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health in American women 's lives between the late 1800 's and early 1900 's are contraception and abortion. Both contraception and abortion would be a turning point for individual rights as well as medicine. Before the institution of medicine accepted birth control and abortion, women in general were regarded as housewives, child bearers and most served the local communities as midwives and healers to the sick. Even though midwives were highly regarded in their communities, their authority was…

In United States, nearly half of all pregnancies each year (approximately 3 million) are unintended. More than half of all American women will have experienced an unintended pregnancy by age 45. 3 in 10 will have had an abortion. In 2013, there were 67 million women of reproductive age (13-44) in U.S, and more than half of them needed some form of contraceptive service or supplies. For the past two decades, women increasingly rely on publicly funded clinics especially the poor, uninsured,…

time is that women who become teenage mothers are more at risk to suffer from, “Poor educational attainment and weak attachment to the labor force, low earning, and reliance on public assistance, marital instability and single parenthood, additional births, large family size, and poor health outcomes during and after pregnancy.” (Furstenberg, 2003) In an additional article titled, Education and Labor Market Consequences of teenage Childbearing written by Jason M. Fletcher and Barbara Wolfe, it…

until late teens which limited number of early pregnancies. In 1900’s, the changes in law resulted in decreased rate of early marriage and pregnancy, until 1940s to 1960s when rate of teens pregnancy drastically increased (to about 70-80 births per 1000). In 1970s to 1990s, with girls reaching puberty in an younger age and increased numbers of people postponing marriage (due to increasing divorce rate, reliable contraceptive methods, seeking education) more single females become mothers. While…

Birth order refers to the order a child is born within a family, which is always ranked by a person’s age from oldest to youngest. Although, birth order is out of our control many people believe that ordinal positions within family can affect everything including careers choice and determines your success. Many people have a conception that first-borns are high achievers and more motivated than later borns because first-borns are thought to be academically oriented in many instances. Boden,…

still struggle to have full control of their own bodies. As Adrienne Rich said (Of Women Born):"Women are controlled by lashing us to our bodies." The theme of women being lashed to their bodies has been evident in America from the 1800’s until the 1970’s, as women have fought to gain the right to their own bodies and is still evident today as women continue to battle against patriarchal control of their bodies by the government and media. In…

contraceptives has captured the attention of society today. Viable international statistics reveal that the United States ranks first among all other countries with the highest number of births resulting from teenage pregnancy in the late twentieth century. Within the United States, approximately 750,000 births occur among young female adolescents; furthermore, another 80% of those pregnancies claim to be unintentional. Even though these statistics convey an alarming impression of society today,…

contraception, there are many different forms; such as condoms, birth control pills, diaphragms, or implants. But it is the birth control pill that is one of the most popular when it comes to types of contraception. There are both benefits and disadvantages to taking birth control. Benefits include it lowers the risk of endometrial and ovarian cancer, normalizes irregular periods, lightens menstrual bleeding, and treats acne. (. Disadvantages to birth control include side effects such as…

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…

Abortion is a medical process of ending a pregnancy so it does not result in the birth of a baby. Women that have abortions could either be married or single and/or either wants the abortion or just persuaded to get one from family members, friends or the father of the baby. This procedure could either be done through surgery or by taking medication; depending on how long the woman has been pregnant. According to Martin Luther King, Jr., “nothing in all the world is more dangerous than…