Potential Sources

 Finding other blogs with familiar themes like mine was somewhat both easy and hard; it was more of a variety and so much to look at as I researched Feminist bloggers and Women's Right activist. As the research got deeper I started developing a sense of what women went through from the early years to now. With hard work and a little more push I found some great bloggers that wrote more about the equality of women and rights we hold as a female.

The first of the two I will list for now is called speakingofwomensrights which is by numerous bloggers that are speaking up for women around the world and also their personal experience, All the bloggers caught my attention but, there was this one blogger named Megan Veith which is a legal voice advocate for Speaking of Women's Rights. She has a number of good posts on Women and healthcare, women and birth controls and also sexual assault and etc. A post called Putting Mothers First:  

How the Affordable Care Act May Help Lower Maternal Health Costs was one of her interesting post since there are controversies on the Obama Care Act. Megan focuses on how she researched having a child is not cheap it can be costly and for women who can’t afford health insurance they could be paying roughly around $37,000 US just to give birth. She puts in her own words:

“The main reasons that pregnancies are so expensive in the US are the increased use of unnecessary medical interventions for low-risk pregnancies, such as C-sections and inductions, as well as the high cost of medical malpractice insurance for OB/GYNs. Moreover, cost-saving and effective alternatives to hospitalized births (such as the use of midwives or birth centers) are grossly underfunded and in some cases highly restricted or even illegal because state laws, with doctor support, make it difficult for them to become licensed even when they are just as safe (and arguably even safer) for women with low-risk births.”  I agree with Megan that there are many unnecessary things that is putting the price of pregnancy up especially medical interventions for low-risk pregnancies.

This was one of her recent post as of August 23, 2013. A lot of people are following the speakingofwomensrights blog and writing their own stories on it. I hope it continues to release frequent content that I can use/interact with.

  

The second post is Title IX and Sexual Violence: Tackling More Than Sports; which is also one of Megan Veith active post. I thought at first there wasn’t a law that helped both male and female student athlete but, mostly female athletes in a critical way. I kept researching about student athletes and women since I am a student athlete and as well still on the topic of sexual assault from my older post, I saw that Title IX helps ensure that schools don’t ignore allegations of sexual violence, including rape, sexual assault, sexual battery, and sexual coercion towards females and male athletes (mostly females) because we are most likely to be rape victims then males.

 From a friend personal experience I researched more that’s when I found Megan blog, she was a student athlete also. In her blog she exposed how schools should not stay silence when they hear about sexual violence because some schools stay private about such topics as sexually assault.  Megan researched that, these obligations on schools are particularly important because one in four women will survive a rape or attempted rape by the time she graduates college. Men are also victims of sexual violence at school. Moreover, a recent study by the National Institute of Justice found that schools are grossly under prepared in sexual assault awareness training and education and only about 50% of schools have “specific sexual assault policy goals.” Facts like these are taken in affect as some Universities students have already filed a Title IX complaint.

Although I may have to sift through some posts that are unrelated to my focus, there is potential on all Megan Veith post, I will continue to seek out new blogs, ever coming in on the perfect sources for my final analysis paper, but these first few have been encouraging finds.

 http://speakingofwomensrights.blogspot.com/2013/08/title-ix-and-sexual-violence-tackling.html

http://speakingofwomensrights.blogspot.com/2013/08/putting-mothers-first-how-affordable.html