Comments On Texas' Water Conservation

In one of my classmates article The World On A Political Scale she talked about the water conservation in Texas. She talks about how the water issue that we are having right now in Texas, how we are in a stage 2 drought, and all the ways that we can reduce our water wastage. She wants the government to take an extra to enforcing the rules that they set to actually help the water problem, and I agree with her.

Everyone uses water, it is one of the main resources that people need to survive, the 70% of earth is made up of water but that doesn't mean people could just waste it all. My classmate make a very nice point on how people are still watering their lawns, washing their cars, and taking hour long shower when we are clearly in a drought. The government needs to be more strict on all of the drought law due to the fact that we do not get rain. 

She also talks about how the government could be stricter on the water laws like the weekly checks to see if we are not using too much water. Which seems fine because people wouldn't not take any of the water laws seriously unless the get a ticket or when the water runs out, and at the water rates now that could happen soon. I can agree with the argument that Ms. Clark in her Texas Water Conservation article.

Abortion in Texas?

            Abortion is one of the many topics that seem to be a very touchy subject to talk about in Texas. There was a large battle during the summer about women having the right to have the option of abortion. House Bill 2 that was enforced on October 29th requires the doctors that are performing the abortion surgery have hospital admitting privilege within 30 miles of the facility, and that doctors follows the FDA regimen, rather than commonly used evidence-based protocol, for drug-induced abortions. Which I think is a good bill because it still allows abortions in Texas, and it still gives women a choice. The only hassle is that most of the planned parenthood that performed the abortions don't meet the requirements so they no longer able to have abortions there. Most people were kind of upset about this because they couldn't go somewhere easy to get there business done. Judge Lee Yeakel wanted to reverse the House Bill because the requirements of the facility having the hospital admitting privilege is an undue burden for the women. Which yes it will make it more complicated for an abortion but not having this Bill will just allow any clinic to perform the surgery. It is always better safe than sorry in my opinion. Abortion would never be my first choice and it would probably never be a choice in my life but having that option still floating around would be nice. In Texas people are very good at taking their religion and opinion and shoving it down other people's throats. This Bill is kind of a tie for the abortion battle because abortion facilities are closing but there are still some facilities that are still open that are going to be much safer to go to. I think that they should just leave the House Bill 2 it's not making abortion illegal it is making it safer.