COMMENTARY

1. Express your opinion on a subject

2. First Paragraph – background (context) about the subject.
3. Next paragraph – state your overall opinion
4. provide examples that support your opinion
5. use transitional words or phrases to indicate new ideas
6. Finally, end with a ‘kicker’ that sums up your ideas and may tie-in to opening or
beginning theme. (re-iterate your opinion)
7. Don’t attempt a history lesson; just provide enough info so the reader understands the
issue.
8. 5 w’s who, what, where, when, why
9. write it in the 3rd person

Disposable. That is what the RU 46 pill allows. The RU 486 pill, also known as the

“morning after” pill has been used by over 500,000 women since its approval by the Food

and Drug Administration since 2000. Women’s reproductive “rights” have been a significant

political social and moral issue since 1972.

Joseph Stalin once said of Capitalism “Give them enough rope and they will hang

themselves”, I fear the same might be said of the future of our country demographically. A

Nation’s strength lies in its ability to produce products, services and innovation from people.

Few will argue that we don’t have enough people on the planet or enough people to allow

immigration to fulfill any void of population in the United States. The questions I ask myself

is “ Does the culture of our nation have any significance or are the shifting sands of religious

beliefs, cultural values and moral imperatives significant?”

If abortion in any form has allowed for 37 million citizens to be annihilated, not the

mention their future children and offspring and the population void that represents has been
filled by other people, what becomes of the remains of our citizenry, culture and foundational

beliefs in religion, culture and societal values that represent ‘America’?

Demographics once again show an inverted pyramid of age differentiatiors that affect the

balance of working productive people verses aging, less productive individuals. Simply

stated, the lack of younger individuals to replace older working individuals and consumers

that sustain the 70 percent of consumption that drives this nations growth and global

economic activity becomes a significant issue.

Someone has to produce goods and someone has to consume them. That is how the world

goes round. Up until now The U.S. has been the consuming nation and the rest of the world

has been the providers. As a result of lower birth rates, aging populations in Western

civilizations and global aging demographics, age and the ability to sustain productivity has

become a great concern. Nations such as India and China have populations that are triple our

size have the age demographics needed to fulfill global output and capacity. Amirica has

traded its independence and future citizens in for a more convenient form of consumption.

The strength of any country is its people, the issue becomes of how we treat our own

citizens and can we afford to educate them, feed them, provide jobs for them and prosper

them to fulfill the needs of global industry and production.

It seems we get all of the resulting values of other nationalities without an identity.

Imported values, customs, belief systems and cultures become the identity of America. This

confused sense of identity creates an inherent conflict in the sense of solidarity and freedom

that is replace with merchant survival, but one of little identity.

The pill is not solely responsible for the results of a disposable society with no identity or

social norms. We have always been a ‘salad bar’ of variety, not necessarily a melting pot of
cohesion. But what of a national identity? I think we are confused and determining our

values, culture and direction will continue to shift, change and transform into a

heterogeneous representation of minorities and majorities.

The face and character of America is changing and the pill gives us the push towards that

demographic end. Perhaps that is a good thing and change was due, we will know soon

enough, by 2030 the numbers begin to shift in significant ways, only time will tell how they

define our country’s future.