48!

Danger on the Ballot: How the "Human Life Amendment" Threatens the Well being of Women, Children, and Families.
This topic was really intense for me to listen to, I did not realize the effect that 48 would have on the laws and how it played out in our culture. While doing the readings I was really appalled to what happened to these women in other states. The one that will stick with me the most is the story of the disabled woman who had a re-occurrence of her cancer and she was pregnant. I started to cry when I was reading how the laws in Southern Carolina didn’t protect her or her child’s life. To me it really addressed how the system doesn’t seem to work for the few that are at the bottom or in the margins, but works really well for the ones that are at the top and have power. It seems like the ideals of the conservative right tend to have a lot of money and this is how these laws are presented on the ballot and to me that’s unfair.
Laws and amendments like 48 really appear to be creating targets on the people that the majority of society sees as unfit and uses a loop hole to try and remove them from the society. These laws really would affect poor women of color who are in situations that are not necessarily their own doing, also with the passing of this law it will give a lot more power to doctors who tend to be white and male. This power dynamic is quite unacceptable in my eyes and I really hope that this amendment does not pass. My question is how do these amendments get on to the ballot, I feel like this issues is a civil rights issue, and that Roe v. Wade already settled the score on abortion? It is really hard for me to understand why the United States of America is still discussing issues of civil rights, for being one of the world’s strongest super powers we squabble over issues that should have been dealt with years ago. I am just hoping for the day that the United States can give equal rights to all its citizens and members that are involved like we promised over 200 years ago, I am really disappointed in how far we haven’t come.