Election Project Roles/Issues Worksheet

Name:

Elijah Felicien

Candidate Name:

Donald Trump

Campaign Role:

Social

Issue: Abortion
What does your candidates website say?
Link:

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF8&safe=active&ssui=on#q=donald%20trump%20stance%20on
%20abortion&safe=active&ssui=on&eob=m.0cqt90//short

Quotes:

The primary responsibility of the federal government is to protect the rights of its
citizens. Life is the most fundamental right. The federal government should not
diminish this right by denying its protection. I am opposed to abortion except for
rape, incest and life of the mother. I oppose the use of government funds to pay for
abortions.
Trump also wrote: Public funding of abortion providers is an insult to people of
conscience at the least and an affront to good governance at best.

Notes:
He would allow abortions to occur if pregnancy was caused by, rape, incest
and or complications due to mother or child.
He doesnt want the federal government to pay for the abortions.
It isnt fair for people to pay taxes to the government when young mothers are
unwise with their decision to proceed in mating when they are unfit to bring a child into
this world, or when they know it can risk their lives.
Summary:
Well Donald J Trump is pro-life if the pregnancy was caused by incest, rape and or
complications due to the mother or child. He doesnt want to use taxpayer money to send to
the government to take care of abortions. He doesnt want abortions being used as a plan b,
so young mothers wont have to worry about condoms or birthcontrol, but thats not the case.

What does an outside source say that SUPPORTS your candidates position?

Link:

http://abortion.procon.org/

Quotes:

A 2002 peer-reviewed study published by the Southern Medical Journal of more

than 173,000 American women found that women who aborted were 154% more
likely to commit suicide than women who carried to term. [26] A 1996 study
published in the British Medical Journal reported that the mean annual suicide rate
amongst women who had an abortion was 34.7 per 100,000, compared with a
mean rate of 11.3 per 100,000 in the general population of women.

Notes:
According to the Southern Medical Journal, more than 173,000 American
women that had an abortion were 154% to commit suicide. Imagine the regret and the
depression beating on you at once thats how it feels. We dont need this for the U.S
do we?
The Guttmacher Institute reported that half of all women having abortions every
year have had at least one previous abortion, [13] while 8.5% of abortions reported to
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2010 were undergone by women
who had three or more previous abortions. [83] This suggests that many women are
using abortion as a contraceptive method. [78] Freakonomics co-author Steven Levitt,
PhD, wrote that after abortion was legalized, "Conceptions rose by nearly 30 percent,
but births actually fell by 6 percent, indicating that many women were using abortion
as a method of birth control, a crude and drastic sort of insurance policy."[38]

Summary:
We dont need any more deaths in the U.S, do we? Mothers killing themselves because of
their bad decision will be an option there are other alternatives of having a baby, like adoption,
and giving it too trusted family, and or loved ones. Having abortion available could be bad we
dont need young irresponsible mothers having sex and using abortion as a plan b. No we
dont, we need to illegalize abortion everywhere so death rates wont rise up because
abortions caused by untrained physicians could cause death or ill to mother.

What does an outside source say that OPPOSES your candidates position?
Link:

http://abortion.procon.org/

Quotes:

Access to legal, professionally-performed abortions reduces maternal injury and

death caused by unsafe, illegal abortions.
A 2012 study in Obstetrics & Gynecology found a woman's risk of dying from
having an abortion is 0.6 in 100,000, while the risk of dying from giving birth is
around 14 times higher (8.8 in 100,000). The study also found that "pregnancyrelated complications were more common with childbirth than with abortion.

Notes:
Not well enough trained doctors would probably go through with the procedure
in which can lead to, death, sickness, and being unable to reproduce.
Philosopher Peter Singer, MA, Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University,
defended abortion as a way to curb overpopulation.[137] The United Nations
estimated that the world's population will increase to 9.3 billion by 2050, which would
be "the equivalent of adding another India and China to the world," according to the
Los Angeles Times.
Summary:
Well its obvious that we should allow abortion, we can save young mothers from going to an
untrained physician that could damage the mother, physically and emotionally. Mothers may
get scared because parents will be mad or disappointed, or they arent physically or
emotionally ready to carry out the task of being a mother. Abortion should be Legal
everywhere to stop young mothers going out of their way to make sure that they wont
become pregnant.