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Banner: = **Every American citizen born or naturalized in America willl have an equal opportunity and the right to reach their full potential.** =

By: Shea Stiebler, Sarah Mikac, Stacy Gibson, Bobby Brunner, Taylor Neely
VISION Currently in our American Society, we believe that citizens are being denied Natural Rights based purely on differences, and our limited resources have been used innificantly. In our ideal American society, every American citizen born or naturalized in America willl have an equal opportunity and the right to reach their full potential. This will create a strong American society filled with citizens who are passionate about what they do and who work hard to get there. Because of this, we are Pro Life, against racial profiling and against undocumented workers.

ARGUMENTS Due the beliefs in our ideal society we are Pro Life, against racial profiling, and against undocumented workers. We are Pro Life because we believe that every American has natural rights and that those rights should belong to the Fetus as well and shouldn't be taken away from them. We are against racial profiling because in our ideal society we strive for an equal society allowing those who work hard to reach their full potential. Lastly, we are against undocumented workers because we feel that they are taking away the natural rights that belong to American citizens by using limited resources and jobs in our country.
 * •defend and clarify each argument with evidence from the history timeline, the current issue from the One-Minute Debate Topics AND a book read in literature circles. **


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__Argument 1:__ //Pro life//

Every American citizen is born with natural rights and these rights should also be applied to the fetus. Being Pro Life we believe in the right to privacy and that the government should stay out of personal rights, until those rights begin to interfere with the safety of another. For example, having an abortion takes away the fetus' right to life as well as their right to reach their full potential, so in this situation, the government has the right to intervene because a citizens personal rights interfere with the rights of another- the rights of the fetus. Catt P.'s Timeline Topic talked about Roe vs. Wade, which was a case in 1973 that argued whether a woman has a constitutional right to an abortion. Wade was the defendant in this case and was strongly against abortions; in our ideal society we side with Wade, and agree with his viewpoint that abortions are not only wrong, but are murder. Also, on Jill's timeline topic question she wrote that "[the heartbeat legislation would allow a] woman to get an abortion within the first eight weeks of pregnancy, so if they got an abortion, the fetus would feel no pain", but we feel that it should not matter whether a heartbeat is detected or not because it is still a child that will eventually obtain a heartbeat, unless they are aborted; unborn children grow in the womb everyday. Mary Spaulding Balch, a State Legislative Director of the National Right to Life, discussed the many bodily functions that are developed during the beginning weeks of pregnancy like brain waves in the 6th week, a heartbeat less than three weeks in, and pain receptors that show up during weeks 4 and 5. When a needle injects an unborn baby, stress hormones are released just as when adults feel pain, so doctors can tell if the fetus is felling pain or not. Finally, in the book __Warriors Don't Cry__ by Melba Patillo Beals, a group of black children integrate a high school for the first time ever, and the black children are not treated respectfully by the white adults with children going to the school. Therefore, the government had to call on AirForce one solders to walk them through their halls. The way the blacks were treated by whites can compare to the way a fetus is treated(when referring to an abortion). The constitution states that any human shall be treated equally, however the blacks in this time period were not treated the same as whites, and the fetus' today are not treated the same way a grown human is. How is there a difference between the two? They both are humans and therefore should be treated equally as our constitution states; a human is a human, and all humans should be given the same equal rights as others.

__Argument 2:__ //Racial Profiling//

In our American society, we will enforce fair treatment of all races, genders, religions, and nationalities, so that minority groups and whites will feel equal, with neither the whites nor the minorities receiving special treatment, or lack of, due to their race. One place where this idea will be in effect is in Collages starting from the admittance of the students and continuing on until they graduate; the students will be admitted based on their scholastic achievement rather than the fact that they may be considered a minority or in white’s cases, a majority. According to Bobby Bruner, this idea is necessary because of cases like Bakke v. University of California, where a student named Allen Bakke was denied the right to attend a collage since the only available spots left were those being set aside for people considered a minority. According to the 14th amendment, by not allowing Bakke entrance into the collage, even though his MACT and GPA overpassed most of the people accepted who fall into the minority admittance category, he was not receiving equal protection under the law. Also, according to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, “discrimination against blacks and women, including racial segregation” is outlawed in the United States. Based on what is being defined in this act, Collages should not be allowed to show racial preferences to minority groups by setting aside spots strictly meant for people considered a minority. Finally, racial discrimination can further be seen in the book //The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,// by Sherman Alexie, since a young Indian boy named Junior is “quickly judged and stereotyped when he [arrived] as his new school because of the long-term bias against Indians”; this racial difference immediately set him apart from all the other students in the school. In our American Society, we will make sure to end racial bias in schools, including collage admittance resumes, and will turn our focus onto to any child, whether black, Mexican, or Indian, who has the drive and desire to learn and to work hard at what they do.

__Argument 3:__ //Undocumented workers// Undocumented workers definitely do not have the same rights as American citizens, seeing that they are in this country illegally and probably cannot communicate with more than half of the U.S. (legal) population. Surprisingly undocumented workers have many of the same rights that American citizens possess, with a few exceptions. “While illegal aliens do not enjoy all of the rights granted to citizens by the Constitution, specifically the rights to vote or possess firearms, these rights can also be denied to U.S. citizens convicted of felonies. In final analysis, the courts have ruled that, while they are within the borders of the United States, illegal aliens are granted the same fundamental, undeniable constitutional rights granted to all Americans" (Robert Longley). I find this unfair, they aren’t considered U.S. citizens’, they are basically cheating in life, they should have to go through the proper routine to get the proper papers. We are very hypocritical, we don’t want them in our country yet we basically depend on their cheap labor and cheap wages to get those jobs we don’t want to do, done. “Some sectors are more dependent than others. According to a 2009 study by the Pew Hispanic Center, 40% of the nation's brickmasons, 37% of drywall installers, 28% of dishwashers, 27% of maids and housekeepers, and 21% of parking-lot attendants are undocumented. In California, those percentages are likely to be higher. A 2006 survey by the U.S. Department of Labor estimates that a majority of California's farmworkers have no papers.(Gregory Rodrigues.” In the book // The Bean Trees // by Barbara Kingslover, an auto repair shop houses illegal immigrants whome work in the city of which the place isAAAAAA We can’t seem to make up our minds on how we view undocumented workers, they help get the job done, but at the same time they are illegal.

"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity." -(Kristol) . . . //**__Work's Cited:__**// //Kristol, Irving. "My famous Quotes". [|www.myfamousquotes.om]. October 27,2011.//
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Brunner, Bobby. //California v. Bakke//: Timeline Article. www.wikispaces.com. October 26, 2011.Alexie, Sherman.

//The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.// //Paraphrased by// Drew, Jacob, Ben, Emma, and Max. www.wikispaces.com. October 26, 2011.

//Legal Rights//: Civil Rights Act of 1964. From class handout. October 11, 2011.

Rodriguez, Gregory. "Undocumented workers: essential but unwanted." // Los Angeles // // Times //. N.p., 11 Oct. 2010. Web. 25 Oct. 2011. < [] la-oe-rodriguez-column-illegal-immigr20101011>.

Jill Waltz, Abortion Pro, buchholtzsidoramericanstudies.wikispaces.com, October 27, 2011

Monohan, Jeanne. "Abortion Debates." // CQresearcher //. N.p., 10 Sept. 2010. Web. 25 Oct. 2011. < [|http://www.library.cqpress.com] >.

The Bakke Decision by Ramsey Clark

Book, // The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian // by Sherman Alexie, paraphrased by Drew, Jacob, Ben, Emma, and Max.

Works cited on power point.