While reading thru some blogs I came up on a headline that caught my attention, maybe because I am a woman.  On October 19 Hayley Krischer posted her opinion regarding a topic Women should take into consideration when voting this year.

This post talks about what the presidential candidate, Romney, thinks about abortion and contraception on the legal side. It gives us an idea of things that women would face in the near future if we decided to vote for Romney. Times have changed and it has cost the nation struggles to be at the point where we are. It was hard to stop discrimination towards colored people, women's right to vote, and equality among different genders. And to come upon a point of view from a different perspective, I have to say I agree with the writer on certain points. I believe as women we have the right to decide if we have the capability of having a baby or if we want to have some type of protection that can be affordable for everyone. Doing some research regarding the "Roe v Wade" case I see how they want to make a balance in regulation abortions to protect prenatal life and protecting women health, but i don't think that they should stop funds from  going towards planned parenthood or change anything that has improved our nation. Having less pregnancy's at a younger age in our nation is a benefit because a lot of those young mothers end up without a career, single and low income. As the author mentions the National Center for Health Statistics uncovered that the rate dropped 18% and abortions 32%, and still they want to make changes. Having the ability of more affordable health clinics for women allows our nation to be more educated. Being more educated allows crime rates to go down, since most kids from single mothers end up with low income and/or criminal records. I also agree with the part she talks about the Blunt Amendment, how is it possible that employers can deny health coverage just because they consider it "morally objectionable."

 The only thing that I really didn't like is how this opinion makes Romney look like he is not being equal towards women. I considered myself more republican, but I don't want our nation to give a step back on women's right and equal opportunity. No woman should have to choose between seeing a doctor and putting food on the table for her family.

In the Opinion page of the New York Times I found an interesting opinion by Ross Douthat published on Sept 29 2012 called “why Obama is winning.”  Which talks about Obama and the unemployment at this moment.

I agree with the author, since we elected Obama as president, in 2008, the unemployment rate has decrease. After going thru George bush and his last two years of worsening the economy including the “subprime mortgage crisis” and the huge increase in the U.S national debt. In 2008 the unemployment rate was at it maximum of 11.8% after 14 years of trying to stabilize it, it reached its maximums. (http://www.epi.org/publication/webfeatures_econindicators_jobspict_20081107/)  Now after 4yrs it’s decreased down to 8.1% as of fall 2012. As we read we can agree with the term that “economy is growing” is correct. Although it’s moving at a slow pace at least we are going upward.

A lot of people prefer to see the nation taking baby steps to avoid going into debt or losing ground making us be worse than before.  This improvements that has happened slowly is the reason why we see Obama ahead of Romney at this moment, the people prefer to support a person who at least has done a little of improvement to our nation instead of someone who really doesn’t have a plan of attack.

A very important topic that is mentioned in this opinion is the fact that we have got to think of the consequences in a near future of the increase of unemployment we suffered. Since now in day’s people feel they have to secure their jobs, it’s made younger people put off the decision of having kids, marriage and doing life.  This means that in a future whit this reduction in birthrate we will not be going thru another “baby boom”, instead we will have less working people to pay off debt. Some people believe that periods of economic stagnation are followed by a burst of growth, so let’s just hope they are right.