Women’s Health Protection Act
I've also read about this act in another article and honestly I believe like this is a right thing to do for women. Women need their voices heard but their voices aren't ever really heard unless someone higher speaks for them such as the house (in this case).
Of course we’re worried that other states, where there is a movement and an effort to prevent women from having access to health care, will copycat what’s happened in Texas
This sort of brings me the question of what would really happen if someone let's say is in Colorado but is a Texas resident and knows that they have been pregnant for 6 weeks already but can't travel back for whatever reason it might be. Would they be able to get an abortion in this state or how would that come to play?
will disproportionately affect women of color:
This connects with one of my readings for my essay because it was already proven that this law affected hispanic women more than white women.
This law is so extreme it does not even allow for exceptions in the case of rape or incest.”
It isn't fair for someone to be exempted from getting an abortion when they have been raped or didn't consent to having any sort of sexual activities with someone whether they do or don't know them.
ix weeks, saying that it “unleashes unconstitutional chaos” against women and vowing that his administration would investigate how the federal government could protect existing constitutional abortion rights
I agree because it really takes around 6 weeks for a woman to find out if she's pregnant which really makes this whole situation really unfair.
55% of Republicans
This correlates with other readings I've gone over since its mostly democratic people, including Biden, that want to step up to help out with these anti-abortion acts.
the woman who found she was pregnant at five weeks but that she had covid-19, so was unable to have an abortion in time
This is actually one of the cases that should definitely be exempted from anything really same as with rape. I don't think it's right for something to be taken away from someone just because they don't have the access to it or had something serious happen in their lives.
Lyft and Uber have said they will pay the legal fees of any driver accused
This is actually new news to me which I didn't really catch onto the first time I read this article. It's crazy how other big companies are willing to step in really.
provide support from federal law enforcement when an abortion clinic or reproductive-health center is under attack
Is this something that will be enforced throughout the entire state and other states that might act the same way as Texas did?
have been unable to perform or assist in terminations from around the sixth week of pregnancy
I just have a question really. How are the people working inside these clinics now making their money? There's really not anything that they can do to sue the state in those cases.
Roe v Wade in 1973
Roe v Wade established the right to an abortion for women back in 1973.
Confirmation bias shows up most blatantly in our current political divide, where each side seems unable to allow that the other side is right about anything.
I actually have heard about this word/phrase in a previous class that I took last year. I feel like it is something that happens to me a lot. I find something interesting anywhere in life really and I immediately try to find information that supports whatever thought/belief I had already constructed, and if notice something that goes against my view, I tend to just put it aside.
Availability bias makes us think that, say, traveling by plane is more dangerous than traveling by car. (Images of plane crashes are more vivid and dramatic in our memory and imagination, and hence more available to our consciousness.)
I never really thought about bias like this and honestly never really knew that there was different types of bias. I think it is quite soothing to my brain at least that these also exist in our world. I feel like I can definitely say that I have put myself in various situations where my availability bias comes into play.
Asked whether they would take $150 a year from now or $180 in 13 months, people are overwhelmingly willing to wait an extra month for the extra $30.
This is a really hard question and I guess it all just really depends on your financial situation. Who is actually willing to wait 13 months for just $30? It's honestly pointless to me. Tomorrow isn't promised.
Tech companies have already begun to take significant steps to block accounts and trolls spreading disinformation about the coronavirus.
This reminds me when people were first getting the vaccine, there was a lot of tiktoks of people supposedly getting full body sort of spasms, and even though it was made as a joke, there was a lot of people who actually believed it was true and stopped themselves from getting vaccinated.
I work as a medical assistant, and this statement just reminds of what the doctors' experience inside the clinics at the time when the virus grew exponentially. I remember one of them telling me that there was days when people were actually scared to come in, and patients were always difficult to deal with when they did come in. Doctors need a lot more praise in this current world.
I remember when I would hear from people or even just on social media how people hypothesized that the vaccine itself had a bit of the COVID-19 live virus, and inferred that that was the reason why people were dying. To this date, there's people that still don't get vaccinated because of the potential death risks they think comes with it.