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Imagine one night, you wake up to a phone call from your sister and she’s crying because she just took a pregnancy test and it came back positive. She was the child who didn’t do any wrong, but she would always sneak out and have sexual relations with people of the opposite sex. As a result of your parents not letting either one of you in a sexual education course, neither one of you know about the alternatives, so your sister feels that she has to keep the baby and her life is changed forever;…

Lately, teen pregnancy is similar to riding a bike, a normal obstacle in life. Becoming pregnant before twenty, is an epidemic that is affecting teens throughout the world. In 2014, a total of 249,078 babies were born to women aged 15–19 years, for a birth rate of 24.2 per 1,000 women (CDC). Unexpected teenage pregnancies are a challenge that gives young men and women difficult responsibilities. It is tough to balance school and raise a child while trying to have…

responsibility to provide government aid to help assist the underinsured and uninsured deal with the conflicts of pregnancy prevention or consequences of an unplanned pregnancy, as well as assisting with reproductive education, health screenings, and birth control. Those who are against the government providing funds to help the program Planned Parenthood, tend to be pro-life activist, who are against abortions. As a direct result of the arguments that have gone on for decades, the people and…

In the third chapter of Freakonomics, the question that is asked is “Why do drug dealers still live with their moms?” The first phrase that is brought up is “conventional wisdom,” and economist John Kenneth Galbraith describes this phrase as information that reinforces a single person's own type of interest and well-being. Conventional wisdom is convenient and comforting, but it does not necessarily have to be. It takes a lot for people to even begin to doubt that conventional wisdom is not true…

sterilization whereas in The Handmaid’s Tale they are trying to increase the population growth because of their infertility. In Gilead’s society, women are obligated to have children with men they do not care for and are forced to give them away at birth. Women are not only diminished to their fertility and ability to reproduce but they are also prohibited from thinking for themselves and using their bodies as they wish. They barely have any freedoms and their lives are limited to going to the…

The key arguments of Feminist Issues: Race, Class, and Sexuality Pages one hundred eighty-five to one hundred ninety and the last forty-five minutes of the film Status Quo are people need to change their perception of what women’s abortion rights should be, there must be universal childcare that is affordable and easy to access and that gender is a performance that men commonly use and is different for men of different race and disability. The argument that people must have respect for others…

Abortion techniques were developed as early as 1550 BC, as it gets to practice on Greece and Rome. It was unregulated and often unsafe for doing that. In the United States, it is legal to abort a baby up until the day of birth. An abortion is the ending of a pregnancy before birth which results in the deaths of an embryo or a fetus. Countless people consider abortion as cruel as murder. After many decades of the U.S Supreme Courts’ Roe v.Wade decision, there are a lot of much debate over whether…

weeks and 31 weeks, it is found that those born at 22 weeks only have less than 10% chance of survival, while those at 31 weeks have almost a 100% percent chance of survival (Slattery & Morrison, 2002). This information shows that the closer a preterm birth gets to full term, the more likely the child is to survive without defects. It also represents that the further away from full term you get, the more likely the child born is to have defects, due to not being able to develop properly. It is…

The Importance of Planned Parenthood and Funding Sometime in your life, you have probably heard of Planned Parenthood, but how much do you really know about it? The public needs to be more aware of what kind of services Planned Parenthood offers. Planned Parenthood is a, “private, non-profit provider of medical services related to family planning, men and women’s sexual health, and abortions” (Ramelb 510). Its services focus on preventative health care. Many people oppose funding for Planned…

Life with Four Brothers In the Eldridge household, there are five children. I am the oldest of those children. I am also the only girl, because there is only one other option of gender (not counting the ones society tries to push on us, none of my siblings think they are cats or anything of that nature) this means all my siblings are boys. This also means I am one of two girls in the entire house. Having a two to five ratio of girls to boys the house gets a little hectic, and when I say gets a…