Learning Outcomes

  • Identify one’s roles and responsibilities as a global citizen in personal and professional life.
  • Identify beliefs, values and behaviours that form individual and community identities and the basis for respectful relationships.
  • Analyze issues of equity at the personal, professional and global level.
  • Analyze the use of the world’s resources to achieve sustainability and equitable distribution at the personal, professional and global level.
  • Identify and challenge unjust practices in local and global systems.
  • Support personal and social responsibility initiatives at the local, national and global level.

GC&E - Identify and Challenge Unjust Practices in Local and Global Systems

Part One:

Step one:        

               I picked the U.S. abortion policies as an unjust practice. I found an article written by Rutgers Health around the subject.

Step Two:  

               America has made it illegal in many states to have an abortion for adults and youth who live in those states. A lot of states will allow abortions if the youth get their parents approval, which can create unnecessary backlash to the youth. The supreme court has enacted restrictions on abortion access following the 2022 Dobb vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (Zielinski, 2025). In doing so, the young females involved have lost their ability to control their own lives. As of December 2024, twelve states have banned abortions completely and 10 have restrictive limits (Zielinski. 2025). 

The long-term impacts of having a restrictive abortion law is huge. Many youths today have started to try at home remedies to have an abortion, as they either do not have access to an abortion clinic or need their parents’ consent. Having an abortion can be hard enough on the youth, but involving a parent can make it even more complicated. Some parents have religious views that the life of the unborn baby should be protected, so if they found out it could take away that young girl’s choice or have her be shunned by her family.

 

Part 2:

Step one:

I found Jane’s Due Process which is an organization designed to help females under the age of 18 go to court to get a judicial bypass order.

Step Two:

Jane’s Due Process allows female youth to have an abortion without their parents knowing, by going to court and representing you to get a Judicial Bypass order. A Judicial Bypass order lets the court decide if you are mature enough to understand the decision you are making. You also must show that if your parents find out you would face some type of abuse, it could be sexual, physical, or emotional.  It lists all the states where you would be parental approval to have an abortion and have a hot line to call that is open 24\7. If you call the number, they also can help you learn whether its legal for you to leave your state and get an abortion or not. They also have a section about birth control which can help limit the chances of youth getting pregnant and those under 18 can get access to a plan B pill without needed parental consent (Jane’s Due Process n.d.).

 

Step Three:

This organization uses a direct service to help promote and protect the rights of the youth involved and ensure they can have a say on what their future can look like.   The strategies of Jane’s Due Process can help address the unjust practice of not allowing females the right to chose for themselves to have an abortion and tries to ensure that the youth are given a fair chance where their opinion matters when it comes to their own body.