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Blog 3: Commentary of national newspaper

In the Los Angeles Times article, " States with the worst anti-abortion laws also have the worst infant mortality rates " Michael Hiltzik proposes a correlation between infant mortality and laws restricting or prohibiting abortion. Hiltzik uses statistics such as how Alabama, "tied for fourth-worth place in infant mortality" with a rate of "7.4 deaths per 1,000 live births" and with Georgia having "7.2, tied for seventh-worst" and these were both states that have enacted abortion restrictions recently. He attributes the restrictions on abortions to push women to find other methods to abort, which are usually very unsafe for the women and child. Another statistic used was the maternal death rate in Texas in 2010 "72 deaths per 100,000 live births" which rose to "148 deaths per 100,000 live births" by 2012, another statistic that is claimed to be correlated to the "state's closing of abortion clinics and cuts in funding...
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Blog 8

I thought Betsy's blog about voter turnout was quite interesting, I have never heard of the government offering cash incentives to people just for voting, this is a great tactic to increase voter turnout because who doesn't like getting free money? In Betsy's blog she quoted from The Washington Post   that in the state of California a cash incentive "of only $25 raised turnout in municipal elections by almost 5 percent." Betsy also commented on how a man won $10,000 in Philadelphia! This is crazy to me, how could you not want to vote if you are given the chance to win that much of an amount of money. Texas voter turnout is very low and I agree with you Betsy, Texas does need incorporate this tactic, even if it is as little as $5, broke people in college will definitely appreciate it and I am sure the Texas voter turnout will increase if they do this. I enjoyed reading Betsy's blog as well as The Washington Post's article about voter turnout, I have never ...
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The War on Drugs is over.   Yes you can guess who won… drugs. So why isn’t marijuana legal in all states already? In order for a state to legalize marijuana an attorney has to write the memos that provide basic guidelines for legalization, if the state met these guidelines then federal prosecutors would have to act upon. 6 out of 10 (62%) Americans support legalization of marijuana (doubled since 2000, 31%) then why is it not legal nationwide already? If a person living in Colorado is prescribed medical marijuana and has to move or travel to a different state that doesn’t prescribe marijuana then they will have a really hard time. So it doesn’t really make sense to make marijuana legal in some states but not the others.    It is time for congress to respect Sen. Ron Wyden’s proposal for S.420, which would remove marijuana from the Controlled Substance Act causing it to be descheduled and to be sold like alcohol. The main benefits of this would be, tax revenue fo...
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