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on hormonal birth control including the oral combination pills, hormonal IUD, Norplant, Nexplanon (implant) and Depo- Provera, which consist either of a combination or single set dosage of estrogen and/ or synthetic progesterone, progestin. The biological effects of these hormonal birth controls on the female body includes preventing ovulation, thickening the cervical fluid, and inhibiting implantation due to the thinner lining of the endometrium. While there are other types of birth control…

These days, the morning after pill has many reasons. Some of these reasons are causing girls to have more sex. Many girls suffer more and more pregnancies each day. There is more and more pressure on girls these days about boys pressuring them to have sex. Sex is giving an advantage for girls to be using the morning after pill more now. The ability of this will increase dramatically, and will be easier on girls that are in school. The morning after pill is challenging because it can cause so…

such as contraceptives or birth control have been questioned and denied by the Catholic Church. According to Mr. Mitchell contraception or birth control means to stop conception or stop it from happening (Lange 33). Catholics say birth control should not be accepted and due to the fact that birth control is needed to reduce the possibility of an unplanned pregnancy, birth control practices are acceptable more than abortions, and some methods help protect one’s health. Birth control is needed…

Social Experiment: Defying a Norm For my social experiment I received consent from not only the Walgreens pharmaceutical manager but also the store manager to stand outside and ask a handful of customers walking in to purchase me an over-the-counter drug: Plan B One-Step pill. The nonprescription product: Plan B One-Step pill is a 1.5 mg tablet for women to take up to 72 hours after she had unprotected sex. One must be 17 years old to purchase the “morning after pill.” Note: I was not soliciting…

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…

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…