Personal Narrative: The USA Patriot Act

9/11 turned out to be a turning point in every Americans life. I remember so vividly what I was doing when I found out a plane had hit the World Trade Center. I had just got back home from dropping my son off at daycare and was laying on the couch trying to decide whether to take a nap or fix me some breakfast. I had just found out the week before that I was almost out of the woods for a miscarriage. For almost a month I went to doctor appointments every week because there was an amniotic sac but no baby inside of it. The doctors were sure that I would miscarry but after the second week with no miscarriage they thought that I would need to have a D & C done to remove the false pregnancy. I begged the doctor to wait a little longer and they agreed. I went back again and still no baby, they told if I came back the next week and there was still no baby they would be forced to do the procedure. I went back the following week and not only was there
Well the USA Patriot Act was signed into law during the Bush administration. That’s George W. Bush Sr. that I’m talking about. According to the author of A Gift of Fire, Sara Baase, the USA Patriot Act “(passed after the terrorist attacks in 2001) eased government access to many kinds of personal information, including library and financial records, without a court order.” An internet search will tell you that the USA Patriot Act is “An Act: To deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world, to enhance law enforcement investigatory tools, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled.” The events of 9/11 brought about this change, had the government had this access maybe the events of that horrific day could have been avoided or halted before so many lives were