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This trailer emphasizes the affect of the Second Civil War over reproductive rights. Instead of abortion, unwinding comes into the picture. This shows that unwinding a person is not much better than abortion because parents are still deliberately deciding to get rid of their children.

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Inspired by the novel "Unwind" by Neal Shusterman. When I started reading this book I literally couldn't stop. I read it in one sitting. It's thrilling, provoking and "easy" to read.. I found a fanmade short film that is based the book. It's amazingly done.

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What does it mean to "unwind" something?

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What does it mean to "unwind" something?

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To unwind something means to be undone after being wound or to release from tension

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Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, parents can chose to have their child unwound. This means that the child is surgically taken apart. Parents may chose to unwind their children if they are misbehaved or they are the last child in the family. Their body parts are then used when others need specific parts. The process starts when children are sent the Harvest Camps. Harvest Camps house children that are being unwound. The procedure is also done at Harvest Camps. Within the Harvest Camps are the chop houses. Chop houses are surgical rooms where teenagers are taken apart.

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The truck driver helping Connor in the beginning of the novel explains how he gets in a big accident. He ended up losing an arm and a kidney. However, he eventually gets a new arm and kidney from an unwound: "These fingers here knew things the rest of me didn't. Muscle Memory they call it. And there's not a day that goes by that I don't wonder what other incredible things that kid who owned this arm knew, before he was unwound.. whoever he was" (Shusterman 14). The people who receive body parts from unwinds tend to think about who the unwind was, how they were, etc. By the way that people who received the body parts speak upon the unwound children, the reader can infer that they feel horrible about the process. Yet, people are thankful for unwinds to be able to survive for themselves.

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How does the book view the process of unwinding?

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How does the book view the process of unwinding?

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The book views the process of unwinding as a good thing. A person is not necessarily dying but living through another person through their body parts. Therefore, the book does not believe that unwinding is considered murder. Rather, the book views unwinding as living and thriving through someone else.

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"What if they don't want to take us to be unwound? What if they want us dead?" (Shusterman 59)

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"What if they don't want to take us to be unwound? What if they want us dead?" (Shusterman 59)

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This quote is said when the children, Conner, Risa, and Lev, realize that their faces are not in the news after they ran from being unwound. They wonder if their parents actually care if they are gone. They wonder this because they thought that their parents wanted them unwound. If their parents wanted them unwound so bad, then why are they not being looked for? This is when the children begin to realize, especially Lev, that being unwound is synonymous to murder.

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Murder is the crime of unlawfully killing a person especially with malice

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A death sentence is when one is being put to death by a capital crime. Giving someone the death sentence means they "deserve" it for something he or she did. Being unwound can be compared to the death sentence because when one is unwound, the act is as a result of his or her poor behavior.

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Editorial

Credit... Yarek Waszul

Alva Campbell was supposed to die on Nov. 15. That was the date chosen by the State of Ohio, which had convicted and condemned Mr. Campbell for murdering a teenager, Charles Dials, during a 1997 carjacking in Columbus.

Inside the death chamber that morning, prison officials spent more than an hour searching Mr. Campbell's arms and legs for a vein into which they could inject the lethal drug cocktail. They comforted him as they prepared to kill him, providing the 69-year-old with a wedge pillow to help with breathing problems related to his years of heavy smoking.

After about 80 minutes, they gave up and returned Mr. Campbell to his cell, where he sits awaiting his next date with death, now set for June 5, 2019.

The pathetic scene was a fitting symbol of the state of capital punishment in America in 2017, a vile practice that descends further into macabre farce even as it declines in use. Mr. Campbell would have been the 24th person put to death last year. That's less than a quarter of the 98 executions carried out in 1999.

The number should be zero. As the nation enters 2018, the Supreme Court is considering whether to hear at least one case asking it to strike down the death penalty, once and for all, for violating the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishments.

Whether the justices take that or another case, the facts they face will be the same: The death penalty is a savage, racially biased, arbitrary and pointless punishment that becomes rarer and more geographically isolated with every year. In 2017 the total number of people sitting on death rows across America fell for the 17th straight year. In Harris County, Tex., the nation's undisputed leader in state-sanctioned killing, the year passed without a single execution or death sentence - the first time that's happened in more than 40 years.

Still, Texas was one of just two states - Arkansas is the other - responsible for almost half of 2017's executions. And nearly one in three of the nation's 39 new death sentences last year were handed down in three counties: Riverside in California, Clark in Nevada and Maricopa in Arizona.

It would be tempting to conclude from this litany, which is drawn from an annual report by the Death Penalty Information Center, that capital punishment is being reserved for the most horrific crimes committed by the most incorrigible offenders. But it would be wrong.

The death penalty is not and has never been about the severity of any given crime. Mental illness, intellectual disability, brain damage, childhood abuse or neglect, abysmal lawyers, minimal judicial review, a white victim - these factors are far more closely associated with who ends up getting executed. Of the 23 people put to death in 2017, all but three had at least one of these factors, according to the report. Eight were younger than 21 at the time of their crime.

More troubling still are the wrongful convictions. In 2017, four more people who had been sentenced to death were exonerated, for a total of 160 since 1973 - a time during which 1,465 people were executed. In many of the exonerations, prosecutors won convictions and sentences despite questionable or nonexistent evidence, pervasive misconduct or a pattern of racial bias. A 2014 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences extrapolated from known cases of wrongful convictions to estimate that at least 4 percent of all death-row inmates are wrongfully convicted. Against this backdrop, it would take an enormous leap of faith to believe that no innocent person has ever been executed.

This page has long opposed the death penalty, and would continue to even if the penalty's application were completely free of bias and error. That is an unattainable goal, as should be obvious by now. Perhaps this explains why Americans, whose support for capital punishment climbed as high as 80 percent in 1994, have increasingly lost their appetite for state-sanctioned killing. Support is down to around 55 percent, its lowest level in 45 years.

The rest of the developed world agreed to reject this cruel and pointless practice long ago. How can it be ended here, for good?

Leaving it up to individual states is not the solution. It's true that 19 states and the District of Columbia have already banned capital punishment, four have suspended it and eight others haven't executed anyone in more than a decade. Some particularly awful state policies have also been eliminated in the past couple of years, like a Florida law that permitted non-unanimous juries to impose death sentences, and an Alabama rule empowering judges to override a jury's vote for life, even a unanimous one, and impose death.

And yet at the same time, states have passed laws intended to speed up the capital appeals process, despite the growing evidence of legal errors and prosecutorial misconduct that can be hidden for years or longer. Other states have gone to great lengths to hide their lethal-injection protocols from public scrutiny, even as executions with untested drugs have gone awry and pharmaceutical companies have objected to the use of their products to kill people.

Last summer, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg suggested that the death penalty would eventually end with a whimper. "The incidence of capital punishment has gone down, down, down so that now, I think, there are only three states that actually administer the death penalty," Justice Ginsburg said at a law school event. "We may see an end to capital punishment by attrition as there are fewer and fewer executions."

That's a dispiriting take. The death penalty holdouts may be few and far between, but they are fiercely committed, and they won't stop killing people unless they're forced to. Relying on the vague idea of attrition absolves the court of its responsibility to be the ultimate arbiter and guardian of the Constitution - and specifically of the Eighth Amendment. The court has already relied on that provision to ban the execution of juvenile offenders, the intellectually disabled and those convicted of crimes against people other than murder.

There's no reason not to take the final step. The justices have all the information they need right now to bring America in line with most of the rest of the world and end the death penalty for good.

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Opinion | Capital Punishment Deserves a Quick Death (Published 2018)

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Editorial Alva Campbell was supposed to die on Nov. 15. That was the date chosen by the State of Ohio, which had convicted and condemned Mr. Campbell for murdering a teenager, Charles Dials, during a 1997 carjacking in Columbus.

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Abortion is the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy.

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In essence, a vacuum or suction abortion requires a doctor to cut the baby up in your womb and suck out the pieces. In Unwind, parents chose to have their child "unwound", meaning that their bodies are surgically taken apart. Both processes require the deliberate taking apart of a person. Both must take place in evil, disgusting places such as abortion clinics and chop houses. Just as abortion is murder, unwinding is murder as well.

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There are a few types of abortion that are done in clinics or hospitals. The type you get will probably depend almost entirely on how far you are along in your pregnancy.

If you're in your first trimester, you'll likely have a vacuum aspiration. If you're in your second trimester (meaning that it's been more than 13 weeks since your last menstrual period), you'll likely have a dilation and evacuation, or D&E. If you're further along than that, you might have a dilation and extraction, or D&X.

Almost all abortion procedures are out-patient, which means you won't have to stay overnight in the doctor's office, clinic, or hospital afterward.

Before the Procedure

When you schedule your appointment, your health care provider will probably give you some instructions over the phone. Because in-clinic abortions are considered surgeries, you may have to fast starting around midnight the night before your procedure.

When you arrive at the clinic, you'll fill out some paperwork and answer questions about your medical history. You'll then get a pre-abortion workup, which includes a physical examination, pregnancy test, blood test, screening for sexually transmitted infections, and possibly additional testing, if your case warrants it. Many providers will also use an ultrasound to confirm how far along you are in your pregnancy and check for uterine, fetal, or placental abnormalities.

All of this information, which your doctor will discuss with you during a short counseling session, will help them determine which procedure is right for you.

Pain Management

Your doctor will also talk to you about different types of pain management available to you during the procedure.

For an in-clinic abortion, you'll probably get local anesthesia, meaning that your cervix will be numbed but you'll be awake. While 600 to 800 milligrams of ibuprofen usually provides enough pain relief, your doctor might also offer you an oral medication to calm you down or mildly sedate you, so you're awake but relaxed. If you prefer heavy sedation, meaning you're in a light sleep throughout the procedure, you can ask if a sedative medication can be given to you through an IV.

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Vacuum Aspiration (Suction Abortion)

Most abortions done in the U.S. take place in the first 12 to 13 weeks of pregnancy. If you opt for an in-clinic abortion in your first trimester, you'll have a vacuum aspiration, which you may also hear called a "suction abortion."

In most cases, your cervix doesn't need to be prepped or dilated for this procedure. But if you're more than about 10 to 12 weeks pregnant, your health care provider may take steps to open your cervix a bit before getting started so that the medical tools can access your uterus. She'll likely insert little sticks made of sterilized seaweed that absorb moisture and expand, called laminaria.

Once you're ready for the procedure, your health care provider will have you lie on an exam table with your feet in stirrups, like you're having a pelvic exam.

When you're comfortable and sedated, if you so choose, your health care provider will insert a medical tool called a speculum into your vagina to keep it open, and swab your vagina and cervix with an antiseptic solution called Betadine.

She'll inject an anesthetic into the cervix to numb it, holding your cervix in place with a grasping instrument. She'll then insert a small tube attached to either a hand-held syringe or a suction machine into your uterus, and clear out its contents. From start to finish, the procedure takes several minutes.

Afterward, your doctor will check to make sure that the procedure was successful, and then let you rest for about 30 minutes under observation.

Second Trimester: Dilation and Evacuation

If you're more than 12 weeks pregnant, your provider will use an ultrasound to date your pregnancy. The farther along you are, the more prep work you may have to undergo to prepare your body for the procedure.

While doctors can do vacuum aspirations until about 14 weeks, the most common type of second-trimester abortion is called dilation and evacuation, or D&E.

The first step a provider will take before this procedure is to prepare and dilate your cervix so that it's not injured in the procedure. They will likely use laminaria sticks, which might be left in overnight. They might also give you a dose of a medication such as misoprostol, either by mouth or through your vagina, to soften your uterus. They may also use tools to help dilate your cervix.

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Like a first-trimester abortion, you'll lie on an exam table with your feet in stirrups, and your health care provider will swab your vagina and cervix with Betadine, inject anesthesia into your cervix, and then use a gripping tool to hold your cervix in place.

The main difference is that in addition to using a vacuum suction in your uterus, they'll also use forceps and other medical tools, including one called a curette to scrape the inside of your uterus. Your doctor may use ultrasound to guide them, and will likely use a suction or vacuum to make sure everything is cleared out. Some providers may use a medication, which you would get as a shot into your abdomen, to stop the fetal heartbeat before the procedure. Afterward, your provider may give you a medication to contract your uterus and reduce bleeding.

This procedure takes 10 to 20 minutes. You'll rest for 30 minutes to an hour while your health care providers make sure you're well.

Late-Term Abortion: Dilation and Extraction

If you're having an abortion further along in your pregnancy, you may have to find a specialized, experienced provider to do a dilation and extraction procedure, or D&X. This is a procedure that doctors usually reserve for when there is a serious problem with the fetus or medical complications related to the mother.

All the steps leading up to the procedure and steps taken after the procedure are the same as for a D&E, including the ultrasound to date your pregnancy and prep work to soften and dilate your cervix.

For sedation, you might be offered a general IV anesthesia, especially if the procedure is done in a hospital.

There are a few other options, like labor induction, hysterotomy and hysterectomy. But because they are riskier, doctors only do them if medically necessary.

What Happens Next?

Once your procedure is done, you'll rest at the clinic under supervision for about 30 minutes. You can then continue to relax in a recovery area until you're ready to head home. If you've had any sedation, you'll need someone to drive you. You'll get a prescription for an antibiotic, too.

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You'll probably have some cramping for a few days and light bleeding for up to 2 weeks. Most pain and cramping is effectively treated with an over the counter or prescription painkiller like acetaminophen, ibuprofen, or codeine.

Plan to rest on the day of your procedure. You may need a few more days of rest if you had a D&E or D&X. You shouldn't lift anything heavy for a few days. Ask your doctor when it would be OK to have sex or use a tampon again -- it may be up to a month before you can have anything in your vagina.

If you have severe pain, a fever over 100 F, or soak through more than two pads per hour, you should call your provider or the emergency contact they gave you right away.

Most providers will have you come back for a follow-up appointment in 1 to 4 weeks to make sure that you've physically recovered and are no longer pregnant.

Sources

SOURCES:

Planned Parenthood: "In-Clinic Abortion Procedures," "What happens during an in-clinic abortion?" "What can I expect after an in-clinic abortion?"

Medscape: "Elective Abortion Overview: Pathophysiology," "Elective Abortion Follow-up: Further Inpatient Care," "Elective Abortion Clinical Presentation: History," "Elective Abortion Clinical Presentation: Physical," "Elective Abortion Workup: Laboratory Studies," "Elective Abortion Workup: Imaging Studies," "Elective Abortion Treatment and Management: Surgical Care," "Elective Abortion Treatment and Management: Medical Care," "Elective Abortion Medication: Medication Summary," "Elective Abortion Medication: Antibiotics," "Elective Abortion Follow-up: Further Outpatient Care," "Elective Abortion Medication: Sedatives," "Elective Abortion Medication: Uterotonics," "Elective Abortion Treatment and Management: Activity."

National Abortion Federation: "Abortion After 12 Weeks."

Guttmacher Institute: "Induced Abortion in the United States."

ACOG: The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists: "FAQs: Induced Abortion," The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists: "Pregnancy Choices: Raising the Baby, Adoption and Abortion."

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There are a few types of abortion that are done in clinics or hospitals. The type you get will probably depend almost entirely on how far you are along in your pregnancy. If you're in your first trimester, you'll likely have a vacuum aspiration.

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How does this picture supports the idea of being unwound?

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How does this picture supports the idea of being unwound?

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The picture on the left shows a person fully together. The picture on the right shows a person broken up into pieces. Notice how the heart is missing on the right. This supports that unwinding is murder. Without your heart, you cannot live. However on the left, a person has his or her's heart and is thriving as a full being.

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Unwind was one of the best books I read. The book opens the reader's eyes to society and its' issues concerning deliberate deaths. These deaths are abortions, murder, death sentences, etc. Although the author does not directly state that unwinding is considered murder, it is inferred by the reader that the author believes unwinding is murder. Just as abortions or death sentences may not seem as direct as murder, it is understood by many that abortions and death sentences are murderous acts.