Clinic Fire In Florida

Last Sunday in Pensacola, Florida a fire burned the American Family Planning clinic. The fire was started in a suspicious manner. This lead to other discoveries such as the history of bomings , fires, and violence in general that this abortion clinic has endured. But, also the discovery of the doctor that gave a woman a last abortion in Maryland. Clinic bombings and violence has been going on for years and in fact about 20% of all abortion clinics will have some sort of violence done to them. The violence is mainly done by people who are angry about abortion and want it to stop.

The laws about abortion in America was decided through the Roe v. Wade case. Although there are national laws states can still make their own laws on the subject of abortion.

UPDATE: The police in Florida have made an arrest. They are accusing Bobby Joe Rogers for the fire which caused $300,000 in damages.
(http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/05/justice/florida-clinic-fire/index.html?iref=allsearch)

If you were to draft a law regaurding abortion, what would the law be and why?

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Sofia's Current Event

After being hassled by Target employees for nursing her baby in the corner of the woman's clothing department, Michelle Hickman had enough, along with about 3,000 other women nationwide.

Hickman brought the attention to this event by sharing her story with a group called Best for Babes Foundation, who later shared it over Facebook, which started the campaigning. They created a "nurse-in" where all these woman would breastfeed in public Targets across the country to hope get their message out that they should not be frowned upon for nursing in public. They protested in about 240 Targets among the US and made sure to focus on Connecticut because of its past with public breast feeding.

Back in 2001 Connecticut past a law saying that woman have the right to breastfeed anywhere they want no matter what public area, but even with laws woman are still getting kicked out of paces or being hassled for doing so. Although during the "nurse-in" Connecticut stores seemed to react positively towards this protest, but many other stores did not. Even with the chain store’s official policy permitting women to nurse anywhere they want in the store, managers still seemed to dislike this and not allow woman to nurse their children.

This has also been brought up to the L&M Hospital to try and make their hospital more baby friendly, by promoting breastfeeding towards new mothers with their newborns. Also The American Academy of Pediatrics believes that it is the healthiest for mothers to breastfeed for the first six months of the baby’s life. The problem is with employees and business owners not allowing woman to nurse in their public stores it is not giving the mother the option to nurse their child as long as the wish or is recommended.

So in your opinion were these woman right to hold this “nurse-in” or do you believe that mothers should keep their breastfeeding in their homes and not in public? Why? If you believe that they should have the right to nurse in pubic what are some actions to make it not as frowned upon as it is right now?

http://newscanaan.patch.com