Should there be tighter rules on abortion, in certain aspects of it, definitely, in other's no.
If there is a risk to the mother, or the foetus itself, then yes obviously abortion is the only way.
Another reason for abortion is if the foetus has a strong possibility of being disabled, and whether the mother feels she can handle bringing up a child with disabilities, or whether the quality of life will be good enough, or if you already have other children whether it would fair on them.
Another reason might be because the mother became pregnant through rape.
However, they are the only reasons I personally would ever consider getting an abortion.
When it comes to women getting abortions because they've had a one night stand, or just not careful enough with her partner, and the foetus is healthy, then no, I don't believe they should be given an abortion.
Not one person on this planet asked to be born. Therefore if you're not careful enough, you'll have to grow up and face the consequences, which I believe majority of people do!
A girl I went to school with fell pregnant at the age of 17, but knew she would not be able to bring up a child in the life she was living. Did she have an abortion? No, she gave her daughter up for adoption.
Not only did she, in my view at least, give a couple something so precious in giving them a baby, but she also gave her daughter the chance to have a safe upbringing, one filled with happiness, joy, and safety.
I know for a fact she thinks about her every day, yet she never regrets a single minute of her adoption, yes it was hard, but she knows that her daughter is having the best out of life, one she could never have given her, and has made two people extremely happy.
So for me abortion is a matter of life and death, not because I wasn't careful enough.
Friday, 27 December 2013
Thursday, 19 December 2013
Opinion Polls
I hate opinion polls, for me they are fleeting moments of what people think, and not only that, they are bloody confusing!
Today's opinion poll (YouGov/Sun poll) says: Govt's approval rating Con 34, Lab 38, LD 10, UKIP 11.
Another poll they have produced is: Which of these would make the best Prime Minister:
David Cameron 35, Ed Miliband 20, Nick Clegg 5, and Don't Know 39
How can Labour beat the government, but Ed Miliband can't beat David Cameron? Surely he must be leading Labour in the right direction for them to win opinion poll after opinion poll? Or am I missing something?
To me it just looks like we are heading to another hung parliament for 2015, and I'm not too sure who will have the majority to form another coalition government, are you?
Today's opinion poll (YouGov/Sun poll) says: Govt's approval rating Con 34, Lab 38, LD 10, UKIP 11.
Another poll they have produced is: Which of these would make the best Prime Minister:
David Cameron 35, Ed Miliband 20, Nick Clegg 5, and Don't Know 39
How can Labour beat the government, but Ed Miliband can't beat David Cameron? Surely he must be leading Labour in the right direction for them to win opinion poll after opinion poll? Or am I missing something?
To me it just looks like we are heading to another hung parliament for 2015, and I'm not too sure who will have the majority to form another coalition government, are you?
Food Banks
It's a terrible thing when the 7th richest country in the world's people have to rely on food banks.
But does ALL the blame lay on the shoulders of the government, or should the people take some of the blame too?
Personally, I think it's 50/50.
Yes, obviously government has a lot to do with the reason why people need food banks, however people also need to start financing their money better.
I half blame credit cards. People seem to think the money on a credit card is theirs, when in actual fact it's the banks.
Credit Cards lead you into a false sense of security, you think you've paid for the items, when in actual fact, your bank has paid for the items, and they want their money back.
I'm sure some people are quite shocked at how high their credit card bill is, then feel the need to use loan sharks such as Wonga, and unless you can pay off the loan sharks in one full swoop, you'll never get out of debt.
I've known two people to use loan sharks. They both only borrowed £600, but after paying off £400 worth of their owed amount, ended up owning over £1000 due the high % of the APR.
I also blame people wanting their kids to have everything, instead of buying within their means. When I was growing up, my parents couldn't afford most toys, but I never felt like I was missing out on anything, in fact even if my parents were panicking about the financial situation, they never let us know about it, nor did make out we were poor, or couldn't afford stuff.
So why can't other parents do the same?
Once your in debt with a loan shark, theirs no going back. The debt mounts up tremendously quick, and before you know it you need food banks so you can pay off as much as possible each month, and let's not forget it was a Labour government who introduced food banks.
Credit cards should be given to people who can pay it off, and to be honest, people who can pay off credit cards mostly won't need to use one.
Loan sharks should either be made illegal, or their % of APR should capped at a reasonable %.
Also, people should learn to spend within their means, I know I do. If I can't afford, I won't buy, I'll save up for it, or wait until the price has dropped a little and usually when that happens there's a nice discount on top.
But does ALL the blame lay on the shoulders of the government, or should the people take some of the blame too?
Personally, I think it's 50/50.
Yes, obviously government has a lot to do with the reason why people need food banks, however people also need to start financing their money better.
I half blame credit cards. People seem to think the money on a credit card is theirs, when in actual fact it's the banks.
Credit Cards lead you into a false sense of security, you think you've paid for the items, when in actual fact, your bank has paid for the items, and they want their money back.
I'm sure some people are quite shocked at how high their credit card bill is, then feel the need to use loan sharks such as Wonga, and unless you can pay off the loan sharks in one full swoop, you'll never get out of debt.
I've known two people to use loan sharks. They both only borrowed £600, but after paying off £400 worth of their owed amount, ended up owning over £1000 due the high % of the APR.
I also blame people wanting their kids to have everything, instead of buying within their means. When I was growing up, my parents couldn't afford most toys, but I never felt like I was missing out on anything, in fact even if my parents were panicking about the financial situation, they never let us know about it, nor did make out we were poor, or couldn't afford stuff.
So why can't other parents do the same?
Once your in debt with a loan shark, theirs no going back. The debt mounts up tremendously quick, and before you know it you need food banks so you can pay off as much as possible each month, and let's not forget it was a Labour government who introduced food banks.
Credit cards should be given to people who can pay it off, and to be honest, people who can pay off credit cards mostly won't need to use one.
Loan sharks should either be made illegal, or their % of APR should capped at a reasonable %.
Also, people should learn to spend within their means, I know I do. If I can't afford, I won't buy, I'll save up for it, or wait until the price has dropped a little and usually when that happens there's a nice discount on top.
Wednesday, 18 December 2013
Third Runway is a good idea
I might be slightly biased to the idea of a third runway as that's where the company I work for get's majority of it's work.
I can not actually see anything bad in having the third runway.
Firstly, like I just pointed out, it will create more work, and more jobs. Which, in our current climate, will be brilliant for people.
Secondly, obviously people will have to move, therefore it will create social housing, councils will be forced to build more houses, and another good thing about that is, more work!
More social housing, more work is exactly what the left are screaming out for, not only that, it should hopefully make delays of flights a little less frequent.
For the people who will have to move, not only will they get a nice new house, but they will get paid for losing their house.
All I can personally see is a win-win situation.
I can not actually see anything bad in having the third runway.
Firstly, like I just pointed out, it will create more work, and more jobs. Which, in our current climate, will be brilliant for people.
Secondly, obviously people will have to move, therefore it will create social housing, councils will be forced to build more houses, and another good thing about that is, more work!
More social housing, more work is exactly what the left are screaming out for, not only that, it should hopefully make delays of flights a little less frequent.
For the people who will have to move, not only will they get a nice new house, but they will get paid for losing their house.
All I can personally see is a win-win situation.
Thursday, 12 December 2013
I'm completely torn on legalising Cannabis
There are brilliant points for and against legalising Cannabis.
However, I am completely town because of one fact.
Back in 2006, I was arriving at school and I could see a bunch of my friends crying. Obviously I went up and asked if they were OK, and was told that our friend had been killed by being hit by a car.
The driver of the car had smoked Cannabis, not a heavy amount, probably just a few drags of someone else's spliff, got in his car, and killed my friend, he was only 16.
He had his whole life ahead of him, he was funny, he was lovely, and we all still miss him to this day.
The problems with legalising it is, for me, as follows:
However, I am completely town because of one fact.
Back in 2006, I was arriving at school and I could see a bunch of my friends crying. Obviously I went up and asked if they were OK, and was told that our friend had been killed by being hit by a car.
The driver of the car had smoked Cannabis, not a heavy amount, probably just a few drags of someone else's spliff, got in his car, and killed my friend, he was only 16.
He had his whole life ahead of him, he was funny, he was lovely, and we all still miss him to this day.
The problems with legalising it is, for me, as follows:
- After the initial high wears off, some people start to look for something stronger
- If it is legalised, will there be laws surrounding it like there is for alcohol?
- Will you be able to smoke it during working hours in the smoking areas?
- Will you be allowed it 24 hours before you work heavy machinery?
- How will it be sold? Chemist? Along side normal cigarettes?
- Where will the government purchase it from? Or will they be growing their own?
- Can pilots, train drivers, taxi drivers, bus drivers, lorry drivers, and driving instructors smoke it before they take control of their vehicles?
- Will you be allowed to smoke it around children?
Not sure many people have been thinking of these other issues that come with it.
For children to be breathing is normal cigarette smoke is bad enough, but to add another element to the dangers of second smoke to it as well, for me, seems worse.
Wednesday, 4 December 2013
Why supporting whistle blowers is a dangerous game
Although whistle blowers probably have the right intention, their actions are extremely dangerous and wrong.
They are wrong for our men and women in the armed forces.
Edward Snowden knew, even before he had given the secret information away, that his career and freedom would be over with, so surely he knew he was putting his fellow men and women who were in the American Armed Forces at risk too?
Just because you don't agree with the measures that your government is going to take, does it give you right to put others at risk with their lives?
The left seem to be in favour of these whistle blowers. Owen Jones recently said at an anit-war conference we should "Salute them because they lift the veil in Iraq and elsewhere, and stripped the veil the secrecy on Western power."
Now, I understand we may not agree with what our government plans are, but there different measures of doing this, and I think not so long ago, our MP's proved this by voting against intervention in Syria.
I was extremely proud of every MP, no matter what side of the house they sat, who voted against, a democratic way of showing the leadership what the people really want.
Whistle blowers are a danger not just to themselves, but to their colleagues, who they unfairly put in the firing line, allowing the extremist this information does not help anybodies cause, least of all our own.
If he really, really disagreed with the measures that the American government were taking I'm pretty sure Edward Snowden could have thought of better ways than doing it, definitely more democratically at least.
Allowing a newspaper such as The Guardian to print such top secret plans is a disgrace to himself and nobody else.
People need to start thinking of the consequences before they action. He had obviously thought of the consequences against himself, but not for his fellow country men. What if the plans he had leaked had gotten some of them killed? How would he have felt? How would Owen Jones have felt if these, also innocent, people had died because of one man's actions.
If Tony Blair is a sham, then surely that would have made Edward Snowden one as well?
Maybe the leftwing need to get off their high horse, yes the war in Iraq and Afghanistan I believe was wrong, and I'm glad that the MP's voted against intervention because it seems to have had a domino affect (so much the small island no one pays attention to Mr Putin).
However, unlike the Iraq and Afghanistan intervention, we weren't told a bunch of lies about the reasonings to go in their, we had the truth told to us, and we decided what was best.
I do believe majority of these whistle blowers have the best of intentions, but their actions have dire consequences outside their lives, and maybe they should take their heads out of the clouds, and start thinking of others within their own country as well as other countries around the world.
I hope other wanna be whistle blowers think it thoroughly through before leaking such information, not only ending their own freedom, but possibly that of the others around them too, maybe one day someones life which to me makes them just as extreme and the Islamist extremist their colleagues are fighting on a daily basis.
They are wrong for our men and women in the armed forces.
Edward Snowden knew, even before he had given the secret information away, that his career and freedom would be over with, so surely he knew he was putting his fellow men and women who were in the American Armed Forces at risk too?
Just because you don't agree with the measures that your government is going to take, does it give you right to put others at risk with their lives?
The left seem to be in favour of these whistle blowers. Owen Jones recently said at an anit-war conference we should "Salute them because they lift the veil in Iraq and elsewhere, and stripped the veil the secrecy on Western power."
Now, I understand we may not agree with what our government plans are, but there different measures of doing this, and I think not so long ago, our MP's proved this by voting against intervention in Syria.
I was extremely proud of every MP, no matter what side of the house they sat, who voted against, a democratic way of showing the leadership what the people really want.
Whistle blowers are a danger not just to themselves, but to their colleagues, who they unfairly put in the firing line, allowing the extremist this information does not help anybodies cause, least of all our own.
If he really, really disagreed with the measures that the American government were taking I'm pretty sure Edward Snowden could have thought of better ways than doing it, definitely more democratically at least.
Allowing a newspaper such as The Guardian to print such top secret plans is a disgrace to himself and nobody else.
People need to start thinking of the consequences before they action. He had obviously thought of the consequences against himself, but not for his fellow country men. What if the plans he had leaked had gotten some of them killed? How would he have felt? How would Owen Jones have felt if these, also innocent, people had died because of one man's actions.
If Tony Blair is a sham, then surely that would have made Edward Snowden one as well?
Maybe the leftwing need to get off their high horse, yes the war in Iraq and Afghanistan I believe was wrong, and I'm glad that the MP's voted against intervention because it seems to have had a domino affect (so much the small island no one pays attention to Mr Putin).
However, unlike the Iraq and Afghanistan intervention, we weren't told a bunch of lies about the reasonings to go in their, we had the truth told to us, and we decided what was best.
I do believe majority of these whistle blowers have the best of intentions, but their actions have dire consequences outside their lives, and maybe they should take their heads out of the clouds, and start thinking of others within their own country as well as other countries around the world.
I hope other wanna be whistle blowers think it thoroughly through before leaking such information, not only ending their own freedom, but possibly that of the others around them too, maybe one day someones life which to me makes them just as extreme and the Islamist extremist their colleagues are fighting on a daily basis.
Monday, 2 December 2013
Tom Daley's 'Coming Out'
I'm glad that Tom Daley is a happy relationship, whether it be with a man or a woman.
I've seen a few homophobic tweets towards Tom Daley, after his video, but I'm not sure why they feel the need to be so nasty.
Firstly, during the 2012 Olympics I bet they watched his diving with baited breath and could't have cared less whether he was straight or gay, and I bet they watched Clare Balding present the swimming events without giving it a second thought that she is in a relationship with another woman.
Why does being gay have still such a bad stigma?
My idol is Freddie Mercury, I absolutely adore everything that man has done. For me Freddie Mercury is a once in a lifetime genius, and I'm only sad that I was so young when he passed away.
Does him being bisexual bother me? No, couldn't care less, as long as he was happy.
Another hero of mine K.D Lang, another fantastic musician.
Does her being a lesbian bother me? Nope, once again, couldn't give a damn, just as long as she's happy.
Does Tom Daley being gay bother me? No, because all I care about is him getting medals for Team GB, and first and foremost, being happy.
Why would anyone want to take away someones right to live a happy life? Who has that right to make that decision?
No one, therefore, whether you're straight, gay, bisexual, or transgender I just hope you are happy.
I've seen a few homophobic tweets towards Tom Daley, after his video, but I'm not sure why they feel the need to be so nasty.
Firstly, during the 2012 Olympics I bet they watched his diving with baited breath and could't have cared less whether he was straight or gay, and I bet they watched Clare Balding present the swimming events without giving it a second thought that she is in a relationship with another woman.
Why does being gay have still such a bad stigma?
My idol is Freddie Mercury, I absolutely adore everything that man has done. For me Freddie Mercury is a once in a lifetime genius, and I'm only sad that I was so young when he passed away.
Does him being bisexual bother me? No, couldn't care less, as long as he was happy.
Another hero of mine K.D Lang, another fantastic musician.
Does her being a lesbian bother me? Nope, once again, couldn't give a damn, just as long as she's happy.
Does Tom Daley being gay bother me? No, because all I care about is him getting medals for Team GB, and first and foremost, being happy.
Why would anyone want to take away someones right to live a happy life? Who has that right to make that decision?
No one, therefore, whether you're straight, gay, bisexual, or transgender I just hope you are happy.
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