Rachel Adams, Elizabeth Harvery)
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Saturday, August 26, 2006
Our First Fund-Raiser
On the nice warm night of August 24, 2oo6 the AAC had its first fund-raiser. The night was filled with dancing, laughs, and lots of fun. Our first Shut will occur next month and it was exciting to get the ball rolling for Art as an Agent for Change. Thanks to all of those who attended the party.
In the photo: (Roderick Sylvester snaps a photo during the party)
Thursday, August 03, 2006
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Thursday, July 20, 2006
My new post, My New Post, My New Post
1. Since I haven't done this in a While, let me apologize
2. Next, one of the things I think, believe, and hold dear, is the fact that we have to prepare our own futures in the best way we can. I know that most of you who read this maybe in college and others may not, but with this post, I just want to infuse some with the knowledge to stop waiting and seize something,now! Whether it's a business, some piece of knowledge, just know, your future is what you make it and graduation may be to late to start working on that dream.
Carpe everything you can!
3. Here is a video with a little spoken word and a good message.
4. A.A.C does spoken word, I've got to get us, "all up and through here"
5. Shut It Down!
This is from the Stanford Spoken Word Collective.
1. Since I haven't done this in a While, let me apologize
2. Next, one of the things I think, believe, and hold dear, is the fact that we have to prepare our own futures in the best way we can. I know that most of you who read this maybe in college and others may not, but with this post, I just want to infuse some with the knowledge to stop waiting and seize something,now! Whether it's a business, some piece of knowledge, just know, your future is what you make it and graduation may be to late to start working on that dream.
Carpe everything you can!
3. Here is a video with a little spoken word and a good message.
4. A.A.C does spoken word, I've got to get us, "all up and through here"
5. Shut It Down!
This is from the Stanford Spoken Word Collective.
Thursday, July 06, 2006
AIDS
I came across an article a few days ago detailing a new drug approved by the FDA. It is a retroviral drug and it is meant to benefit those with little money and cannot afford the more exspensive drugs on the market. This is a pleasing update in the ongoing fight against HIV and AIDS. Let's continue this fight until we have a cure or we eradicate this epidemic from this earth.
New AIDS Pill to Treat People in Poor Countries
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Published: July 6, 2006
The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first 3-in-1 antiretroviral pill for use by the American-sponsored plan for AIDS treatment, something that the White House's acting global AIDS coordinator said yesterday should greatly improve treatment for AIDS patients in poor countries.
Although it is not yet clear how much money it will save, having patients take only one pill twice a day "should facilitate better therapies and better adherence," said the coordinator, Dr. Mark R. Dybul.
The agency posted the approval of the drug on its Web site on Friday evening. It approved the 3-in-1 pill, made by an Indian generic drug company, for patients in countries helped by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
Under that plan, the United States is now the largest provider of antiretroviral drugs in the world, paying for treatment for 561,000 patients in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.
The Global Fund for AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis, the second-largest provider, pays for about 541,000 patients, Dr. Dybul said, although there is some overlap in countries where both agencies work. (The United States also pays one-third of the Global Fund's budget.)
The new pill, made by Aurobindo Pharma of Hyderabad, India, combines three common first-line drugs, AZT, 3TC and NVP, which are also known as zidovudine, lamivudine and nevirapine and sold in the United States as Retrovir, Epivir and Viramune.
Dr. Dybul said he was also pleased that the new pill did not contain D4T, also known as stavudine and Zerit, which is another common first-line drug, but somewhat more toxic than the others.
In poor countries, where it is harder to do frequent blood and liver tests, toxicity can be harder to control.
The plan Dr. Dybul runs, known as Pepfar, was created after President Bush's announcement in his 2003 State of the Union address that he would spend $15 billion over five years to fight AIDS.
At the time, many Bush administration critics feared the money would be reserved for expensive American and European brand-name drugs. But, defying those expectations, the program in May 2004 began buying generics and now pays for 24 generic formulations, including liquid solutions for infants. Also, the major Western companies dropped their prices for poor countries, sometimes as low as the prices of generics.
However, rather than subscribing to the World Health Organization's drug-approval process, the president's program requires separate F.D.A. approval, which has caused delays, even though the agency created a fast-track process and waived its large fees.
No one from Aurobindo could be reached for comment yesterday, but the company's Web site carried an announcement, dated Monday, saying it was "delighted to share" that its drug had won F.D.A. approval.
The first 3-in-1 antiretroviral pill was triomune, from Cipla, another Indian generic company. It won World Health Organization approval in 2002 and is used by nearly 400,000 patients whose drugs are bought by Unicef, Doctors Without Borders and other donors.
Dr. Yusuf K. Hamied, the company's chairman, said yesterday that he hoped for F.D.A. approval shortly for several Cipla products, including triomune. "Pepfar came on us out of the blue," he said. "We were concentrating more on the W.H.O., and we were a little slow catching up." Nonetheless, he praised his rival Aurobindo, calling it "a totally kosher company," and adding, "As an Indian, I'm proud of them."
I came across an article a few days ago detailing a new drug approved by the FDA. It is a retroviral drug and it is meant to benefit those with little money and cannot afford the more exspensive drugs on the market. This is a pleasing update in the ongoing fight against HIV and AIDS. Let's continue this fight until we have a cure or we eradicate this epidemic from this earth.
New AIDS Pill to Treat People in Poor Countries
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Published: July 6, 2006
The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first 3-in-1 antiretroviral pill for use by the American-sponsored plan for AIDS treatment, something that the White House's acting global AIDS coordinator said yesterday should greatly improve treatment for AIDS patients in poor countries.
Although it is not yet clear how much money it will save, having patients take only one pill twice a day "should facilitate better therapies and better adherence," said the coordinator, Dr. Mark R. Dybul.
The agency posted the approval of the drug on its Web site on Friday evening. It approved the 3-in-1 pill, made by an Indian generic drug company, for patients in countries helped by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
Under that plan, the United States is now the largest provider of antiretroviral drugs in the world, paying for treatment for 561,000 patients in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.
The Global Fund for AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis, the second-largest provider, pays for about 541,000 patients, Dr. Dybul said, although there is some overlap in countries where both agencies work. (The United States also pays one-third of the Global Fund's budget.)
The new pill, made by Aurobindo Pharma of Hyderabad, India, combines three common first-line drugs, AZT, 3TC and NVP, which are also known as zidovudine, lamivudine and nevirapine and sold in the United States as Retrovir, Epivir and Viramune.
Dr. Dybul said he was also pleased that the new pill did not contain D4T, also known as stavudine and Zerit, which is another common first-line drug, but somewhat more toxic than the others.
In poor countries, where it is harder to do frequent blood and liver tests, toxicity can be harder to control.
The plan Dr. Dybul runs, known as Pepfar, was created after President Bush's announcement in his 2003 State of the Union address that he would spend $15 billion over five years to fight AIDS.
At the time, many Bush administration critics feared the money would be reserved for expensive American and European brand-name drugs. But, defying those expectations, the program in May 2004 began buying generics and now pays for 24 generic formulations, including liquid solutions for infants. Also, the major Western companies dropped their prices for poor countries, sometimes as low as the prices of generics.
However, rather than subscribing to the World Health Organization's drug-approval process, the president's program requires separate F.D.A. approval, which has caused delays, even though the agency created a fast-track process and waived its large fees.
No one from Aurobindo could be reached for comment yesterday, but the company's Web site carried an announcement, dated Monday, saying it was "delighted to share" that its drug had won F.D.A. approval.
The first 3-in-1 antiretroviral pill was triomune, from Cipla, another Indian generic company. It won World Health Organization approval in 2002 and is used by nearly 400,000 patients whose drugs are bought by Unicef, Doctors Without Borders and other donors.
Dr. Yusuf K. Hamied, the company's chairman, said yesterday that he hoped for F.D.A. approval shortly for several Cipla products, including triomune. "Pepfar came on us out of the blue," he said. "We were concentrating more on the W.H.O., and we were a little slow catching up." Nonetheless, he praised his rival Aurobindo, calling it "a totally kosher company," and adding, "As an Indian, I'm proud of them."
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Tiananmen Square II
Ever wonder how to kill people and get away with it. Most people investigate when shots are fired and blood is spilled, but it seems China doesn't. This was an article featured on NYtimes.com and is about the cover up of an event that involved a little death and a little cover up.
China Covers Up Violent Suppression of Village Protest
By HOWARD W. FRENCH
Published: June 27, 2006
SHANWEI, China, June 20 — When the police raked a crowd of demonstrators with gunfire last December in the seaside village of Dongzhou, a few miles from this city, Chinese human rights advocates denounced the action as the bloodiest in the country since the killings at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, in 1989.
Villagers said at the time that as many as 30 people had been killed, and that many others were missing. The authorities have said little or nothing about the episode, concentrating instead on preventing any accounts of it from circulating widely in the country. In the limited coverage that was allowed, officials blamed the unrest on the villagers.
Six months later, there has been no public investigation of the shootings. Instead, the government has quietly moved to close the matter, prosecuting 19 villagers earlier this month in a little-publicized trial. Seven were given long sentences after being convicted of disturbing the public order and of using explosives to attack the police. Nowhere in the verdict is there any mention of the loss of life.
Outside court, villagers say, the authorities have privately acknowledged the death of three residents during the protest. Many say they suspect that more were killed, citing a witness account of a pile of bodies, and details about people who remain missing, but they say they have been warned not to cite a higher figure.
Indeed, residents of the village, in Guangdong Province near Hong Kong, say they have been warned not to talk to outsiders at all. Given the fact that journalists, lawyers, human rights workers and other independent observers have been kept away from Dongzhou, a definitive death toll may never be established.
Whatever the lingering uncertainty, the handling of the protest and its aftermath stand out as a prominent example of how China deals with localized unrest, which has been rising in the countryside.
The protest erupted over plans for a wind-power plant that used village lands and required significant landfill in a bay where the people have for generations made a living fishing. Before that, nearby village land had been used for the construction of a coal-fired power plant.
But that is not the story that Beijing, which has a long tradition of establishing official histories, wants the world to hear. Dongzhou, it seems, has been consigned to the annals of forgettable minor incidents rather than the milestone it undoubtedly is in the wave of unrest over land issues that has swept the Chinese countryside.
Even six months after the deaths, pressure to deny the truth of the matter remains intense. In dozens of telephone conversations and in interviews with the handful of villagers who were willing to slip away from home and risk speaking with a foreign reporter here, residents of Dongzhou say their telephones are tapped and entry and exit from their village tightly controlled. One phrase, "We are scared to death," was repeated over and over.
"My phone is tapped, and our conversation is being monitored," one man said hastily before hanging up. "The police may arrive even while we're still talking. I can say I don't think the villagers are guilty at all. What we did is try to regain our lawful rights over the land."
Villagers said relatives of those who had been tried were monitored especially closely. The police promptly pay visits to those who make phone calls outside the village, warning them of trouble if they speak about the December shootings. A $200 reward has been offered to informers, many said. Travel permits to Hong Kong — where many here have relatives and where there is a free press — have been barred for the entire village.
Despite their fears, and whether or not their relatives were accused of a crime, many villagers talked. They described the recent two-and-a-half-day trial as a farce that offered no real opportunity for most to defend themselves.
All but one villager were too poor to hire their own counsel, and lawyers provided by the state asked few questions, called no witnesses and presented no evidence on behalf of the accused. Sometimes, villagers said, the lawyers urged the defendants to admit their "guilt."
One man, refusing to admit guilt, said that an oral confession cited by the judge had been beaten out of him in detention, but that he had refused to sign it, according to a villager who attended the trial. The court ignored his protest.
"Even a child can understand this trial was unfair" said one woman, who would not give her name for fear of reprisals. "We don't think they are guilty, because everyone knows what happened on Dec. 6. There were killings when the government opened fire. I'm afraid I can't say anything more to you, because every telephone in Dongzhou is tapped."
The authorities have made equally strenuous efforts to keep outsiders from offering help to the villagers.
In the last few years, China has seen the emergence of public-spirited lawyers who seek out civil rights cases in the countryside and volunteer their services to peasants in disputes over land or other matters.
In a growing number of such cases, including Dongzhou, the government has threatened the lawyers with hardball tactics, including the threat of suspending their law licenses, arrests and the implicit threat of violence.
"Local governments are very determined to prevent the involvement of outside lawyers, especially those from Beijing, because if they can control the local lawyers, keep them under their will, the trial will remain completely under their control," said one civil rights lawyer from Beijing, who was turned away from Dongzhou in December.
"The authorities publicly told the villagers they could hear all of their conversations and warned if you talk to outsiders you will be arrested," the lawyer said. "It was an open threat. The villagers were really scared, and the authorities controlled the entrance from the expressways and beat people who tried to enter."
While the convicted villagers have the right to appeal, most said they saw little point and spoke of being exhausted and demoralized. Villagers said that work on the wind plant resumed the day after the protest and was racing toward completion.
"This village has been pacified as if nothing ever happened here," said one man. "The government hasn't given us a single cent for the land it took, let alone for the sea they filled in and the mountains they blasted for rocks. We dare not ask for more, because they've made it clear: if you oppose the government, they'll show their true colors."
Ever wonder how to kill people and get away with it. Most people investigate when shots are fired and blood is spilled, but it seems China doesn't. This was an article featured on NYtimes.com and is about the cover up of an event that involved a little death and a little cover up.
China Covers Up Violent Suppression of Village Protest
By HOWARD W. FRENCH
Published: June 27, 2006
SHANWEI, China, June 20 — When the police raked a crowd of demonstrators with gunfire last December in the seaside village of Dongzhou, a few miles from this city, Chinese human rights advocates denounced the action as the bloodiest in the country since the killings at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, in 1989.
Villagers said at the time that as many as 30 people had been killed, and that many others were missing. The authorities have said little or nothing about the episode, concentrating instead on preventing any accounts of it from circulating widely in the country. In the limited coverage that was allowed, officials blamed the unrest on the villagers.
Six months later, there has been no public investigation of the shootings. Instead, the government has quietly moved to close the matter, prosecuting 19 villagers earlier this month in a little-publicized trial. Seven were given long sentences after being convicted of disturbing the public order and of using explosives to attack the police. Nowhere in the verdict is there any mention of the loss of life.
Outside court, villagers say, the authorities have privately acknowledged the death of three residents during the protest. Many say they suspect that more were killed, citing a witness account of a pile of bodies, and details about people who remain missing, but they say they have been warned not to cite a higher figure.
Indeed, residents of the village, in Guangdong Province near Hong Kong, say they have been warned not to talk to outsiders at all. Given the fact that journalists, lawyers, human rights workers and other independent observers have been kept away from Dongzhou, a definitive death toll may never be established.
Whatever the lingering uncertainty, the handling of the protest and its aftermath stand out as a prominent example of how China deals with localized unrest, which has been rising in the countryside.
The protest erupted over plans for a wind-power plant that used village lands and required significant landfill in a bay where the people have for generations made a living fishing. Before that, nearby village land had been used for the construction of a coal-fired power plant.
But that is not the story that Beijing, which has a long tradition of establishing official histories, wants the world to hear. Dongzhou, it seems, has been consigned to the annals of forgettable minor incidents rather than the milestone it undoubtedly is in the wave of unrest over land issues that has swept the Chinese countryside.
Even six months after the deaths, pressure to deny the truth of the matter remains intense. In dozens of telephone conversations and in interviews with the handful of villagers who were willing to slip away from home and risk speaking with a foreign reporter here, residents of Dongzhou say their telephones are tapped and entry and exit from their village tightly controlled. One phrase, "We are scared to death," was repeated over and over.
"My phone is tapped, and our conversation is being monitored," one man said hastily before hanging up. "The police may arrive even while we're still talking. I can say I don't think the villagers are guilty at all. What we did is try to regain our lawful rights over the land."
Villagers said relatives of those who had been tried were monitored especially closely. The police promptly pay visits to those who make phone calls outside the village, warning them of trouble if they speak about the December shootings. A $200 reward has been offered to informers, many said. Travel permits to Hong Kong — where many here have relatives and where there is a free press — have been barred for the entire village.
Despite their fears, and whether or not their relatives were accused of a crime, many villagers talked. They described the recent two-and-a-half-day trial as a farce that offered no real opportunity for most to defend themselves.
All but one villager were too poor to hire their own counsel, and lawyers provided by the state asked few questions, called no witnesses and presented no evidence on behalf of the accused. Sometimes, villagers said, the lawyers urged the defendants to admit their "guilt."
One man, refusing to admit guilt, said that an oral confession cited by the judge had been beaten out of him in detention, but that he had refused to sign it, according to a villager who attended the trial. The court ignored his protest.
"Even a child can understand this trial was unfair" said one woman, who would not give her name for fear of reprisals. "We don't think they are guilty, because everyone knows what happened on Dec. 6. There were killings when the government opened fire. I'm afraid I can't say anything more to you, because every telephone in Dongzhou is tapped."
The authorities have made equally strenuous efforts to keep outsiders from offering help to the villagers.
In the last few years, China has seen the emergence of public-spirited lawyers who seek out civil rights cases in the countryside and volunteer their services to peasants in disputes over land or other matters.
In a growing number of such cases, including Dongzhou, the government has threatened the lawyers with hardball tactics, including the threat of suspending their law licenses, arrests and the implicit threat of violence.
"Local governments are very determined to prevent the involvement of outside lawyers, especially those from Beijing, because if they can control the local lawyers, keep them under their will, the trial will remain completely under their control," said one civil rights lawyer from Beijing, who was turned away from Dongzhou in December.
"The authorities publicly told the villagers they could hear all of their conversations and warned if you talk to outsiders you will be arrested," the lawyer said. "It was an open threat. The villagers were really scared, and the authorities controlled the entrance from the expressways and beat people who tried to enter."
While the convicted villagers have the right to appeal, most said they saw little point and spoke of being exhausted and demoralized. Villagers said that work on the wind plant resumed the day after the protest and was racing toward completion.
"This village has been pacified as if nothing ever happened here," said one man. "The government hasn't given us a single cent for the land it took, let alone for the sea they filled in and the mountains they blasted for rocks. We dare not ask for more, because they've made it clear: if you oppose the government, they'll show their true colors."
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
This is an effort by Eric Mata to tell everyone who he is, and who are you? What we are standing on and who has fallen so we can stand up now. This is for the plight of the oppressed and the fight we must keep fighting Feel the people on this piece as Eric Mata shuts it down!!!!! I appreciate him writing this...
( This video was played at the American Multicultural Student Leadership Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to set the tone for the event. We got Eric Mata to write a spoken word piece and a handful of student leaders on campus to bring it to life)
( This video was played at the American Multicultural Student Leadership Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to set the tone for the event. We got Eric Mata to write a spoken word piece and a handful of student leaders on campus to bring it to life)
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Calling All Minorities
Recently I was involved in a conversation about minority students and diversity at Georgia College and State University. A lot of people think we need more minority students on this campus. But how do we get minority students to attend Georgia College and State Univeristy, I say, get well-known black professors, they will bring students who will want to learn from them. Imagine if Nikki Giovanni came here to teach Creative Writing, I bet a few black students would come just to learn how to write some poems. Also race relations are the wave of the future, why not have, and I'm borrowing this idea, a Race Relations Major, as corporations realize the profitable benefits of diversifying their employee base, I'm sure they would like to know how to best get along with and thrive with their new employees. Also good race relations may end the bias associated with job oppurtunites because good race realtions in a workplace could help engage bias prejudice attitudes and erase years of prejudice programming, this is all a bunch of "ifs". But back to Georgia College, we need things here to make African Americans, Latin Americans, Asian Americans, and all the Americans that contribute to diversity at this institution. How do we get them here, give them the things they need for an education, appealing faculty, prior experiences here on campus, and scholarships, we only have one thank you Mary Peyton and Cook. Georgia College is currently taking steps in the right direction, there is minority engagement currently engaging and there was a gift of $700,000 for scholarships and recruitment of Latin American students, thanks Goizueta. It will be interesting to see this school in a 5 or ten years, It'll be after I have long graduated, let us hope that a change is on the horizon. And last but not least, just to call even more attention to the need, I couldn't even find stock pictures from GC&SU with all the minorities I just mentioned, had to go to Texas Tech to find a photo.
Recently I was involved in a conversation about minority students and diversity at Georgia College and State University. A lot of people think we need more minority students on this campus. But how do we get minority students to attend Georgia College and State Univeristy, I say, get well-known black professors, they will bring students who will want to learn from them. Imagine if Nikki Giovanni came here to teach Creative Writing, I bet a few black students would come just to learn how to write some poems. Also race relations are the wave of the future, why not have, and I'm borrowing this idea, a Race Relations Major, as corporations realize the profitable benefits of diversifying their employee base, I'm sure they would like to know how to best get along with and thrive with their new employees. Also good race relations may end the bias associated with job oppurtunites because good race realtions in a workplace could help engage bias prejudice attitudes and erase years of prejudice programming, this is all a bunch of "ifs". But back to Georgia College, we need things here to make African Americans, Latin Americans, Asian Americans, and all the Americans that contribute to diversity at this institution. How do we get them here, give them the things they need for an education, appealing faculty, prior experiences here on campus, and scholarships, we only have one thank you Mary Peyton and Cook. Georgia College is currently taking steps in the right direction, there is minority engagement currently engaging and there was a gift of $700,000 for scholarships and recruitment of Latin American students, thanks Goizueta. It will be interesting to see this school in a 5 or ten years, It'll be after I have long graduated, let us hope that a change is on the horizon. And last but not least, just to call even more attention to the need, I couldn't even find stock pictures from GC&SU with all the minorities I just mentioned, had to go to Texas Tech to find a photo.
Saturday, June 10, 2006
Tupac Shakur Speaks
This is ancient history to most of you, and 1992, is what, 14 years in our past, but for most people my age and for those of us living in the age of hip-hop, let's take it back to 1992 to an age where hip-hop wasn't as popular as it is now, and amid the hip-hop artists there were some that recognized that we as black people must stand up for something beyond money and it is our responsibility to teach and guide ourselves to a better place in this world. This is Tupac Shakur speaking at a conference in Atlanta in the long ago time of 1992. WARNING!!! There is Explicit Language.
This is ancient history to most of you, and 1992, is what, 14 years in our past, but for most people my age and for those of us living in the age of hip-hop, let's take it back to 1992 to an age where hip-hop wasn't as popular as it is now, and amid the hip-hop artists there were some that recognized that we as black people must stand up for something beyond money and it is our responsibility to teach and guide ourselves to a better place in this world. This is Tupac Shakur speaking at a conference in Atlanta in the long ago time of 1992. WARNING!!! There is Explicit Language.
Friday, June 09, 2006
Teen Pregnancy
I know most of us know that teen pregnancy has been a problem for many years, and girls younger and younger are getting pregnant everyday. Sex among teenagers is here and it doesn't look like it's going anywhere as everyday more and more kids make adult decisions. A dilemma I was confronted with not long ago was centered around a young girl who is pregnant and doesn't want to tell her parents because they will certainly throw her out of her home if they find out she is pregnant. She has currently gathered enough money for an abortion and the only barrier to her getting the abortion currently is the distance to the clinic where the procedure will take place. Now as both sides of the argument line-up and we begin the Abortion is wrong and the Women's right to choose arguments. Let's first put ourselves in this young child's shoes. If I tell my parents they will kick me out of the house. If I abort this baby, I can continue my life, not get kicked out of my house, go to college, but I will forever remember the child I could have had, and instead killed. I could have this child and give it up for adoption, and after I endured all nine of the months, I'm supposed to give up my baby? How could I, and why are so many foster kids I've met so screwed up after growing up in and out of different homes. Finally if I keep my child, how will I afford it? Can I afford it? And I wonder if my baby's father will even help me...
The problem for me is not that this child is having a child and that she had sex before she was married, for me the problem lies with her inability to tell her parents and have their support rather than disapproval and disownership. I believe this child needs help and support rather than ridicule, how do you feel about the situation, let me know, post a comment.
I know most of us know that teen pregnancy has been a problem for many years, and girls younger and younger are getting pregnant everyday. Sex among teenagers is here and it doesn't look like it's going anywhere as everyday more and more kids make adult decisions. A dilemma I was confronted with not long ago was centered around a young girl who is pregnant and doesn't want to tell her parents because they will certainly throw her out of her home if they find out she is pregnant. She has currently gathered enough money for an abortion and the only barrier to her getting the abortion currently is the distance to the clinic where the procedure will take place. Now as both sides of the argument line-up and we begin the Abortion is wrong and the Women's right to choose arguments. Let's first put ourselves in this young child's shoes. If I tell my parents they will kick me out of the house. If I abort this baby, I can continue my life, not get kicked out of my house, go to college, but I will forever remember the child I could have had, and instead killed. I could have this child and give it up for adoption, and after I endured all nine of the months, I'm supposed to give up my baby? How could I, and why are so many foster kids I've met so screwed up after growing up in and out of different homes. Finally if I keep my child, how will I afford it? Can I afford it? And I wonder if my baby's father will even help me...
The problem for me is not that this child is having a child and that she had sex before she was married, for me the problem lies with her inability to tell her parents and have their support rather than disapproval and disownership. I believe this child needs help and support rather than ridicule, how do you feel about the situation, let me know, post a comment.
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