The Unlucky: Nola, Her Unborn Baby

In the US, black women are over three times more likely to die from maternally related complications than white women, and their babies are less likely to survive their first year (Oparah & Bonparte, 2015). Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy and Childbirth, edited by Julia Chineyere Oparah and Alicia D. Bonaparte tells the stories, experiences, oppression, and subjection of black women in the maternal health care system. Each chapter in the book explained a certain key point in the experience of black women and the health care system. In the following, I will discuss how the medical industrial complex or the introduction of medical treatments has not only stripped women of color, trans women, poor and immigrant women of their autonomy, but has sustained the hierarchy of patriarchy in the health system.

The scene that stood out the most to me was when Dolly’s mother had a miscarriage with their baby boy Larry. That was supposed to be “Dolly’s baby” and she was so excited for his arrival. Going through and even witnessing someone having a miscarriage is very difficult. One of my family members went through a similar situation, but was not nearly as far along as Dolly’s mom was. I feel like this impacted Dolly a lot. She began to question why God would do such a thing and take away not only something that she was so ready and excited for, but also that her family was excited for. At the end of the movie, she realized that God never does anything out of spite. He always has a plan for each and everyone of us. Dolly took this situation and grew

The problems that Emilia Sanchez faces after her abortion is the loss of her social support system she had with her family. The mother and fathers strong religious values consider abortion as a major sin, therefore Emilia’s family do not want her in their home anymore. Without the grandparents the infant will be denied the extra social security and the roles grandparents can provide can decrease the likelihood of the child growing up to be a well-adjusted adult. The potential problems that could have happened if Emilia carried the pregnancy to term is with her present drug abuse the infant could possibly have complications with physical development such as low birth weight. The strength that is in present in this situation that Emilia wants

She gives 7 matches to Chanie when Chanie leaves the campsite. Teacher: He appeared in Chanie’s nightmare, who is a teacher in the residential school that punish the aboriginal children with sexual

Michelle Nunn will work to fix the flaws within the Affordable Care Act while not completely repealing the law. Instead of taking sides, Nunn wants to focus on improving affordability, availability, and efficiency. From her experience as CEO of Points of Light, Nunn understands the difficulty of insuring small businesses. Nunn will work across the political lines to provide health care for Americans. Understanding the difficulties in applying, Nunn wants to delay the individual mandate. Nunn wishes to add a tier of affordability for families, and extend tax credit for small businesses. She wants to ensure people with pre-existing conditions have access to health care. In addition, Nunn supports allowing children up to age 26 to be covered. Through the expansion and reform of ACA, Nunn believes that Americans will have access to affordable, reputable healthcare.

Brooks’ “The Mother” focuses on the burden a mother goes through when having an abortion and giving recognition to the unborn child. Gwendolyn Brooks achieves this by primarily using underlying emotions and providing imagery of what the aborted baby could have been like as the speaker’s child. The narrative voice of “The Mother” uses different point of views throughout the poem and the word choice, both of which are used to portray the burden of guilt of having the operation.

In a tragedy, the main character is usually dignified and courageous. The characters downfall may be caused by a character flaw, or it may result from forces beyond his or hers control. The tragic hero or heroine usually wins some knowledge and wisdom, even though he or she suffers defeat and often death.

Historically perinatal loss such as stillborn is rarely a topic of discussion. (Avelin, Erlandsson, Hildingsson, & Rådestad, 2011). Stillborn loss was not viewed as an problem, and was expected for mothers to forget about the baby, and have another one, while siblings were told to forget about the baby and not talk about the loss (Avelin et al., 2011). Perinatal loss responses can be vary widely as it covers variety of loss from pregnancy to birth within a few weeks, but most often it is an unexpected loss for many families who typically do not know what to do, what to expect and how to handle grief (O’leary & Warland, 2013). Furthermore, there is very little information on Stillbirth experiences especially about men who lose their child(Bonnette & Broom, 2012). Experiencing the loss of a child can be very difficult and often complicate grief which can affect parents social well being (Kersting & Wagner, 2012). In pregnancies that follows a loss such as perinatal loss, it has been found that parents experience high levels of psychological distress, anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress. (O’leary & Warland, 2013; Kersting & Wagner, 2012)

Colleen completed all tasks as outlined in her learning plan. She reviewed and stayed informed on all new policies implimented in the agency. During the beginning of her placement she shadowed the other therapists in the adult outpatient area of the agency as well as observing the partial program, case management program, and initial intake calls. Colleen also worked with a number of different populations while in the placement, including Native American, and learned more about the cultural makeup of the residents of the Homestead community. Colleen co-facilitated an anxiety group with another therapist and routinely sought out cosultation or collaborated with other therapists to work toward proper care for her clients. Colleen also was solely

According to the Oxford dictionary, "abortion is the expulsion of a fetus from the uterus by natural causes before it is able to survive independently." Abortion has perhaps been a highly politicized over the past several decades. The major political parties in the United States have adopted distinct positions on this issue. When the death a fetus occurs naturally, it is called a miscarriage. When the loss of a fetus is caused intentionally, it is regarded as a significant moral and societal issue that needs to be dealt with. An article on washingtonpost.com stated that, "studies show that there is an imbalance between the number of firearms-related deaths 30,000 a year and abortions performed each year in the United States more than 750,000 a year." This shows that more death occur from abortions that firearms. To better picture what an abortion is, the mental image of a baby covered in blood placed in a basin and chopped into about fifty pieces. This will help understand how cruel and wicked abortion is. I intend to argue that abortion is morally, logically, and religiously wrong. Unless murder becomes legal, abortion should remain illegal.

He begins with a mistake, a horrible mistake, a mistake that he appears to revel in. Killing a young innocent girl with a life left unlived, killing a mother with an unborn child who would have been full of joy and life, a father, daughter, son, even killing a loved one. Walking through the pews of what they believe to be a sacred, safe place, looking at their frightened faces, not knowing that he will soon be the frightened one. An 18 month old baby never to learn how to walk, never to learn how to talk, never to make it to the age of three. A 14- year old girl, daughter of a pastor, will never grow up to be an adult, will never find out who she really is, or where her path in life would have taken her. Innocent children who died in a place

Philippa Foot justifies in her essay that there is a distinction between doing and allowing that makes one impermissible and the other not, respectively. This distinction is explained through terms of agency and types of rights. With any event, the person that bring about the harm is considered to be the agent and if the harm interferes with another person’s right to life then the action of the agent is impermissible. In identifying the harm encountered by a person, we need to be able to determine how an agent is related to the harm; whether by initiating new sequence or letting the existing sequence run its course. Essentially as a response to Thomson’s argument on abortion, Foot uses her explanation of doing and allowing to justify that abortion is impermissible since the agent of the event is initiating the fatal sequence.

October 1973 a controversial case arose from Boston concerning an abortion that caused Kenneth Edelin to be charged with manslaughter according to the Massachusetts law. The abortion was preformed at Boston City Hospital, which at the time was doing an array of experiments on aborted fetuses such as examining the effects fetuses have from substances given to the mother such as the drug being able to cross through into the placenta. Also, according to Mildred Jefferson an assistant professor at Boston University, some of the women who were proceeding with the abortions and allowed their fetuses to be used in the experiments may have been too young to legally consent. But nothing happened to those researchers so it was interesting to see that

According to London et al. (2014), stillbirth is defined as the “death of a fetus or infant from the time of conception through the end of the newborn period 28 days after birth” (p. 481). In 2011, in the country of Taiwan, there were a total of 2,321 stillborn births and it was reported that 60% of the women who experienced this loss suffered from severe postpartum depression within 4 years (Tseng, Chen, & Wang, 2014, p. 219). Although it is known that the mothers of these infants suffer with traumatic stress, follow-ups after stillbirths are rare and there is no community support groups available. There is not much information available on the experience of Taiwanese women who experience a stillbirth nor is there information about the steps taken by these women to recover from their loss. Thus, this study seeks to understand the experiences of these Taiwanese women who have experienced the loss of an infant and how they cope within their society (Tseng et al., 2014, p. 219).

It is regrettable that female infanticide and foeticide are rapidly decreasing the female population throughout India. The main factors that is responsible for the increase in the incidence of female infanticide and foeticide is the low status of women, son preference, and the practice of dowry across all casts groups.