South Dakota abortiondebacle

this was the possibilty of other states following South Dakota's example.

I know in South Dakota only 800 abortions happen a year, out of a state of over 70,000 people, which doesn't make abortions an everyday occurrence.

I love children, and it's so easy to get attached to something that's so connected to you.

government is trying to overrule Roe vs. Wade totally blows my mind.

SHATOYAHOWARD STAFF WRITER SRH725@CABRINI.EDU

In the news recently, South Dakota lawmakers signed a bill to·ban abortion which, according to the Washington Post, was years in the making.

This ban will make any doctor performing an abortion a criminal, unless the mother will die due to complications during her current pregnancy.

My first thought when I heard

It appears that the Senate isn't taking women's rights into consideration, passing the bill 23-12.

Women's rights groups fought for years to give us the right to choose, and this looks like a step to take that permanently away.

The next thing that occurred to me was that this bill should also include women who were victims of incest and rape. If I ever got pregnant, I would not have an abortion. But if I was a victim of rape or incest, then I would have an abortion.

How.ever,if I had a child due to rape or incest, I don't think I could deal with looking at my child and loving it. I would be feeling a lot of pain and sorrow when I think of how it was conceived.

In that specific situation, the right to choose is very vital to a woman. It's too personal of an issue to be touched.

Also, I don't know if I could deal with telling that child about how they came to be later on in life. I would worry that they may question my love for them because they weren't actually made out of want or love, which would be traumatic for any child.

The fact that any level of the

Is collegethe next high school?

year. It only makes sense that the demand for jobs outside of college would raise too. Competition is fierce.

NIKKI SABELLA ASST. SPORTS EDITOR NS722@CABRINI.EDU

College is undoubtedly harder than high school. It is 10 times more demanding as well, if not mwe. Y~t. even though we think the pressure and tons of work are worth it, are we really getting a step up above the rest?

The amount of high school graduates attending college has gone up greatly. We can see at Cabrini that there hasn't even been enough space for students to live. The number of students being accepted has risen each

One of my biggest fears in life is to be stuck in a dead-end job, such as the one that I've been working at ever since I was in high school. Even though this thought makes me more motivated each day, the idea still frightens me.

In my Seminar 300 class just the other day, we learned about negative aspects ofg]obali;Ution. Included in this discussion was the idea of outsourcing. Soon enough, the outsourcing of jobs will exceed blue-collar jobs and run into the white-collar ones. This means trouble for us college students.

Outsourcing is a doubleedged sword. On one hand, people"think that it's great to give jobs to the poverty-stricken in other countries. The other side of the story is about the povertystricken on our own turf.

I'm not saying that all college graduates are not going to be able to find jobs and will be homeless. It just makes me wonder if we need to surpass college in order to gain an opportunity into the job fields we really want and to ensure we don't lose those jobs to outsourcing.

Planning on going to graduate school and committing to forever being in debt may not be an option for .all. Maybe everyone doesn't want to be further educated. But right now, the cards are dealt and that looks to be many people's fate.

So for all you who despise class as it 'is, buckle up for the long ride ahead of you. College is the new high school, and you are not even close to the admissions office.

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Brought

Honestly, I could never see myself having an abortion unless it was under certain circumstances.

On the other hand, I do think some women use abortion as a form of contraceptive today. So, I can see the government's anger.

Still, I don't feel as though I, or anyone else, has the right to play God and tell women how to run their lives because I don't feel anyone has the right to tell me how to run my own life.

I hope this doesn't spark other states or even the president to try and ban abortion again.

Banning abortion is taking a woman's right to choose away from her, a right that women fc;mghthard to gain.

Additionally, I will say to everyone reading this that maybe you're against abortion and that's fine, but how would you feel as a pregnant rape victim or someone who has been the victim of incest and now is pregnant; not because a condom broke or there was no use of other methods of contraception, but because someone thought that it was acceptable or maybe even necessary to steal something that only you have the authorization to give away, your body, or in some cases, even your virginity.

This is the reality of some females of various ages. What would you do if this was not just a passing thought but a reality? Situations like that should not be overlooked.

Witnessing'poverty over springbreak

CHRIS LEEDS GUEST WRJTER CNL722@CABRINI.EDU

The spirited forefather of Philadelphia seemed dead-on accurate with this adage: poverty indeed strips any human of the ability to choose a life for themselves, or even more damning for their family. Ironically, however, some people take solace in misfortune and limitation. Jn his investigative novel, "Down and Out jn Paris and London," Ge~rge Orwell highlighted his experience as a poor person, one which forced him to relent in stereotyping the less fortunate: "I shall never again think that all tramps are drunken scoundrels, nor expect a beggar to be grateful when I give him a penny, nor be surprised if men out of work lack energy, nor enjoy a smart meal at a restaurant... that is a beginning." Orwell's experience was momentous in its similarity to our journey in Duran, Ecuador.

When one thinks of spring break, headline-size images, palm trees, sun and an overall reprieve from school come to mind. Ecuador certainly boasts these benefits, but the end result of the trip was more than a glorious tan or feats of binge drinking. Ecuador rewarded itself in pure experience, one rooted in an understanding of what poverty is, how helplessness reveals itself and how communities such as Duran can transform the grimmest of conditions with shear optimism.

Duran itself is a coalescing of gaiety and sadness. The sadness, however, is thankfully reserved for the outsider who has never encountered starving children, decrepit housing conditions or undrinkable tap water. Duran's residents brook these conditions with relentless cheer and courage. Our trip, sponsored through the Rostro de Cristo program, "Face of Christ" in English, centered on becoming a witness to these citizens, specifically in seeing how their conditions shape their mentalities, and perhaps even our own.

The landscape and sociology of Duran were indisputably grim. Even the most squalid neighborhood in Camden pales in comparison to a typical situation in Duran, where "a dollar a day" gµides the lives of entire families. In our observations of the schools, homes and citizens of Duran, poverty revealed itself as a genuine and universal evil. Equally damning, it would seem, would be the community's own conscience. Alas, Duran's citizens refused to be enslaved. In Duran, it became clear that poverty is amenable to change, if not through tangible reform, then certainly through a spiritual overhaul, which places hope at the forefront.

In confronting evils such as poverty, raising awareness is key. Anyone willing to participate in understanding such evils will bear witness to them. When the psychology of the poor is positive, however, then change becomes a transcendent tool. Rostro de Cristo afforded our group the ability to mimic Duran's positive psychology, to forget our own value system and to begin to define poverty as a universal evil which merits immediate change. Without being pedantic, it seems that this process is accessible to anyone who desires even a minimal change in how the least fortunate of people live.

As Mark Twain said, "Remember the poor; it costs nothing."