Why Should Anyone Care?

 Companion: You don’t think you could ever really do anything about it, do you? 

Me: Not on my own. But I will do everything I can to spread awareness to this issue and get more people on my side. If more and more people stand for this issue, the more likely it will get brought to officials attention and they will want to do something about it.

Companion: What if people do not see eye to eye with you?

Me: Then I will do everything in my power to make them see my side of the story. Banning abortion (my topic) puts women's lives at risk. This is a health issue. People need to realize that at some point in their lives, and the earlier the better.

Companion: But Roe v Wade just got overturned, they won't change it back now.

Me: We just have to start from the beginning again. Women fought in our history to get Roe v Wade before, we can do it again. This time it will be easier with the use of social media to spread awareness in the click of a button.

Companion: I guess if women did it before, they can do it again. 

Pollan answers his own question, Why bother?, with the fact that personal actions are necessary. If you are doing something you believe in and spread awareness, it is likely to create a ripple affect and more and more people will begin doing it as well. I don't like to call it a trend, but it really is. Overall, it can help raise awareness and help it spread. 

"Believing Game": Specialization can make a person disconnected from everything happening around them because you are so focused on one thing. If we stopped relying so much on specialists, people would become more aware of things going on around them and could lead to a healthier society.

"Doubting Game": We need specialists for many things in our world because we can count on them when we need it. Such as doctors, scientists, etc. They put so much work into their own world and it helps us because they become so talented and smart on their specific areas of work. 

What Pollan did well that I will do in my essay is be practical and use data/statistics to state my point. He also did a good job with connecting the readers to the issue and also ease into the argument and not jump right into things. 

(My topic is abortion) Trigger Warning!

Abortions rights continue to be stripped away from women ever since the overturning of Roe v Wade. While abortion is a women's health right to end a pregnancy, many people feel that the baby's life should come first. A women may get an abortion for numerous reasons, whether that's because it was unplanned/accidental, financial problems, rape, incest, mothers health, etc. While you would hope people would put the mother's life first, many believe that the babies life deserves a chance too. Therefore, it's unconstitutional to abort an unborn child. Let me say now before anyone gets angry with me, I can totally understand that belief. However, I do not think that should come on top of the mother's life. "By banning abortion, women will need to result to unhealthy and dangerous matters" (The Unequal Impacts of Abortion Bans). Whether that means they turn to substances, try and do it theirselves, or find someone to try and do it. All of those options being extremely dangerous and may end up in the mother's death, meaning they both die in the end. If a mother does not choose that path, she will keep it. If a mom is not financially stable and does not have any family or friends to help, this puts them both in a bad situation. If a women or young girl was raped, she now has to live with a child she never wanted and is forced to carry that trauma with her forever. If the mother's health is at risk, the mother may end up dying and the child will have lost their mother. Not to mention if they find out what happened when they grow up, that they killed their mom. Now the child is forever traumatized. Moral of the story, banning abortion will cause more harm than good. If a women needs to make this decision for themselves and their overall well-being, so be it. I would also like to mention how awful it is that many of these laws and opposers of abortion are men. It is sickening. They should have no right in telling women what they can or cannot do with their bodies. Just like alcohol, banning it will not stop it from happening. It will only put more lives at risk.