The Political Ramblings of a Latina

A commentary blog post from the HuffPost titled, Hey, Trump—Here Are All The Things Birth Control Does was posted October 6, 2017, by HuffPost reporter, Catherine Pearson. The blog post was published in response to the Trump Administration announcing its intention to roll back the Affordable Care Act provision that has allowed women access to birth control by requiring most employers to include birth control coverage in their health insurance plans. In announcing their decision, the administration argued that the birth control coverage requirement created a “substantial burden” on employers’ free exercise of religion that is protected by the U.S. Constitution. For this reason, the author goes on to argue that birth control is in many ways health care for women and how it has also helped lower the abortion rate since 1973 when Roe v. Wade was passed. Pearson wrote this blog post to inform Trump’s Administration and those who are in favor of rolling back the birth control mandate, abou...

A Op-Ed Article of the Los Angeles Times titled, Of course we need to talk about gun violence in America. The question is how to do it effectively was posted on October 6, 2017. This Opinion article was published in response to the Las Vegas massacre that happened this past Sunday on October 1st. The author, Adam Winkler argues that instead of focusing on when to discuss gun violence in American we should be focusing on how to reduce the harm provoked by gun violence and discussing what can be done to lower the number of incidents inflicted by guns. Winkler makes the argument that we, the American people make the mistake of devoting excessive attention to mass shootings and that mass shooting's an extremely hard problem to stop especially when we live in a country with more than 300 million guns and that instead of focusing on mass murders, we need to address everyday gun violence in order to make the laws work. The intended audience is anyone that wants a stricter gun control po...