This weeks readings and video informed me a great deal about how abortion is seen in society today and how it has been a decision in the hands of others who aren’t even women but white men in power. In my opinion, the article “Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows” written by Josh Gerstein and Alexander Ward was a very informative piece of writing that obviously teaches you about the initial theory on abortion and making it legal in fifty states however, it also informs you on what’s going on in current society and the supreme court today. I think the leaked document about Roe v. Wade being drafted by Samuel Alito was shocking. It’s in a way unbelievable to me that men are making decisions for women and their bodies without any experience of being a woman at all. I think people like Samuel Alito make abortion personal, they make their own personal opinions on abortion allow them to dictate their actions and how they feel towards it. It’s kind of like persuading others to feel how you feel or think how you think because you think you know better or more than everybody else. But, in my opinion, that’s not the case. Alito stated in the article, “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far from the bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division.” I found this quote to be a bit shocking, the fact the Alito believes that the abortion debate has deepened division throughout our society is weird to me. Why does how we view abortion and how we go about it for the past decade or longer deepened division in our world? It doesn’t make sense to me. Why are men in power given so much leeway to make decisions for women and their bodies based on what they feel is right or ethical?. I learned from the readings this week what exactly is going on in the Supreme Court regarding abortion and the draft, the different types of abortions a woman can have (I didn’t know there was various types, I didn’t even know a miscarriage can count as an abortion), and how woman struggle in states where they make it harder for you to get an abortion or get funding for an abortion when you don’t have the money. The quote by bell hooks spoke to me, her idea that one is not an advocate of feminist politics if they are anti-abortion. I think that alone speaks a thousand words to what is happening in society today with the Supreme Court; most of these people in power are not advocates of feminist politics, they don’t truly support women because if they did they wouldn’t be anti-abortion, they wouldn’t be fighting tooth and nail for a law to be overturned. They would respect women, their bodies, and their decisions in which they choose to have a child or not. The thirteen minute documentary “Abortion Helpline, This is Lisa” opened to my eyes on how hard it is for women to get abortions due to their different situations and the rules and regulations on funding for abortions based off of a questionnaire. It’s sad to me that these women get funding based on their situations, they don’t have the privilege of just automatically getting the funding or just using their insurance and walking into a clinic like Planned Parenthood. I think we often take for granted the privilege in certain states like New York where you can get an abortion no questions asked and if you don’t have insurance, clinics like Planned Parenthood can get you insurance right on the spot to pay for whatever services you may need that day or in the future.