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health in American women 's lives between the late 1800 's and early 1900 's are contraception and abortion. Both contraception and abortion would be a turning point for individual rights as well as medicine. Before the institution of medicine accepted birth control and abortion, women in general were regarded as housewives, child bearers and most served the local communities as midwives and healers to the sick. Even though midwives were highly regarded in their communities, their authority was…

These days, the morning after pill has many reasons. Some of these reasons are causing girls to have more sex. Many girls suffer more and more pregnancies each day. There is more and more pressure on girls these days about boys pressuring them to have sex. Sex is giving an advantage for girls to be using the morning after pill more now. The ability of this will increase dramatically, and will be easier on girls that are in school. The morning after pill is challenging because it can cause so…

such as contraceptives or birth control have been questioned and denied by the Catholic Church. According to Mr. Mitchell contraception or birth control means to stop conception or stop it from happening (Lange 33). Catholics say birth control should not be accepted and due to the fact that birth control is needed to reduce the possibility of an unplanned pregnancy, birth control practices are acceptable more than abortions, and some methods help protect one’s health. Birth control is needed…

Social Experiment: Defying a Norm For my social experiment I received consent from not only the Walgreens pharmaceutical manager but also the store manager to stand outside and ask a handful of customers walking in to purchase me an over-the-counter drug: Plan B One-Step pill. The nonprescription product: Plan B One-Step pill is a 1.5 mg tablet for women to take up to 72 hours after she had unprotected sex. One must be 17 years old to purchase the “morning after pill.” Note: I was not soliciting…

transform the practice of medicine throughout history, through reproductive rights, contraception and standards requiring pharmaceutical companies to provide information and side effects of drugs. The Pill has grown to be the leading type of birth control used in the United States. It is “the first, but also the most successful lifestyle drug in history,” (Tone, 320) transforming medical practice by changing cultural perceptions of labor and delivery, where and how childbirth occurred. It…

An awkward and valuable conversation with Great-Grandma Like my mother says every morning, "If you never try, you will never know", I decided for this assignment to talk with my Great-Grandma about Sexuality through FaceTime. She is 87 years old and Panamanian. She grew up in a conservative Catholic family and got married at her 18 years old. She has 8 children, one of them is my grandmother from my mother side. I chose her for the interview because I wanted to know what she thinks about…

regulations. The topic is debated by a strong uproar over religious beliefs and teaching. Birth control, puberty, and the explanation of how sex has evolved are a few topics also worth discussed in sex education. For instance, in the Catholic religion, birth control is heavily frowned upon. As believed, “Natural Law” is interrupted and disturbed by the act of sex without the sole purpose of procreation ("Tracts." Birth Control. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Oct. 2016.). Sexual pleasure is believed to be a…

reform, known as the birth control movement, in order to make contraception widely available so that women could limit the size of their families. I n “I Resolved that Women should have knowledge of Contraception,” Margaret Sanger describes women’s desperate efforts to limit their family size by attempting to prevent or eliminate pregnancy and their reasons behind doing so. Included was the story of her mother’s death, which was a major contributing factor in her desire for the birth control…

unconstitutional. In looking at the long term effects of family planning on the general public, several studies were conducted, starting in 1977 and repeated in 1981, 1990, and 1996 (Frost et. all, 2008) to determine how many women utilized family panning and birth control clinics across the United States, and analyze the effects these services have had on population control, the abortion rate, and pregnancy related costs. The results…

Teen pregnancy and early childbearing have had issues which have attracted a great deal of attention from service providers, educators, and policy makers over the years. There have been programs over the years to stop teen pregnancies. I have created a teen pregnancy prevention plan that includes: encouraging the community to come together, the youth needs assessment, programs, and evaluations, creating more activities for home and, or after school, and providing information on abstinence and…