Open-Web Source

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2019/07/30/new-laws-deepen-state-differences-over-abortion 

The article “New Laws Deepen State Differences Over Abortion” talks about the new laws that have garnered media attention and that has had a “salutary” effect by educating the public, which explained a lot about the opposing opinions evidenced by fake news by society. That article specifies the differences and arguments of states that have restrictive abortion laws and those that they don’t. For instance, New York, Rhode Island, Illinois, etc, have intended to defend women’s rights with law. On the county, Georgia, North Decoda, Mississippi, Missouri, etc, have permitted their political and religious beliefs into deciding for women’s rights. However, Vestal points out the political polarization and division within those states, that Democratic-led states are in favor of women’s rights, and Republic-led states are not.

Magazine Source

 https://www.vox.com/2019/5/16/18628002/abortion-ohio-alabama-georgia-law-bill-details 

In the article, Abortion in America” by Anna North, explains the 10 common facts about abortion in America. The article contains useful, factual information such as the percentage of women that will have an abortion by 45, which is 23.7%. North explains that there was a decline in abortion rates over the decade, and most women who obtain abortion already have kids. The article informs about four states that have restricted abortion rights to women, such as Alabama, Missouri, North Dakota, and Kentucky. However, Roe V. Wade has played an important role in such cause because most of the passed bills are aimed at such landmark. 

Newspaper

https://www.wsj.com/articles/supreme-court-justices-voice-clashing-views-as-they-weigh-louisiana-abortion-law-11583345306?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=11

The magazine article “ Supreme Court Justices Voice Clashing Views as They Weigh Louisiana Abortion Law” by Jess Bravin and Brent Kendall, talk about the recent restrictive abortion laws in Louisiana and the struggles that women of that state are facing such as leaving the state with one clinic because they want “to bring abortion regulations in line”. However, Justice Alito claimed that the clinics hold a conflict of interest with women seeking an abortion. After days of arguing, the prosecutor wanted to admit the closure of the two out of three abortion clinics. However, there was a 30 miles radius to access abortion clinics and it is the first step to United States moving forward, as women now have better community health care toward abortion. 

Peer-reviewed Source

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This peer-reviewed text talks about systemic and socio-cultural barriers that women of Georgia face limiting access to abortion services. The text consolidates abortion stigma that causes stress to women because of fear of judgment, isolation, and decision. The article suggests that religion has also played an important role in the state’s restrictive laws and the lack of resources in most of the Southern states of the United States. However, the text provides a lot of case studies about abortion rates and in-depth interviews of different resources and reasons such as religion, legislative system, and a mix of “sociodemographic characteristics”

These are the four articles I will be using for my source-based essay on poverty.

1. Kurtzleben, Danielle. “Seeking Suburban Votes, Trump To Repeal Rule Combating Racial Bias In Housing.” NPR, NPR, 21 July 2020, www.npr.org/2020/07/21/893471887/seeking-suburban-votes-trump-targets-rule-to-combat-racial-bias-in-housing. 

• This article is highlighting the tweet Donald Trump made regarding the AFFH Housing regulation of which was implemented by the Obama Biden administration to combat discrimination in federally assisted jurisdictions. In simple terms, it forced those areas receiving federal housing funds to assess the amount of discrimination they have and work on a plan to diminish it. This is an important piece of legislation as it forced those receiving money from the United States government to really look at their own practices and the practices that were instigated in shaping communities since segregation, hence it banned them from looking away and pretending this wasn’t an issue. Trump is praising the rescinding of this legislation because his base is mostly white and this type of legislation would make it likely to put affordable housing in the suburbs where his base tends to reside. In other words he wants to keep the suburbs white and not have affordable housing there. 

1. Sherwin, Wilson. “Turning Shame to Blame: Advancing the fortunes of the poor starts with a change in perspective.” The Progressive, vol. 84, no. 2, Apr.-May 2020, p. 24. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://link-gale-com.ccny-proxy1.libr.ccny.cuny.edu/apps/doc/A622649623/OVIC?u=cuny_ccny&sid=OVIC&xid=97c197ff. Accessed 18 Sept. 2020.

• This magazine article is trying to convey the point that throughout history those in poverty, if the poverty becomes widespread enough, will develop a collectivist spirit and take matters into their own hands. The author portrays this with a wonderful organization called the poor people’s campaign which was formed in 2018. The poor people’s campaign has ideas focused on an annual UBI (akin to the platform democratic Andrew Yang ran on, though he wanted a monthly UBI), systematic racism, our war economy, and ecological devastation. The authors point in referencing this organization is to reinforce the idea that those suffering will eventually get pissed off enough to take action.

1. Smialek, Jeanna, et al. “U.S. Poverty Hit a Record Low Before the Pandemic Recession.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 15 Sept. 2020, www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/business/economy/poverty-record-low-prior-to-pandemic.html.

• This NY Times news piece sheds light on the many factors or interweaving webs that poverty is tangled in. It sheds light onto the recent impact of coronavirus and how low poverty was before its impact due to our labor heavy economy. But the news piece also makes a great point that even though income was rising and poverty was the lowest it has been it is besides the point if people are only a couple missed paychecks away from entering poverty as the impacts of the coronavirus have clearly shown. It goes on to talk about how healthcare plays a role in poverty and the widening gap between the rich and the poor. 

1. Finch WH and Hernández Finch ME (2020) Poverty and Covid-19: Rates of Incidence and Deaths in the United States During the First 10 Weeks of the Pandemic. Front. Sociol. 5:47. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2020.00047

• This scientific study attempted to analyze the first 10 weeks of the coronavirus and its relation to poverty. It found out that more poor countries initially had a higher death rate and infection rate but that over time more wealthy countries overtook them. It has pointed to the lack of testing that usually means a great amount of lost lives in a COVID infected country. This is why it points to America’s large amount of deaths due to its incredibly mixed response. This is because in countries that focused on contact tracing and surveillance (South Korea, Singapore) inherited a very low rate of the virus but since this was not implementable in America (Americans don’t like being tracked) we focused on masks and lock downs to slow the virus. The researchers made a clear point that the effect of this method may not be clearly known for a long time but its initial results don’t look promising. 

Newspaper Article：

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/calif-man-allegedly-waterboarded-wife-held-captive-article-1.3964136

In “California man allegedly waterboarded wife, held her captive while he was on drugs” by Elizabeth, this news reported on a California man named Richard Schlosser who privately imprisoned his wife in his apartment and tortured her for two months while he was high on drugs. In addition, he waterboarded his wife. In the wife’s account, her husband not only beat her, kicked her, but also cut her with scissors. This domestic violence has risen severely to a criminal act. According to reports, Richard Schlosser is guilty of torture, false imprisonment, criminal threats and corporal punishment of the spouse. This type of domestic violence that is a menace and danger to modern society.

Scholarly Source：

https://www.nap.edu/catalog/5285/violence-in-families-assessing-prevention-and-treatment-programs

In “Violence in Families：Assessing Prevention and Treatment Programs” by Rosemary Chalk and Patricia A. King, it summarized the mental health problems that have affected children, adults, and the elderly over the past three decades, as well as the increasing frequency of child abuse in our society, not only physical abuse, but also emotional and sexual abuse. And the fact that nearly three million children in the U.S. have requested protection from the government, with a variety of different programs available. Protection agencies are providing assistance. In addition to providing advice on protection policies now in place, and we need to promote the effectiveness of domestic violence interventions in all settings.

Magazine Article：

https://www.thecut.com/2020/04/self-isolating-with-your-abuser.html#_ga=2.34011241.999447702.1600457393-2059133946.1600457393

“He Was The Last Person I Want To Be Stuck With,” a magazine story about a woman who was with her abusive partner during the COVID-19 epidemic. After the girl found out that the guy was cheating on her, he started to be violent, such as grabbing her hair, holding her down and beating her up. This is a very common occurrence of domestic violence, which not only hurts the girl’s rights but also undermines social norms of behavior. During the COVID-19, social isolation due to quarantine at home means that domestic violence became increasingly ‘aggressive’. Abusers are even more rampant due to the financial and emotional pressures of life, prompting them to lash out at their partners in increasingly extreme ways. So victims can send out distress signals to close friends and family members to prevent further harm from occurring.

Social media post：

https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/cj-jp/fv-vf/about-apropos.html

Domestic violence is when someone uses domestic abuse to hurt a family member or someone in a close relationship, It comes in many forms of violence, such as physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, financial abuse and neglect. Also, there are 6 types of family violence: Intimate partner violence, child abuse and neglect, elder abuse, violence based on so-called “honour”, forced marriage, female genital mutilation. Furthermore, domestic violence has hurt the physical and mental health of the victims and even the safety of life; secondly, it’s a serious injury to the mental health of the victims, more likely to lead to mental disorder, overwhelmed, self-inflicted suicide, running away from home, violence and a series of tragedies. The problem of domestic violence is a great burden to the whole society and even to the harmony and stability of the country.

Open, USA Today

“Does my wheelchair make you uncomfortable? How my disability may have cost me a job.”

Dayniah Manderson is a Black woman and a tenured educator who has Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type II, a neural disease that confines her to a motorized wheelchair. In this opinion piece she shares a personal experience with interview discrimination alongside her account of an continuing education program she encountered that was not fully accessible. Her tone is self-serving and she is speaking to the able bodied public, the everyday casual reader of the publication. Manderson tells emotionally centered stories that spotlight the societal commonplace of equal opportunity employment injustices and align with disability advocacy.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2018/10/08/disability-access-job-interview-teacher-discrimination-ada-ableism-accommodation-column/1501095002/

Magazine, TIME

“‘Our Lives Are at Stake.” How Donald Trump Inadvertently Sparked a New Disability Rights Movement”

This is a political article, written by Abigail Abrams, with the clear intention of educating the readers of TIME about how individuals with disabilities have been impacted by the Affordable Healthcare Act repeal and what steps they are taking to advocate for themselves and their peers. She writes on the side of the afflicted but her address is fact driven and fair. The article opens and concludes with the personal reflection of a woman with muscular dystrophy who’s advocacy journey became more intense with the recent political shift, and specific interview quotes from other disabled and able bodied individuals are also used for effect throughout. This piece is written to specifically bring attention to the the minority represented however the author does remain relatively neutral, reporting information rather than opinion.

https://time.com/5168472/disability-activism-trump/

Newspaper, The Washington Post

“Virginia’s expansion of disability services leaves Fairfax County short of funds”

Antonio Olivio writes this fact driven and informative news piece about the increased funding necessary for disability services in Virginia. He methodically provides the reader with an account of how Fairfax County’s attempt at providing services to a larger more inclusive group of disabled individuals surpasses the current allotted budget. The article clearly presents the goal of the redesign, how it will impact individuals with disabilities, and positions of advocates in agreement and opposition to the plan’s objectives. The author is speaking to taxpaying residents and disabled recipients as well as those involved in disability advocacy to notify and educate.. He is without alliance, states zero opinions, and poses no questions. The purpose of this article is to bring the public up to speed on the area’s new disability services plan and its proposed cost.

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Scholarly, Social Inclusion

“Leveraging Employer in Global Regulatory Frameworks to Improve Employment Outcomes for People with Disabilities”

Matthew C. Saleh and Susanne M. Bruyere present a scholarly report that was part of the issue “Disability Equality: In Theory and Practice” in the Academic Journal Social Inclusion. Thoroughly researched and peer reviewed it is fact driven and statistically laden. Its purpose is to emphasis the impact employers can make in improving outcomes for disabled individuals, in contrast to previous studies and reports that primarily represent the viewpoint of the individual. It explores international regulations and the “empirically supported best practices in recruitment, hiring, advancement, retention, and full inclusion of individuals with disabilities in the workforce.” The authors’ objective when addressing their peers is to provide quantitative and diligently investigated information that advances the study of disability discrimination in the workplace. More specifically advocating policy-making considerations in support of the employer. Showcasing the potential that inclusive practices and their implementation strategies can make in increasing the accessibility of the open labor market and therefore favorably impacting the diversely-abled population in relation to fair employment opportunity.

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