Hot Button Issues:

 

 

  1. Abortion
  2. Affirmative Action
  3. Alternatives to Childbearing: Surrogate Motherhood, Transracial Adoption
  4. Animal Rights/ Endangered Species
  5. Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia
  6. Bilingual Education
  7. Bioethics/Biotechnology/Cloning/Stem-Cell Research
  8. Capital Punishment
  9. Censorship
  10. Civil Liberties/Privacy: Phone Taping, No-Fly List, Profiling
  11. Anti-Terrorism Measures/Police/Military Interrogation– Torture, Detention, Profiling. Interrogation
  12. Creationism/Evolution
  13. Displacement of Minorities/Nat. Americans, Bejing, Japanese American Internment
  14. Dress Codes in School
  15. Drug Legalization: Marijuana, Human Growth Hormone, Steroids, alcohol, smoking…
  16. Drug Testing
  17. Free Speech
  18. Freedom of the Press
  19. Gay Rights: Gay Parents, Gays in the Military, Gay Marriage
  20. Global Warming/Environmental Issues

 

 

  1. Gun Control/Right to Bear Arms (Second Amendment)
  2. Hate Crimes/Hate Speech
  3. Health Care Reform/Universal Health Care
  4. Home Schooling
  5. Human Rights - Female Genital Mutilation/Declaration of Human Rights
  6. Immigration
  7. Legal Drinking Age
  8. Media Bias
  9. Minimum Wage
  10. Nuclear and Hazardous Waste
  11. Rights of People with Disabilities
  12. Separation of Church and State
  13. Sex Education
  14. Sex Industry – prostitution, adult movies, clubs, pornography
  15. Standardized Testing
  16. Teenage Pregnancy
  17. Violence in the Media
  18. War in Iraq/Conscientious Objectors
  19. Women in the Military
  20. Working Mothers
  21. Year Round School