16 and Pregnant

Adolescents, a teenage boy or girl, do have the right to make a medical decision depending on their age and the situation. Us teenagers go through an efficient amount of events in this specific stage of life, this adolescent stage is used for growth spurts and puberty changes. Though the changes with puberty, sexual maturation, may occur gradually. By adolescents going through this specific stage in life sexual intercourse may be involved with many. Adolescents range from the age of ten to the…

fact that teens are actually using it. From the article “Impact of Sex Education On Pregnancy Examined,” the author Mary Breaden states that “students who were taught a comprehensive sex education curriculum had a 50 percent lower risk of getting pregnant or impregnating someone than students who had received an abstinence-only education or no sex education at all” (Breaden). Regardless, if a teen is sexually active or not, educating them about birth control options and the proper technique of…

justice and contraception in the United States. The New York Education Law, section 6811(8) makes it a crime for “(1) any person to sell or distribute any contraceptive of any kind to a minor under the age of 16; (2) for anyone other than a licensed pharmacist to distribute contraceptives to anyone 16 or over; and (3) for anyone, including a licensed pharmacist, to advertise or display contraceptives.” (Carey v. Population, 1977) Considering this law, Hugh Carey the 51st governor of New York and…

disease, and it is very common in children under the age of fifteen. However, it might be developed in any age. Moreover, chickenpox is an infectious disease which caused by the varicella-zoster virus. It could be a serious disease particularly in pregnant women and people with a weakened immune system. Since it is a serious illness, it has noticeable symptoms and complications that appear on an infected person, yet it can be healed in several ways. Chickenpox has specific classic symptoms…

decisions she has to make when she finds out she is pregnant. It is a huge responsibility to make the decision to have a child, to give your child up for adoption or to decide to abort your child; no matter the age. Teen parents are put into little stereotypes based on what people think they know about them, or what they have heard. I chose this topic because two of my sisters were teen parents, my other sister chose abortion and a lot of my friends got pregnant at a young age. I wanted to see…

living human being because it takes up to 16-17 weeks before the baby is considered fully alive. Even though most people think that having an abortion is…

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Doing drugs while pregnant makes the baby lose weight. “Also if the mom of the child has a STD it can be passed down to the child if there is a vaginal birth”(Health and human services 1) .The sentence says that doing drugs while pregnant will make the baby smaller . The quote states that if teen has an STD the baby is most likely to have it too. Most teens learn about STIs and…

national origin, physical or mental disability, and age. Roxanne, who is 28, experienced wage discrimination first hand. When Roxanne realized her company was paying her less money than the men who had her job before she did, possibly because she was pregnant. The first thing she did was confront her boss. The situation didn’t go to well because she was a woman, and men’s first reaction is to put women in their place. The government attempted to…

Yet, they do not have to subject themselves to the many hurdles of intrusive testing and questioning like a Medicaid recipient with an “unruly body” does (Bridges 2011: 16, 65). This is as far as the state and society will reach into their pregnancy and where the image of a pregnant woman changes. When comparing the two images of a woman who is privately insured compared to a woman on Medicaid, poverty amongst other adjectives are used to distinguish women on Medicaid. With…