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**Kelsie Newman **
 * Mr.Wimmer **
 * March 21, 2012 **
 * Current Event #5 **
 * Reform **


 * Progressive group starts training pro-abortion rights religious leaders **
 * By Dan Gilgoff **

If there are conventions about preventing birth, and having other forms of birth control to prevent that abortion from happening, then thats fine. Understanding that someone has a hard life and can’t handle a kid is one thing, but when it happens multiple times, that's when it gets out of hand. People can’t make someone not do it, or make them do it. 1. Why are some religions so strict, and have such strong morals? 2. Everyone should be able to make their own decisions, why can't they get that? 3. Why doesn’t the White house think its a good idea to launch the institution? 4. Why aren’t some people educated on birth control and protected sex?
 * Summary: ** An advocacy group in Washington is speaking out to religious leaders to speak out to people on hot topics such as abortion. A liberal beltway group is leaning the other way and saying that there shouldn’t be an anti-choice. Sally Steenland, the director of the faith initiative, says that religion does not support a woman's personal decision about the fact that if she is ready to be a mother or not. They will provide for the appropriate “birth control” so things like abortion won’t happen. They will also have advocates talking to people about women's reproductive health. The Faith and Reproductive Justice Leader Institute has been trying to get people to work to reclaim religion and values of conservation, meaning to save a life that they made and not abort it. Steenland has been trying to make a launch for the institution for years but the White house doesn’t agree and makes it suspended.
 * Evaluation: **Abortion is something that people deal with in their everyday lives. But controlling someone's rights to do that because of a religion is unreal, lets face it. People say that just because a person is sexually active; doesn’t mean they're ready to have a baby. Today’s society we are all about the hot topic, and want to riot on what ever we can find. A lot of people have strong morals, and thats how they were raised. They think abortion is totally whack, and would never do it. But that doesn’t give anyone the right to restrict that from someone if they think that the baby won't have a good life. People make mistakes, and other people have to realize that.
 * Relevance:** Americans for centuries have been getting educated on sex, and trying to solve the problem of so many unwanted pregnancies. Margaret Sanger, birth control activist, has been educating sex to women and teens all over the United States; years ago.. She established Planned Parenthood, a place to go to get on birth control. Many teens don’t realize that there is other options rather than abortion. If they were protected in the first place, then that wouldn’t happen. Americans need to realize that religion may have morals and things to follow, but accidents happen and whether they want to choose to get rid of something, then its their choice.
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 * Work Cited: **
 * "Progressive group starts training pro-abortion rights religious leaders – CNN Belief Blog - CNN.com Blogs."CNN Belief Blog - CNN.com Blogs. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Mar. 2012. < <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">__http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/21/progressive-group-starts-training-pro-abortion-rights-religious-leaders/>.__ **


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