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Missouri reintroduced a bill stating that a woman had to have written consent from the father before she could have an abortion. Rick Brattin, a supporter of the bill, said that since he has to get written consent from his wife to have a vasectomy, women should have written consent to have an abortion. Pro choice groups are extremely mad at the idea.

This article describes the meaning of the rights of the accused. Not only does the author give an example of each right, but it is explained why it is so important to those who need it.

Freedom of speech is the cornerstone of democracy. The fundamental right to be able to speak freely is written into the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and the Bill of Rights.

In this article Senator Dennis Rehberg explains why he is approving a bill that will take land from the people of Montana. The bill would give control of the land to the federal government and take it away from Montana; without any in-put from the people.

This webpage lists the freedoms of Americans. Under each freedom there is a short synopsis of what rights the freedom grants the people of America. It is a good resource for a list of the personal freedoms.

This website lists all the rights of American Citizens. It also gives background on the Bill of Rights and the Constitution.

This site is interesting because it list a variety of personal freedoms and gives a brief definition of each one.

Includes all what can and cannot be done in the 50 U.S. states concerning breastfeeding in public. By informing accurate dates and bills, it becomes very easy to diminish what is legal and what is not.

Pediatricians and health officials promote the many health benefits of breastfeeding infants the first year of life. Breastfeeding legal rights include public breastfeeding and breastfeeding in the workplace. Lists state laws individually.

Breastfeeding moms are protected by the law to breast feed in public as discussed in this article. You can find all the laws in the US and the responsibility of an employer to provide breastfeeding accommodations to a breast feeding mother.

This site actually gives a description of the law in understandable laymen's terms. It also has links to the Full Law and detailed Patient's Bill of Rights

Interesting blog on the legalization of drugs and the right to control your body. With emphasis on the federal governments contemporary prohibition policy.

This article is about a bill that passed shortly after the tragic shooting of Gabrielle Giffords. The bill states that professors at the University of Arizona are able to carry handguns on campus.

California bill making way through Senate requireing parents must speak to a health care professional before signing personal immunization exemption form for their child. The article raises questions about the rights of all children, those immunized and those not immunized.

Do states have the right to Discriminate against us. Governor Jan Brewer vetoes SB1062 a bill giving business the right to discriminate against anyone that the owner feels against their own "religious liberty". The article sites a few more example of this discrimination throughout our history.

This website is very educational. It has a list of the Articles and Amendment of the Constitution, the text from the Constitution, and a Learn More tab that contains definitions from their legal dictionary and encyclopedia. They have also provided suggested reading material.

Discusses New York governor signing bills to initiate steps to giving women fair rights in the workplace. Some of the bills include laws put into place such as pay equality and sexual harassment in the workplace.

Article describing the new bill passed prohibiting pregnant women from being shackled in Arizona prisons. Gives a list of the criteria it will follow

The National Security Agency has greatly expanded since September 11, 2001. People have come forward and recently exposed the corruption of the system, and the spying the agency has conducted on millions of Americans, through phone calls and other mass forms of media we consume everyday.

I understand the reason for the surveillance, but I feel that if they find nothing wrong, they should move on. I also feel that it is a violation of peoples' rights to privacy. If I was a suspected terrorist or caught peeping on sites that I shouldn't, please track me so that I don't hurt anyone or do irreparable damage. However, if you spy on me and all I do is talk to family and do homework, pay bills and occasionally visit Facebook, then just leave me alone. Spend the time watching someone that you should be.

Whether the NSA is listening to you or not, if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about, they are not sharing your information with others, nor are they even listening closely to your conversation. The NSA was weakened through the repealing of the patriot act last year, and since there have been 3 major terror attacks on the homeland, a clear rise in terror in the homeland through the gained power of terrorist due to paranoia from American citizens, who value privacy over safety.

There are many major problems within our healthcare system. For instance, there is a huge shortage of healthcare workers. We need healthcare workers in order for hospitals to run smoothly. Not only is there a shortage of workers, there is an opioid crisis as well. Many things need to be done in order to fix the healthcare system.

The healthcare system is a mess right now. A lot of healthcare workers were called heroes in the beginning of covid and now they're being fired because they don't feel comfortable getting the vaccine. The shortage is from them getting fired. I actually lost my best friend to an accidental overdose.

Americans spend almost twice as much on health care then the average for the 10 most high earning nations despite having the highest rate of mortality and suicide. There are people who would just as soon try and deal with a broken bone on their own then risk thousands and thousands of dollars worth of medical bills.

This article shows a first hand account to witnessing the protests on Trumps Muslim ban.

I believe this article is a good look at what a confirmation bias is. I took a few moments to look up the author. He has authored four books, three of which are about the Clinton family. However desperate the situation may be, I don't believe this article really hit the nail on the head. I am sure I am guilty of this as well however with my own articles, at least one of them. It is really hard to perform research without searching for information that supports a claim. All of that is my opinion. HOWEVER, this is what I would assume to be a Primary Source. Albeit does not have the appropriate domain names, I do believe this would fit the bill for many an argumentative literary pieces. In that regard Kuddos my friend. Great read, and even greater discussion!

This article tells about Donald Trump signing an executive order to defund Planned Parenthood. It also states that the International Planned Parenthood Federation plans on not stopping abortions.

I think the president is a social just issue on his own. the more I read on what he is doing the more I can't believe that he was elected. All your articles that you have found provide great information that I was completely unaware of, this being one of them.

President Trump signed an executive order on Monday halting all federal funds from organizations that promote abortion around the world, including Planned Parenthood. This bill will prohibit some of the poorest women around the world from having a choice in what to do with their bodies.

This article is from Fordham's International Law Journal, one of the most competitive international law periodicals in the world. It compares how the access to justice in America relates to the access of justice in other countries. It contains several tables about relative government expenditures on civil legal services.

If New Deal legislation had been enacted in the 1930s requiring people to tip waiters 15 percent of the total amount of their restaurant bill, we might have been subjected to the following debate today: Repeal Advocate: Don't you think we ought to repeal the tipping law and let each person decide for himself how much to tip a waiter or, for that matter, whether to tip at all?