Dear GOP, Get Your Hands Off My Body

Clearly the debate on Abortion "rights" endures and will do so indefinate­ly as we live in a culture of narcissism and self interested discontent­. That said, our prosperity is a cornerston­e to all of our concerns. To disallow all abortions even those which are elective is to put a stumbling stone before the blind. The person's with a solid aversion to having their own child who have become pregnant for whatever reason must be offered the outcome that will ensure their health and prosperity­. To disallow abortion will only yield an unhealthy population and a population that does not care for its own future in terms of innate inner health among the women and families effected by such a sadly unwanted pregnancy. This is not likely going to be a limited experience in the day that we have indeed a stong liberal base of thinking in this nation. That said, all attempts to keep a fetus to term should be mandated as far as family counseling­. In the end, one must make one's own decisions as to their futures. This is liberalism and it is not a permissive or pacifist approach. So be healthy and consult your physician and indeed organizati­ons such as planned parenthood and psychologi­cal counseling­. The idea of late abortions should not be a valid option and one should make one's own decision in the early months of pregnancy. Our nation's health is the priority, though I suspect better conseling will yield fewer terminatio­ns of pregnancy. Thanks.
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The Power of Family Dinner to Fight Childhood Obesity

While our children's health is a matter of good concern. I must say that obesity is a condition that afflicts the most of our society and clearly it not the end all in our concern for a healthy lifestyle. If a child is physically able, one should be encouraged to exercise ACTIVELY his or her entire years until perhaps one has become a mature adult in the thirty some year age range in my thoughts. I do not think that our dietary obsessions are the most ugly of human activities nor do I think that our major concern should be for the aesthetics of our generation­s. That said, the linkage to diabetes and other health concerns is a very real and scary prospect and we should do all we can do to encourage healthy living in the younger generation­s. Exercise and diet are essential. To think that we are going to live on fast food at a fast pace and eat foods with high sugar contents and other major amounts of carbohydra­tes and processed foods is to consider that our priority is just on base wants and not the type of diet that yields a healthy mind and physical body. The school lunch programs are surely a place to begin of course. But that said, I would never starve a child of all of the food options and colas completely­. "A healthy citizen is a country's greatest asset" (Churchill­)
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