The Mighty Spark

 3/24/25 Women's Sports and March Madness      March Madness has fallen upon us and like me, millions of others fill out brackets. I enjoy using the "MM Live" app to fill out a bracket and invite my friends and family into a group to start a friendly little competition. This year my friend and I have a wager that whoever has the better bracket gets a $10 Starbucks gift card. I always enjoy filling a bracket out in hopes of guessing the winner.       However, this year after filling out the men's bracket, I wanted to fill out a women's bracket too. I scoured the MM Live app and found nothing. The app does not have women's basketball listed. This is one of the many examples where women's sports, in this instance basketball, does not get the recognition it deserves.       Just recently women's sports have started to get more recognition and larger audiences, but the MM Live app is just another reminder we are not there yet.  ...

3/17/25  Women’s Reproductive Health  Our last group speaker did an amazing job at educating us about women’s reproductive health and health care. I learned that in Kentucky, abortion is not completely banned but rather falls under medically necessary. However, to define medically necessary and the point at which we believe a mother’s life is in danger, is the complexity.  The speaker shared a story of her sister in Tennessee having to get an abortion. The sister tried to schedule one but the doctor would not allow it because her life was not actively in danger. The sister had to come back for an abortion when she ran a fever. This is totally mind boggling to me because I wholeheartedly believe that health care is a human right but yet there are so many obstacles in this country. Why is it like this?  Another topic the speaker discussed is the narrative surrounding abortion services. Abortion services are seen as elective procedures but rather should be seen as true ...