Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Pillars Project
Pillars Project
People
Eloise Durr, Sophie Sutton, Charlotte Burns,
Caye Kalbacher, Zoe Honigblum
Drug Abuse
Economic Impacts
$11 billion dollars in healthcare
- Rehabilitation
- Consequences of consumption of drugs
Environmental Impacts
Drugs hurt the planet in many ways….
-Deforestation
-Pollution
-Carbon emissions
-Water depletion
-Biodiversity loss
Environmental Example
- People often look at people who take drugs as animals but they are human and
need help.
Sources
“How Illicit Drug Use Affects Business and the Economy.” The White House,
obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/ondcp/ondcp-fact-sheets/how-illicit-drug-use-affects-business-and-the-economy#:~:text=economic%20costs&text=%24120%20billion%20in%20lost%20productiv
ity.
CDC. “Drug Overdose Deaths in the U.S. Top 100,000 Annually.” Www.cdc.gov, 17 Nov. 2021, www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2021/20211117.htm.
National Institute on Drug Abuse. “Opioid Overdose Crisis.” National Institute on Drug Abuse, 11 Mar. 2021, nida.nih.gov/drug-topics/opioids/opioid-overdose-crisis.
www.gatewayfoundation.org/addiction-blog/environmental-impact-growing-drugs/#:~:text=Drug%20production%20leaves%20its%20mark.
Abortion Laws
Economic Impact
● The cost of raising a child-
○ To raise a child to age 18 in America, it'll cost an average of $230,000, according
to Merrill Lynch report
○ 6/10 women who have an abortion are already a parent- cant afford another
child
● Abortion is increasingly concentrated among low-income women-
○ The Hyde Amendment, in effect since 1977, bans federal dollars from being
used for abortion coverage for women insured by Medicaid
○ Women who are low-income and lack insurance coverage for abortion often
struggle to come up with the money to pay for the procedure
Antiabortion
extremely successful
pursuing abortion
struggling financially
to access abortions.
The Hyde Amendment falls
disproportionately likely to be
program.
Cultural Impacts
● Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 8 into law on May 19, 2021
○ For people with a regular menstrual cycle, that’s just two weeks after a missed period
○ Doctors often won't see patients until a suspected 8 weeks of pregnancy just to confirm it.
○ It also takes time to decide to terminate a pregnancy, find a provider, and secure the funds.
○ Half of pregnancies are unplanned, even those trying rarely know before six weeks
○ SB 8 is different from other abortion bans because it contains a “private cause of action”
○ The court's failure to stop S.B. 8 also paved the way for other states to mimic Texas with similar
○ The 1973 Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade made access to safe and legal abortion a constitutional right
■ 36 million women, and others who can become pregnant, are at risk of losing abortion access
○ Could possibly lead to implications for other types of care including birth control, emergency contraception known as Plan B, trans-affirming healthcare, and fertility
treatments
○ The anti-abortion rights groups, Students for Life of America, (One of the leading pro-life advocacy organizations in the world), wants to recognize human life as
beggining at contreception
■ Think some devices and pills that can prevent implantation of a fertilized egg are "mislabeled" as contraception - Puts birth control at risk
■ Disagrees with American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists, which defines pregnancy as beginning at implantation
● Safety facts!
Abortion in the Lives of Women Struggling Financially: Why Insurance Coverage Matters
Guttmacher Institute
September 21, 2018
https://www.guttmacher.org/gpr/2016/07/abortion-lives-women-struggling-financially-why-insurance-coverage-matters
SB8
SB8 | Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, Inc.
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-gulf-coast/sb8
The impact of provider restrictions on abortion-related outcomes: a synthesis of legal and health evidence - Reproductive Health
BioMed Central
April 18, 2022
https://reproductive-health-journal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12978-022-01405-x
NPR Roe vs Wade Live updates
https://www.npr.org/live-updates/supreme-court-abortion-roe-wade-2022-05-05
THE LINK BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS AND
ABORTION pdf
https://www.jopafl.com/uploads/issue7/THE_LINK_BETWEEN_ENVIRONMENTAL_FACTORS_AND_ABORTION.pdf
NPR
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/11/1097666334/roe-birth-control
New York Times Roe vs Wade
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/11/opinion/roe-supreme-court-birth-control.html
Homelessness
Caye Kalbacher & Eloise Durr
Economic Impacts
The economic effects of homelessness are often overlooked but our government is forced to spend large
sums of money to take care of the homeless community and attempt to remedy what it’s doing to our
society.
● Government required to pay for housing for the homeless to move into
○ Housing Permits require lots of time and money
Culturally…
Environmentally…
https://ecobear.co/knowledge-center/impact-of-homeless-encampments-on-the-environment/
-American Security Project. “The Impact of Homelessness on Economic Competitiveness | ASP.” American Security Project, 1 May 2018,
https://www.americansecurityproject.org/impact-homelessness-economic-competitiveness/
-Ponio, Judy. “How Homelessness Affects Society.” Our Father’s House Soup Kitchen, 27 June 2021,
ofhsoupkitchen.org/how-homelessness-affects-society. https://ofhsoupkitchen.org/how-homelessness-affects-society
-Ponio, Judy. “Small Ways We Can Help End Homelessness.” Our Father’s House Soup Kitchen, 20 Apr. 2021,
ofhsoupkitchen.org/end-homelessness. https://ofhsoupkitchen.org/end-homelessness
- Ohanian, Lee. “The Economics of Why Homelessness Worsens as Governments Spend Even More on the Problem.” Hoover Institution, 18 June
2019, https://www.hoover.org/research/economics-why-homelessness-worsens-governments-spend-even-more-problem