{"id":1671,"date":"2021-11-24T19:04:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T00:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2021-11-24T19:06:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T00:06:55","slug":"reproductive-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/2021\/11\/24\/reproductive-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Reproductive Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This week we\u00a0looked into\u00a0reproductive justice,\u00a0and we watched some interesting\u00a0videos, a documentary by the name \u201cThe Abortion Divide\u201d<\/em> and \u201cHobby Lobby on Last Week\u00a0Tonight.\u201d <\/em>The documentary \u201cThe Abortion Divide\u201d <\/em>by Frontline talks\u00a0about the\u00a0fight over abortion and the stories\u00a0of women who were struggling\/having problems with unexpected pregnancies. The documentary was centered on the\u00a0story of women who went to the\u00a0\u201cAbortion clinic\u201d\u00a0located in Chester, Pennsylvania to take\u00a0out\u00a0their babies\u00a0due to one problem or another.\u00a0These women decided to have an abortion because they believe they won\u2019t be able to take care of the baby\u00a0or give the baby a good life when it\u2019s born. These women had a\u00a0hard time\u00a0making these decisions\u00a0and\u00a0had no choice because some of them can\u2019t handle\u00a0being\u00a0single parents and really had no one to support them if they keep the baby.\u00a0Abortion is one topic that easily becomes overlooked, what is sometimes left out in this discussion about abortion are the real experiences and the difficult decisions that women face.\u00a0At\u00a0the beginning of the documentary, we see the\u00a0protesters outside the clinic opposing and trying to stop women from getting an abortion. One of the\u00a0protesters said, \u201cWe pray for their babies and for them, and we also pray for the, for the abortionists, maybe some of them don\u2019t realize what they\u2019re doing.\u201d These people\u00a0really don\u2019t know how long it took\u00a0these women to make that choice. A lot of women are being judged and harassed by people just because they had an abortion without even trying to hear their side of the story and why they decided to\u00a0take that step.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 The documentary also shares the stories of those brave women who came to the \u201cAbortion Clinic\u201d to get an abortion. Some of these women took this step due to some personal issues or problems that they cannot control. One of the women named Shaharra said \u201cI don\u2019t want to bring another child into the world, and I’m not financially stable. I\u2019m already struggling with the four that I have and I’m not sure what my other option would be, but if this wasn\u2019t an option, then I know I would be struggling.\u201d This woman believed that having that baby will make her struggle, so why bring in a child and then let them suffer. These are some of the things people need to understand before judging or harassing a woman. Also, some of these women who get this abortion might have been raped or left by their boyfriends and they had to do it in order not to be judged by society for getting pregnant out of wedlock. One other woman by the name of Christine shows us how difficult and emotional it can be to have an abortion after she found out she was pregnant with twins. I believe hearing that made her decisions harder but, in the end, she had to go on with it because of her son who was \u201cMore leaning towards Asperger\u2019s and doesn\u2019t like interacting with humans.\u201d She thought having babies would really affect the health of her son Nobel. I think a lot of people need to stop seeing women who go through abortion as being heartless or wicked because they don\u2019t know what is going on in their lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my classmate\u2019s snapshot, Enrique shows some images of women holding signs that said, \u201cMy body, My choice and No to jail for abortion. I love this image because it shows that the choice is that of the woman and the body in question is hers and she should not be questioned or sent to jail because she had an abortion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The documentary \u201cHobby Lobby: Last Week Tonight\u201d<\/em> with John Oliver talks about the supreme court\u2019s ruling hanging on the religious\u00a0right of Hobby Lobby. John Oliver takes us through other ways different\u00a0corporations\u00a0can be more like humans\/people.\u00a0The video talks about the\u00a0belief\u00a0of\u00a0Hobby Lobby about using contraception which is supposed to help prevent pregnancy.\u00a0This is what the\u00a0owners\u00a0of Hobby Lobby had to say about it. According to John Oliver,\u00a0they said\u00a0that \u201cObamacare\u2019s contraception mandate conflicts with their\u00a0Christian\u00a0faith.\u201d\u00a0All these till bowls down to the abortion talk, A lot of religious\u00a0centers believe having an abortion or taking birth control pills is a sin but in the right sense,\u00a0it is not because\u00a0everything happens for a reason.\u00a0Just because one belongs to a religion that does not give\u00a0him\/her the right\u00a0to pick or\u00a0choose the laws everyone will follow.\u00a0After the\u00a0company\u00a0challenged the Obama\u00a0Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) contraception mandate in\u00a0court,\u00a0they\u00a0also\u00a0felt it wasn\u2019t right for them to pay\u00a0taxes\u00a0because it was against their faith.\u00a0This\u00a0led\u00a0to some fundamental questions; Do for profits corporations have religious rights? Do\u00a0corporations have religious liberties or\u00a0are they\u00a0just individuals? Are\u00a0corporations,\u00a0as a\u00a0Person,\u00a0able to exercise\u00a0religious rights? The answer is\u00a0No.\u00a0However,\u00a0the\u00a0Citizens United ruling made it possible for corporations to\u00a0have the same free speech right as people but then it won\u2019t be easy for corporations to have\u00a0the same\u00a0religious rights as people have.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week we\u00a0looked into\u00a0reproductive justice,\u00a0and we watched some interesting\u00a0videos, a documentary by the name \u201cThe Abortion Divide\u201d and \u201cHobby Lobby on Last Week\u00a0Tonight.\u201d The documentary \u201cThe Abortion Divide\u201d by Frontline talks\u00a0about the\u00a0fight over abortion and the stories\u00a0of women who were struggling\/having problems with unexpected pregnancies. The documentary was centered on the\u00a0story of women who went […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3946,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-response-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3946"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1674,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions\/1674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}