You've been sexually assaulted.. That's your fault.

Why is it when we are told no or denied something, we want that something even more? Craving and knowing that you can’t have something makes us crazy and we aren’t satisfied until we have it. Maybe it’s a thrill, excitement or psychological thing, who knows? It’s like we have our definition of “no” confused for “yes” and I’m sure everyone at one point done or took what they can’t have to satisfy that craving. So does that mean that it’s okay to do or take something that was denied to you because knowing you can’t made you want it even more? 

An article published in The Texas Tribune, Two Texas Colleges on Title IX Investigation List, Southern Methodist University and University of Texas-Pan America are Texas’ two listed institutions that are under investigation for possible violation of federal law in they're handling of sexual violence and harassment complaints. The Houston Chronicle published and article in October 2014 that states more sexual assaults reported at Texas universities. 

College is the time for choosing a career path, a road to our future, making new friends and memories. Rape and sexual assaults are the memories I’m sure victims probably wish they didn’t remember. How are victims or potential victims supposed to feel safe when schools sweep claims under the rug and they see their attacker walking freely? Does it mean the school is enabling that type of behavior? Does the school assume that all students are just some young wild crazy partiers that lack judgment and responsibility? Giving the football star a slap on the hand and a second chance to remain on the team, how is that justice served?

Not all claims are true, which there has been false claims and accusations made, however, it’s about how and the way universities handle and investigate these type of issues. It’s important to raise awareness of the issue and making all students feel safe when on or around campus. 

“An investigation done by ESPN revealed that the University of Missouri did not investigate or tell law enforcement about an alleged rape in 2010, possibly by one or more football players, even though administrators discovered the alleged incident more than a year earlier. The survivor committed suicide in 2011.”

Yes, it is our responsibility when drinking/partying. Sober or not, it still doesn’t give anyone the right to violate another person. We need to stop with the “well she/he was asking for it” or “she/he had it coming” because it makes us just as guilty and enabling the behavior. Now just imagine if you were the victim, your family member or your child. What would you do? How would you feel? 

Hey Texas! I have the right to choose or you’re my baby’s father!

The title of Karis’s blog “Pulling Out” caught my attention and out of curiosity I was interested to further read what her article was about. In her blog, Karis argues about the Texas abortion law and how women are being forced with unwanted pregnancies due to the difficulty in getting an abortion from the closures of all except eight abortion clinics in Texas. She makes a very interesting point about how not only do most of these children end up in foster care from unwanted pregnancies, but is the government following up on what happens to these children who end up in the system? Anti-abortionists protest how we should not kill unborn babies and how it’s the life of a child, yet are they going to care or provide for these babies once they’re born?

I’m neither for or against abortion, but I am pro-choice. I have the rights to my body and what business is it to anyone what I choose to do with it? Whatever happened to freedom of choice? I feel that this abortion law, as a woman myself and to other women, our rights are being taken away like we have no power or control to our own body. Motherhood should be a choice of our own choosing because it’s OUR life and not anyone else. The way I see it, if I’m being forced by this law into having a child that I don’t want or can’t afford, is the government or the anti-abortion protesters going to help care and provide for my child? It’s only equal that they should be forced to do so if women are being forced into keeping their baby. 

Overall I most definitely have to agree with Karis’s argument. FREEDOM OF CHOICE! Unless a woman knowingly and purposely implanted with sperm via donor or in-vitro-fertilization, it takes TWO people to get pregnant. If women are being denied the right to choose for themselves, then Texas have no choice or right to deny women help, care or financial support. Babies are not cheap! In that case, from the famous words of Maury Povich, YOU ARE THE FATHER!