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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…

Introduction Sex education is something that is part of one’s life through their entire life. People’s bodies grow and change every day, and learning about the processes that take place is essential to maintaining good health throughout one’s life. Sadly, many people all over the world today are misinformed when it comes to sex education because of the lack of resources, overly vague information, politics, or the fact that sex education isn’t something that is approached in an accurate manner…

reduce the overpopulation and the HIV epidemic. Another cultural challenge would be early age marriages, one of the leading causes of teenage pregnancy as well as death. Due to many children already being “malnourished” girls cannot afford to give birth, it would cause too much stress on their bodies and result in death. As mentioned before giving women a proper education can help decide their own informed decisions and being able to prepare themselves when put in such…

Abortion should be a part of a country’s contraception policy. People should plan their families and society must allow women to end unwanted pregnancies in order to deal with failures of birth control, cases of rape and cases of incest. Abortion should be legalized but discouraged. Legal, because it is a choice; discouraged because there are other more effective ways to prevent pregnancy than abortion. Abortion is all about allowing a woman to make her own decisions, in relation to her…

A woman is said to be a “life giver”, but yet most women in today’s societies are having abortions. “Abortion is the act of removing a human embryo or fetus from the uterus of a pregnant woman prior to the completion of the full term of pregnancy” (Rich and Geraldine 1). Abortion should remain illegal. In just 5 weeks of a pregnancy cycle, the fetus has a heartbeat. In most cases, some women do not know that they are pregnant by then. Even if she finds out she is in the first trimester,…