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The Impact of US Abortion Policy

June 10, 2019 / / 0 Comments

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/07/us/guam-abortion-legal-no-provider/index.html

Croft, Jay; Boyette, Chris. (June 8, 2019) Abortion is legal in Guam. But the closest provider is a long flight away. Cable News Network. Available at https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/07/us/guam-abortion-legal-no-provider/index.html ( Accessed June 8, 2019).

Questions:a. Person: Guan’s female governor, Lourdes Leon Guerero

Place: Main (Guan), Hawaii; mainland U.S. (Missouri, Alabama, Georgia and others); Northern Mariana Islands.

Time: May 2019 until now or even the future.b. 

Significant/Important:

Places and Governor showed the important of this abortion policy and how unpleasant and bad influences on some island. The first thing we learn from them is it is hard for people in Guam get abortion down in their country (last doctor was retried), also no help from nearby Northern Marianna Islands, because it is illegal to do the abortion in the Philippines. The closet help that Guam’s women can get is from Hawaii which is approximately seven hours away by plane.

     Implications:

1. The fact of Guam has a large amount civilian from U.S, U.S state needs to not only bring policy to state people, but also need to take care of island, especially there a large proportion of U.S people in the Guam.

2. Article pointed out the female governor Lourdes Leon Guerero, presents at this stage, perhaps there is no way to change state policy in today’s society, but female governor in some ways is willing and able to help women and know how to support them.

3. According to Governor Lourdes Leon Guerero, provide girls or young women knowledge or information of pregnancy and so on will be the next thing she can do to help them.c. In the article, there is no clear chart or diagram to show the data, but the number is presenting within the sentence.

1. Clearly to show the problem and giving the knowledge (information) E.g.Jayne Flores in the article said “Guam allows abortion in the first 13 weeks of pregnancy or up to 26 weeks in a case of rape or incest, a grave fetal anomaly, or to protect the woman’s life. 

2. Compare to other place, Guam’s women are hard to get abortion because it is far away, by using the number, shows the distance is hard for pregnancy women in Guam. E.g. Women in the US territory of Guam need to face the burden of crossing the state lines to do the procedure which is around seven hours flight. It is dangerous for a pregnancy women to take a long filght.

3. Numbers in English showed the importance to the whole article. E.g. “The land has its first female governor”. The word “first” shows the significance to the article because the number indicate the proportion of the female in the governor history is zero, expect for this one.

d. After reading the article, I did some researches on US policy about abortion, which turns out many people who agree with the idea of abortion policy are all male, so the implications I got from this information is why women’s right should let males to take over the power?

e. I do trust this source, first, it indicates the US state established abortion policy in the past six months, which is true. Also, Guam is part of US land. According to the article, the US federal laws are also applying to Guam, and Guamanians are US citizens.

f. In some ways, Guam’s idea of abortion shows US does not have a proper protection of every places in US, I would like to know will the US is going to put whole places under their policy.

Public Health in Daily Life

June 10, 2019 / / 0 Comments
In China. A large amount of shared bicycles conveniences Chinese people’s daily life. For example, it is healthy to do the exercises (ride a bike) to go to someplace not too far from the origin. Second, shared bicycle reduce pollution, which helps people to live longer. But an extremely large number of bicycles are creating several serious problems as well, such as it is hard to drive a car with too many bicycles are on the street, it may cause many accidents and some people are damage those bicycles because they are cheaper to use. Some large cities like Beijing are now having the organization for protecting bicycles are being destroyed and so far, its improved people’s living status. This photo was taken from Anqing, China.
Nowadays, air conditioning become one of the important tools in in my hometown, people cannot leave air conditioning during the summer, the temperature could reach 39 Degrees Celsius. On average, nearly every house contains two air conditioning. The use of Freon will cause a higher temperature to the atmosphere. China government are promoting people using air conditioning with environmental protection refrigerant, which reduces the pollution caused by Freon. Also, government suggests people fixes the air conditioning when it is broken rather than buy the new one, which can minimize the use of materials. The photo is taken from Anhui, China.
The use of batteries improves people’s daily life, from baby’s toys to useful tools, they need some batteries to support those technologies to work. So far, a large amount of using batteries and impropriate discard batteries caused a serious problem. Such as contaminating water and the Mercury in batteries are not able to minimize health damage. Scientist and technologies are giving usb charging ideas and use this idea widely. It is one way to reduce the use of batteries. Another one is China government are asking people to buy changeable batteries, so they can use those batteries many times before they discard them. It will reduce the amount of pollution which caused by those batteries. The photo is taken from Anhui, China.

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