Thursday, February 13, 2014

Ballot Initiatives #2

http://votesmart.org/bill/4152/12896/emergency-contraception-for-rape-victims#.Uv15cfldWYk

The purpose of this initiative is to give women who have been sexual assaulted (raped) the proper information about emergency contraception from any licensed health care facility. This is occurring in Connecticut. To get an initiative on the ballot in the state of Connecticut, you have to get enough signatures on your petition.

1. Would this "emergency contraception" be considered abortion?

2. Should women who have been sexual assaulted have the right to an abortion because of the circumstance?

3. Do you think it would be fair for a woman who got raped to be forced to keep the baby?


Monday, February 3, 2014

History of Law #1

http://www.historyoflaw.info/

The history of man would not be what it is without the law. There never has been, and never will be, any group of people not controlled by some form of law. As long as man lives in society and wants to get anything done, there will be organization to do so by the law. Not everyone agrees with the law, though. Sometimes laws provoke rebellion, which defeats the purpose of the law in the first place because they were made to keep order. Laws will always be made by superior powers and man will have to abide by them, therefore mankind is dependent on the law. If two men were stranded on a desert island and one killed the other, it would be hard to declare it a crime and punish them because there were never laws enforced on them because it was only them two.

1) What would happen to mankind if all laws were abolished?
2) Could the man who killed the other man still be punished because murder is illegal all around the world?
3) Where did the thought of "laws" originate?