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is where a women would find a rough end of a coat hanger and stick it into her cervix. Even when done “correctly” it is unlikely the abortion would take. The coat hanger is really just introducing infection into the vagina and the fetus. During the 1950s-1960s the number of illegal abortions that occurred ranged from 200,000 to 1.2 million per year. Prior to Roe vs. Wade as many as 5,000 American women died annually as a direct result of unsafe abortions. That’s what you have to think about in…

The first hormonal birth control pill, Enovid, was approved by the Federal Drug Administration in 1690. Hormonal contraceptives work by combining estrogen, the female sexual hormone, and progestin, a derivative of progesterone that prevents ovulation, together to inhibit ovulation and create an inhabitable cervical environment for both sperm and embryos. Therefore, oral contraceptives effectively block the fertility cycle by not allowing sperm to meet an egg or implantation of a fertilized fetus…

the only way to prevent pregnancy. What is hard to understand is why the parents think that if you teach them that how to use birth control, it encourages teens to have sex. That is completely wrong to educate is not to encourage. Sure, abstaining is one way to prevent having a child, but there are so many other ways to prevent it. There are so many different types of birth control…

precautions to prevent the birth of a child. Although these individuals like to believe that birth control will one hundred percent prevent you from getting pregnant, but this is certainly not the case. The one true form of contraception from pregnancy is abstinence, but today abstinence is being seen less in individuals in their teen years to the time they begin to settle down. This begins the hot debate of who should be using birth control, male or female. Male birth control has been a wide…

adoptee and her or his birth parents, that they will lose their child to the birth parents because the child will not love them as much as the birth parents. Some adoptive parents also worry that contact will be harmful to their child, that there will be the risk of a negative influence or of developing a negative self-image if the birthparent is an alcoholic or sexually promiscuous (Fisanick 11). Feelings of regret about the adoption decision are another issue with open adoption. Birth parents…

the National Organization for Women headed by Betty Friedan (4, NOW, “Statement of Purpose”). The NOW accrued over five thousand members by 1973. These members worked closely on court cases, advocating for pro-equality laws including abortion, and birth control rights. Because the Women’s Movement was so powerful, by the mid-1960’s, two-thirds of jobs were going to women (5, Tavaana, “Breaking Down Barriers of Women”). This meant women were…

restrictions lifted slightly, "with the inception of the Social Defense Code in 1938, induced abortion became permissible in three situations", which were danger to the mother's life, presence of fetal birth defects, and when the pregnancy was the result of rape" (Bélanger and Flynn 15). However, by the late 1950s the laws were not strictly enforced and therefore women could access illegal abortions easily (Hollerbach 100). Moreover, as was the case in Chile the danger associated with…

to septic abortion. For women who do choose to continue the pregnancy, the presence of an IUD in the uterus can cause various complications in addition to miscarriage, including infection, stillbirth, premature delivery, and the delivery of a low birth weight infant according to the article “Intrauterine…

Circumcision is a huge debate in the United States. Circumcision has been happening as early as 1914, but in the 1950s the number of babies getting circumcised jumped from about 50% to 90%. Circumcision can be performed for religious, cultural or medical reasons. Circumcision is the surgical removal of the foreskin covering the tip of the penis typically done in the newborn stage, circumcision after the newborn stage is still possible but is a more complex procedure. About 30% of the world is…

Providing Sex Education in public schools will help reduce unwanted pregnancies and the spread of Sexually Transmitted Diseases. In todays over sex society, where sex is used to sell products to teenagers from magazines to TV dramas on the CW. Teens not only see sex used to sell products they also talk about sex with their friends and fellow class mates on a daily basis. So then why are teenagers getting a limited education on sex? Teens are going to talk about sex, they are children growing up.…