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.