Leave Planned Parenthood Alone

    Planned Parenthood has always been a rival to Conservatives. This is because Planned Parenthood offers Abortion procedures, and to Conservatives, that is simply an abomination and unacceptable. Although, one wonders whether Conservatives know that Planned Parenthood is a health care provider that offers much more, for they offer birth control, Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) help and knowledge on the various diseases, knowledge on a variety of women's health issues (Cervical Cancer, Menstruation, etc), and much more. Why would a group of people, especially women who belong to this group, want to bring down an organization that cares for the welfare of women? I hope this doesn't happen, for I believe Planned Parenthood is working to help women. 

    Planned Parenthood has faced being shut down and defunded by Conservatives within the last couple of months, for they want to shut down PP and invest in other women's clinics that don't perform abortions. I thought this fight was finished after Roe vs. Wade. The country and it's people have already spoken on the abortion issue, for we voted that women have the right to get rid of an unwanted pregnancy. Also, this organization has done such a great service to women and girls in  need. For goodness sake, they offer knowledge on abstinence. They aren't a clinic purely to get rid of unwanted pregnancies, they are a clinic that firstly helps women to know how to prevent them. Nonetheless, the law is set, and it states that abortions are legal. That should be enough for the conservatives to know that they do not have the right to defund/shutdown an organization purely because it performs legal procedures that help women. 

    All in all, I believe in Planned Parenthood, and it's practices that support women's health and right's. This shouldn't still be a debatable issue, for it was settled decades ago. A women's body is her own, and PP has supported this stance. Planned Parenthood has been following the law, so why don't the Conservatives? To all of the Conservatives, if you want to come after an organization, find a legitimate and illegal issue tied to said corporation. Stop being children and going after health care provider that performs procedures that don't "sit right" with you. Exactly.

RE: Toes on the Nose, Eye on the Prize: Daylight Saving Time; Is It Really Saving Anything?

According to my fellow Colleagues blog, Toes on the Nose, Eye on the Prize, they write that Daylight Savings time isn't really saving anybody anything, for it's only still around for the ever important economy. As someone who doesn't really pay attention to it due to modern phones automatically adapting to time changes, this article got me thinking, and I realized that I experience a harder time sleeping during this time of the year, so I absolutely agree with their view. Thankfully due to electricity, and our accessibility to light, we shouldn't put our bodies through unhealthy and unnecessary changes.

In their post, they write that other states, Arizona and Hawaii, have already abolished Daylight Savings Time, so why haven't we? I understand that it's hard to change something that has been apart of society for decades of years, but we, the United States citizens and Government, need to adapt to the times. Arizona and Hawaii have already realized and come to terms with this unneeded change due to modern advancements, and it's time everyone follows. In the post it states, "Farmers have always been staunch opponents of the daylight saving time and oddly they are the group of people that most believe we adopted the DST for." This is an interesting point because I could understand if the modern day farmers of the 21st century have adapted to this change, for it would be hard going backwards, but they haven't. In fact, they oppose it, and these farmers are growing and producing our food. In my opinion, I think we should do anything that would make these people's lives easier. Especially a mundane time change that many people don't even pay attention to nor do they know the reason for it.

All in all, I agree with my colleagues points and opinions. Daylight Savings Time is just another pre-historic custom that American's haven't tossed out yet. I'm sure that life will go one just as it has for centuries if we don't get that extra hour of sleep.