Preview

reaction paper

Satisfactory Essays
Open Document
Open Document
796 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
reaction paper
Tarlac Montessori School
La Puerta del Sol Hi-land Subd. San Sebastian, Tarlac City

A Commentary on Moral and Social Issues

Presented by:
Patricia Nicole C. Plopinio
IV- St. Pio

Presented to:
Sir Kroy Ruiz M. Sonz There has been a very heated debate concerning abortion in the current world we live in. Do we or do we not kill a human being, an organism? That is basically the question everyone asks and each person has their own answer. Personally, I think abortion is tantamount to murder. Once a sperm and an egg cell unite, an organism is formed and its DNA fuses and its entire genetic make-up is written for the organism, in this case, the human zygote to live out. In that short amount of time, an organism is made and is considered alive, an identity is synthesized and, in the future, an entity will be embodied. In the news article, a young couple illegally went through the process of abortion without a registered physician and proper materials and tools. They bought a drug that is not safe for pregnant women to use for the girl to take and that ended up killing their 4-month old child. Her boyfriend had to physically extract the body of the dead child out of the mother. After the procedure, the girl had some complications and was brought to the hospital for doctors and police to find out. This tells me that only God has the power to create and destroy life and as human beings, we are in no power to play the role of God and choose who lives and who dies. Once we try to tamper with life, our life takes the toll. The second article is about an investigation by Malacanang on the recent “Sex-for-Flight” scandal where some Philippine officials in Philippine embassies around different parts of the world have been forcing female OFWs to partake in sexual activities and pay the officials sexual favors before they are given pardon to return to our country. I shall get straight to the point by saying that this disgusts

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    The story To Build a Fire demonstrates possible dangers of traveling in the Yukon under extreme cold. Through a young man, Jack London depicts the consequences of ignoring instinct and survival advice. The man travels with a dog, who can perceive the dangers of the freezing wilderness. The reader learns of the man's personality through descriptive words and phrases while journeying through the story.…

    • 857 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The debate over whether abortion should be legal and to what point in the pregnancy it should be allowed has polarized many societies. Many religious preach that at the moment of conception, the new life is human and possesses a soul. Therefore, abortion is murder. Other, less extreme views, suggest the life is not human until there is a recognizable "completion of form." A third view proposes we have an obligation to create a good life for all children already born before we bring more unwanted children into the world.…

    • 726 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Abortion is defined as: "the termination of pregnancy and expulsion of an embryo or of a fetus that is incapable of survival." However, if only the debate over the abortion issue was as simple as the definition provided above. Much like every aspect of human life, a statement is neither right nor wrong, but simply left open for interpretation. There is no black and white in life, only gray areas. Some issues tend to provide us more gray areas than others. Abortion is a prime example of that. Those who refute abortion claim that it is the murder of a helpless baby who has not yet had the chance to live and function as a human being. However, the debate opposite it is just as fervent: it is a woman 's right to choose what happens to her body, and if she decides that she is not capable of bringing a child into this world, than she shouldn 't be forced to out of nature. Where do we draw the line between humane and inhumane, necessitated death and murder? When does a woman 's right over her internal reproductive organs become that of the government 's? Is abortion wrong or is it right? Are rape, incest, and potential fatality to the mother exceptions when abortion is "okay"? Are there truly any at all? So many questions are raised by such a fervent debate, that we must look at both sides of the issue to better understand it in a general, but yet thorough approach.…

    • 1306 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Abortion is the ending of pregnancy before birth and is morally wrong. An abortion results in the death of an embryo or a foetus. Abortion destroys the lives of helpless, innocent children and illegal in many countries. By aborting these unborn infants, humans are hurting themselves; they are not allowing themselves to meet these new identities and unique personalities. Abortion is very simply wrong. Everyone is raised knowing the difference between right and wrong. Murder is wrong, so why is not abortion? People argue that it is not murder if the child is unborn. Abortion is murder since the foetus being destroyed is living, breathing and moving. Why is it that if an infant is destroyed a month before the birth, there is no problem, but if killed a month after birth, this is inhumane murder? <br>It is morally and strategically foolish, because we lose the middle when we talk about reproductive rights without reference to a larger moral and spiritual dimension, and we are unwilling to use language like transgression and redemption, or right and wrong.<br>-Wolf p54<br><br>The main purpose abortions are immoral is how they are so viciously done. Everyday, innocent, harmless foetuses that could soon be laughing children are being brutally destroyed. One form of abortion is to cut the foetus into pieces with serrated forceps before being removed, piece by piece from the uterus by suction with a vacuum aspirator. Another form consists of bringing the foetus feet first into the birth canal, puncturing its skull with a sharp instrument and sucking out the brain tissue. The body parts, such as the head, are given letters, rather than refer to the parts as what they are. In my opinion this is for the doctors who cannot face the reality of what they are doing. The remains of the foetus or embryo, as the case may be, are put into everyday, plastic buckets and then sent to a dumpster where these precious bones and limbs are disposed. However, how and when an abortion takes…

    • 1822 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Søren Kierkegaard’s work - “Fear and Trembling” is very influential in Christian thinking and analyzes about Abraham’s story. In his "Fear and Trembling" Kierkegaard analyzes the negative state of spiritual life: fear, anxiety, and annoyance. Kierkegaard uses them as a decisive force in the conversion of man to Christianity. These extreme conditions are estimated by him as extremely important in a person's life only to the extent that their freedom is capable of manifesting in them. To manifest itself morally, that is, in accordance with the divine will and word, it can only be negative in relation to the psychic.…

    • 1843 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    A lot of people who are for abortion, say that it is not a viable life until it could survive outside the body. With today's technology, babies are surviving outside the womb as early as 20 some weeks. Another disturbing fact, is when a pregnant woman is murdered or dies, it is considered a double homicide. If the abortion of an unborn child is not “murder” or killing of a life, it wouldn't be considered a homicide. Many abortions now are given not by the mutilation and suction out of the woman's body, but by a pill that disintegrates the child, organs, and developed tissues and…

    • 511 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Reaction Paper

    • 574 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Being a deaf is one of the most rare and difficult situation for many people. Many people have not experience being a deaf or even have deaf related or even have a deaf friend and that what makes deaf being ignored by these normal people. Deaf people have created their own community. Living in this community makes their lives a lot easier than lives in our community. I have never ever experience living or having a friend who is a deaf, but knowing about their lives was one of my most wanted things. Watching this documentary about these two families have opened my eyes about who these people could communicate with others. These two families had the same situation with their children but one of them was negative while the other was more open mind.…

    • 574 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Abortion: Wrong Choice

    • 891 Words
    • 4 Pages

    No person has the right to take another person’s life. Many skeptics say that the Bible does not say anything specifically about abortion. That there are no references to women seeking to end pregnancies, for example, by using herbs or other chemicals, despite the fact that abortion must have been a known practice at the time Cline. At the same time, the Bible teaches that murder is a sin, and that God is the only one who can make the decision if a person should live or die. Therefore, if it is wrong to murder, it is also wrong to abort a baby. People are forced to "play God" whenever a decision is made about reproduction. From the perspective of the law, if a person commits murder, he or she is held accountable and punished. This fact definitely proves that it is wrong to take a person’s life. There is also another point to ponder; if a doctor accidently harms a fetus during a medical procedure he or she can…

    • 891 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    I think first we should of course know what an abortion is so, what is an abortion? An abortion is when a woman terminates the undeveloped embryo within the first trimester of the pregnancy. Is the embryo considered human yet or is it just a developing organism evolving into something more and even at that aren’t organisms a single life form and doesn’t life mean living. Everyone has their own personal reasons on why women should or shouldn’t have an abortion. “Abortion has been legal in every U.S. state since 1973, when the Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade (1973) that women have the right to make medical decisions about their own bodies.”[By Head, 2011pg.1] Technically while the embryo is in a woman’s body it is a part of that woman, so shouldn’t that woman have the right to decide whether or not they want something growing inside of them?…

    • 907 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Abortion is defined as the termination of a pregnancy and the expulsion of an embryo or of a fetus that is incapable of survival [4]. This definition seems to be blunt and to the point, yet the subject of abortion is quite the complex one. There are many people who feel strongly about it and fall on either side of the issue. The problem is it is not as simple as right or wrong, black and white, good and bad. There is a massive gray area when you talk about life and death, and much open to interpretation. Those who denounce abortion claim it is murder of a life, which has not yet had the chance to live. Those who do not disagree with abortion maintain that a woman has the right to choose because in the end it is her body. So where do we draw the line between murder and a medical necessity, humane and inhumane? Should every situation be treated under a blanket statement, or are there some exceptions, even in the eyes of those “pro-lifers”? Does the…

    • 846 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Reaction Paper

    • 2748 Words
    • 9 Pages

    Natural Disasters and the Philippine Stock Exchange Index: A Garch-M Analysis by Adrian P. Gallido, Ph.D. and Martites A. Khanser, D.B.A…

    • 2748 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Reaction Paper

    • 602 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Luzon was once split among Hindu-Buddhist kingdoms, Muslim principalities, and ethnoreligious tribes, who had trading connections with Borneo, Malaya, Java, Indochina, India, Okinawa, Japan and China before the Spanish established their rule. From just before the first millennium, the Tagalog and Kapampangan peoples of south and central Luzon had established several Indianized kingdoms, notably among them those of Tundok, Namayan and Maynila. The Laguna Copperplate Inscription, the first Philippine document written in 900AD, names places in and around Manila Bay as well as Medan in Indonesia.[7] These kingdoms were based on leases between village rulers (Datu) and landlords (Lakan) or Rajahs, to whom tributes and taxes were levied. These kingdoms were coastal thalassocracies based on trade with neighboring Asian political entities at that time. According to sources at the time, the trade in large native Rusun-tsukuri (literally Luzon made in Japanese:呂宋製 or 呂宋つくり) clay jars used for storing green tea and rice wine with Japan flourished in the 12th century, and local Tagalog and Kapampangan potters had marked each jar with Baybayin letters denoting the particular urn used and the locale the jars were manufactured in.[8][9] Of this flourishing trade, the Burnay jars of Ilocos are the only large clay jar manufactured in Luzon today with origins from this time.…

    • 602 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Reaction Paper

    • 8621 Words
    • 35 Pages

    PGC | Leader: Feliciano, Marion Joelle Members: Alano, Angelica Amante, Kimberly Camacho, Trinidad Campo, Crio Delos Santos, Nina Dimatulac, Christine Joy Feliciano, Marion Joelle Sagun, Agnes 1SPED2 | Article VI: Legislative Department | Contents Section 1: Legislative Department 5 Legislative Power 5 Law 5 Congress of the Philippines 5 Bicameralism 5 TYPES 5 Advantages 6 Disadvantages 6 Scope of Legislative Power of Congress 6 Classification of Powers 6 Principle on Separation of Powers 7 Principle of Check and Balances 7 Section 2-4: The Senate 8 THE SENATE 8 MEANING OF REGISTERED VOTER AND RESIDENCE 9 Section 5 – 7: The House of Representatives 10 THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 11 APPORTIONMENT OF ELECTED REPRESENATIVES 12 Section 8 & 9: Kinds of Election 12 KINDS OF ELECTION FOR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS 12 Section 10: Salaries of Congress Members 12 Section 11: Freedom of Congress Members 13 Freedom from arrest of members of Congress. 13 Freedom from being questioned for speech and debate. 13 Section 12: Disclosure of Financial and business interests, and potential conflict of interests 14 Disclosure of financial and business interests, and potential conflict of interest. 14 Section 13: Disqualification to hold any other office or employment 14 Disqualification to hold any other office or employment. 15 Section 14: Fiduciary position of members 15 Section 15: Sessions of Congress 16 Section 16: Officers of Congress 16 MEANING OF LEGISLATIVE JOURNAL 18 PURPOSE OF JOURNAL KEEPING REQUIREMENT 18 Section 17-19: Electoral Tribunal and Commission on Appointments in Congress 18 Electoral Tribunal 19 Commission on Appointments in Congress 20 Section 20: Records of Congress open to public 20 Section 21: Power of Legislative inquiry and investigation 21 Section 22: Appearance of Department Heads 22 Section 23: Power of Congress (State of War) 22 War Contemplated 22…

    • 8621 Words
    • 35 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Reaction Paper

    • 382 Words
    • 2 Pages

    After watching the film “Dangerous Minds,” I was in awe that it had given me an ‘extra’ motivation to thrive hard in finishing the course and eventually to become a well-respected educator in the near future.…

    • 382 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Reaction Paper

    • 760 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Discussing the example with the stepmother going through her stepson’s phone made me think a lot about where the line between respecting your children, but at the same time looking out for them is drawn. Growing up my parents has had very different ways to go about this line. My dad has always been very clear with rules, and what’s wrong and right and such, but he also left a lot of space for us to experience and learn from our mistakes. While my mom was more the kind who wanted to stop us from making them in the first place, which sometimes can be very overwhelming, because that where the boundaries of personal space can be blurred. I remember that I would go mental if she read my text messages, or a letter that was for me, or if she even moved an object in my room, at a very young age. And we would have fights where she would claim that it is her right as a parent to know what is going on, not matter how old I am. But now that I am older I find that I wouldn’t be mad if she did these things, I would be sad and disappointed. But in my case I don’t have anything to hide, while in the stepson’s case he is actually proving her right in her checking up him, because his actions are those of someone irresponsible, although the stepmother’s actions are of someone who is being disrespectful. That is what makes this particular situation so hard. I remember going through something similar with my little sister, because I tend to be a little too overprotected of her and I worried what she might be influenced to do, simply because I know how hard the “teen world” can be. So this one time I dropped her off at the dentist office, she asked me to hold on to her phone for her, and my curiosity got the best of me. I read through her texts and actually found a text of about her pretending to be our father saying that she was too sick to come take her test and that he would send her with a…

    • 760 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays