Megan Wong, Author at Sampan

Megan Wong

Health August 10, 2022 0

A Healthcare Clinician and a Community Provider Fear for the America’s Women

Across the country, many people have been outraged by the U.S Supreme Court’s recent decision in overturning Roe v. Wade, an almost 50 year precedent. In the Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women’s Health Organization decision, the Court ruled that “the Constitution of the United States does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives. Abortion was first legalized throughout the United States in […]

Front Page July 26, 2022 0

Canadians See the US as an Example of What Happens When Guns are Not Heavily Regulated

[Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of SAMPAN interviews with people living in countries with strict gun laws] Just a week after the Uvalde shooting in the United States, Canada is one country that has strengthened their gun laws. If you compare the two, just north of the border, the public mindset and policies on firearms in Canada are vastly different from that of the United States. So what separates the two in terms of gun policy? […]

Front Page July 11, 2022 0

Sampan Interviews Former Government Official About Gun Violence in Haiti

[Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of SAMPAN interviews with people living in countries with strict gun laws.] Recent devastating mass shootings in the United States have yet again brought the issue of gun violence to the limelight. In 2022 alone, the Gun Violence Archive has counted more than 250 mass shootings in the United States. The director of the US. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has even come out to say that gun violence in […]

Front Page June 29, 2022 0

Do I Feel Safe Without Guns? Living in countries with strict gun controls

This is the first in a series of articles in which I am speaking with people from several countries where gun laws are more restrictive. I wanted to explore how they felt living in their countries. This story is about China. With a population of approximately 1.4 billion, China has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the world. As a result, it has (at 49.7 million) the third lowest number of guns in the world. I interviewed Yang, […]

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