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Blog Stage 6

Sumin, I find your argument on President Trump and his poor cabinet choices very interesting and true. Trump has created himself quite an image on social media and often times we all get carried away by that. Instead, we should be focusing on how to prevent any detrimental laws from passing that will damage the future of our youth. In relation to education, as you mentioned Sumin, Betsy DeVos, our secretary of education supports and rallies for private schooling which represents a very slim number of our youth today with a majority of the kids getting their education from public schools. With a office member like her, it is vital that we take responsibility to ensure that students in public schools are not harmed or affected with any bills passed by her. From your argument Sumin, I actually learned more about Mike Pence, what he represents and American’s views on him. I learned that many Americans hope to see him as a President after Trump, which could create conflicts as much of

Blog Stage 5: The end of Planned Parenthood?

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The End of Planned Parenthood? Planned Parenthood: a nonprofit organization that Republicans have been after to defund. This past election, gave rise to one of the biggest controversies of our time and that is the defunding, and possibly even replacement, of Planned Parenthood. Its no secret that it has always been a top priority of Republicans to get rid of Planned Parenthood, an organization that provides through more than six hundred clinics across the nation to millions of patients in poverty. In the past, attempts for the program to be defunded have failed due to President Obama’s veto on the bill the House and Senate tried to pass last year. However, this year with President Trump, a republican, in office, the issue of the program’ s defunding is escalating quicker than ever. Planned Parenthood’s services include reproductive health care education such as sex-ed, and health care services (especially for low-income families) such as STD treatments, abortions and other women

Blog Stage 4

The political blog,    Huffington Post,   published an article titled, " Senate Republicans Don’t Know What Health Care Bill They’re About To Vote For. That’s Nuts” by Jeffrey Young. This article talks about the Obamacare repeal, which was seven years in the making and how despite the long process, there still isn’t a good enough bill that a lot of republicans in the Senate are wanting to vote for. The mocking tone of the article clearly indicated that the author’s intended audience was liberal citizens, or more specifically, citizens who do favor Obamacare. Throughout the article, the author would often use sarcasm such as, “ Senate   Republicans   are moving forward with legislation that would gut Medicaid, vastly increase the number of Americans without health coverage, jumble the health insurance market in ways that could cause it to collapse, make it harder for people with pre-existing conditions to get and keep health coverage, and   expose poor people   to unlimited med