March 2, 2010
State Power vs. Women’s Rights Part I. Introduction In 1973, the Supreme Court handed down the decision in Roe v. Wade which recognized women’s right to obtain an abortion. However, many pregnant women today still face a multitude of barriers preventing them from exercising that right. One of the most detrimental and decisive of these […]
November 4, 2009
1) Beal v. Doe, 432 U.S. 438 (1977) In this Supreme Court case, the issue at hand is whether or not Title XIX of the Social Security Act requires States that are participants of the Medicaid program to fund the costs of nontherapeutic abortions. Justice Powell delivered the opinion of the Court, holding that Title […]
October 7, 2009
The methods of research in political science include reading from primary and secondary sources on theories and potential applications of theories. It also includes reading cases that deal with the political issues that are being examined. Being a field that deals heavily with precedents (for example, when a case gets decided upon), it will be […]
September 9, 2009
Falling under the category of Marxist Feminism, the purpose of my study is to examine the relationship between capitalism and reproduction. In Marxist theory, workers are ruled by the objects that they produce; as the value of his produce goes up, the value of the worker invariably goes down. Marx refers to this relationship as […]
