Survey Questions

ABORTION

• What do you know about abortion?
  

• Is it legal in every state?

• What age requirements should there be?

• First of all, should abortion be allowed?

• Should the patient be forced to see the sonogram of their baby?

• Should parents of a pregnant minor be notified by the law?
  

• Should the parent of the pregnant woman wanting to have an abortion have the last say in the abortion decision?

• How much does an abortion cost? Or, how much do you think it costs?

• Should abortion be charged as murder?

• What is required to have an abortion in California?

• What rights should women have over their bodies?

• What trimester (months) do you think it would be okay to have an abortion?
  

• All in all, do you think the United States should rethink the abortion requirements?
  

Contention with Abortion - 3rd

The contention of abortion lies in the three questions we will ask our peers in our interviews:

• First of all, should abortion be allowed?
  
• Should the patient be forced to see the sonogram of their baby?
• Should parents be notified by law about their child's abortion?

People will have their own arguments according their own thoughts and feeling on the issue of abortion. Also, some people could have past experiences or other relations to the abortion topic. This could cause harsh or offensive feelings towards the issue, which we would like to avoid because it does cause some friction, but could very well happen, and we will try to be prepared to confront those people and make sure we don't offend them in any way. We think people will view abortion from all different points. It's a controversial topic in many ways and there could be many solutions to the different arguments and problems people might have with abortions.

Writing the Treatment - 2nd

I thought the treatment was going to be difficult to write at first, but it turned out to be a pretty easy task. It actually helped Jake and I because it made us really think about our topic (abortion) and how we will carry out the presentation process. We were able to really plan out and organize our project and how we will carry out our plans for the interviewing process and such. We figured out what the three main questions we want to ask in our interviews: should abrotion be allowed? should the patient be forced to see the sonogram of their baby before the abortion is done? Do the parents have to be notified of their child's abortion? We also made it clear what our main objective was, which was to do thorough research and gain as much opinion from our peers as possible, while being as unbiased as we possibly can. We want to give as much information to the people through statistics and interviews. We want to make the audience of our presentation to think and ponder about what their own opinion of abortion is.

Research on Abortion

Over the weekend, I did some research on abortion. First of all, abortion is a medical operation to end a pregnancy so that the baby is not born alive. Medically speaking, it is the expulsion of the products of conception before the embryo or fetus is viable. In fact, any interruption of human pregnancy purposely done prior to the 28th week is known as an abortion.

Here are some statistics: From 1973- 1996 the abortion rate has risen from 744,600 to 1,400,000. Its highest yearly rate in that range of time is when it reached 1,608,600 in 1990. As you can see from these plain facts, abortion does take a toll on us. Imagine if there weren’t any abortions in those years, and think about how many babies could have been born, could have lived, and could have grown. Think how much larger the population would be. All those abortions in those past years also affect today’s time because our population today would also be much greater if all those many people weren’t aborted.

To find our more about my topic, I will continue to search the internet for information. Also, when I get a video camera, I will be able to interview some of our peers and ask them for their views on abortion. It’d be interesting to see the different variety of replies I’ll get and how much people are interested in the topic.

Difficulties with Abortion

The difficulties we might have with abortion might include the fact that it's a very controversial issue. People might not feel comfortable about speaking about the issue or it could be offensive to some people if they have past experiences or other relations with the topic. We as the interviewers don't know the people's pasts or how they feel about the topic. We also have to approach the topic as unbiased as possible. Yes, it's a big issue and we have strong feelings about it as well as others. We might not agree with what other people say; in fact, we might totally disagree with them, but we won't let that affect our project. We will present any and all information that we gather, no matter what point of view it's from.

Some frustrations could be that it'll be hard to start out our research. I think it will be difficult to get organized and get everything planned out and finally carry out the plan to get the work done. Also, since both my partner and I don't have a video camera, we'll need to somehow get one to use. It'll be especially hard to divide the work equally between me and my partner as well.

Abortion - 1st

Jake is my parner. Our topic is Abortion. We will research the controversy on whether or not abortion should be allowed, and whether or not parents should know if their child is having an abortion. First of all, we will find some background information on the issue of abortion from the internet. Then we will think of some interview questions and move into some interaction with the people around us. We will interview both kids and parents about the issue. This issue is very controverisal, but we will try our hardest to get everyone's input and try to aproach the issue from all the different point of views people may have. We will try not to be biased throughout our project and will try to gather as much information and statistics from our surveys as possible. We will also create a movie of us interviewing our peers. We will then create conclusions about the information we receive from the surveys.s