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There was a situation where I had chosen to advocate for women, especially women of color. A few years ago there was a law that was passed on abortion rights in Arkansas. It shortened the amount of weeks a mother could decide to proceed with an abortion. Many of my coworkers, who were women, were surprisingly not against this new law. It was difficult to explain how this one law could have adverse effects for women of color. I tried to explain that by having a child places a woman closer to the…

In the world today, abortion takes place every second of every day. However, there are two different points of views. Those that agree and of course that do disagree. Since about 1973 around 53 million women have aborted. Every year there are approximately 1.2 million abortions just in the U.S., well around there have been 20-30 million legal abortions, but there have also been 10-20 million illegal abortions. A lot of people say that life begins when you start developing inside of your mother…

Chapter Six of our textbook, Understanding Human Behavior was filled with information based on “Biological Development in Adolescence” (as the title of the chapter was even titled). In this chapter I personally found it all to be interesting, and full of information from physical changes an adolescent faces to how sexual activity/prevention. Adolescences go through a lot of changes, not only physically, but psychologically, and socially. These changes are never experienced the same from one…

This title implies that there are negative relationships between Tylenol and pregnancy (most likely drug abuse or the side effects). The implicit thesis of this article is that all pregnant women should be knowledgeable of the side effects that can possibly stem from Tylenol. The context of this article is that due to the severe effects of other over the counter drugs during pregnancy, Tylenol is the only other choice. The author begins the article with a dialogue to explain the purpose of the…

1. International Union v Johnson Controls, Inc. 2. The defendant Johnson Controls, Inc. is being sued by the plaintiff International Union for the practice of excluding females from battery manufacturing jobs due to the high lead exposure levels. The high lead level within the process of manufacturing batteries has been linked to health risk that can harm any fetus carried by a female employee. Prior to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 the defendant did not employ women in the battery manufacturing…

women's healthcare decisions, the Honolulu community turns to gynecologist Gary T. Kimoto MD for expert medical advice and compassionate care. A comprehensive OB-GYN practice, OB-GYN Associates offers a variety of women's healthcare services including birth control for women, help dealing the issues like endometriosis and infertility, as well as hysterectomy. This serious procedure is one of the most common surgeries women face, second only to cesarean sections. Being informed of the pros…

William Daubert, his wife and two children filed a petition to the Supreme Court of the United States against Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals. The petitioners alleged that birth defects caused in their two children were due to the side effects of a Bendectin, a prescription anti-nausea drug, ingested by the mother during pregnancy. The respondent produced 30 published research papers involving 130,000 patients and a testimony from a credentialed epidemiologist stating that this drug had no links…

authors surmise that women from Europe, China and other East Asian countries could place a different value on the “two-earner family model” than those from India, Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere. Even though the economists found variations in the birth rates of immigrant women based on their education, they say that “in the long run … both educated and uneducated immigrants have approximately 20 per cent higher fertility than their native-born reference groups.” The findings of Ferrer…

Dating violence is one of the largest growing problems in the country today. According to the Center for Disease Control, dating violence is now the leading cause of injury to women. This is a problem that is growing rapidly; however there are ways to alleviate some of the problem. Dating violence and abuse is not exclusively for adults, it is common amongst teenagers, as sixty percent of teenage girls know at least one person who has been the victim of abuse. The majority of times, young girls…

Abortion: The termination of a pregnancy before birth, resulting in the death of the fetus. As horrendous and controversial as this is; it is still the right of every woman. The right to decide whether or not to continue a pregnancy. The issue of abortion is one of the most controversial issues ever proposed in the United States. Controversial as it may be, it is still the right of every woman to decide whether or not she wants to continue a pregnancy. This became a highly…