American Birth Control League

beginning of the article stating that, “The state of Texas’ sustained campaign against Planned Parenthood and other family planning clinics affiliated with abortion providers appears to have led to an increase in births among low-income women who lost access to affordable and effective birth control, a new study says”(2016). The disparities in these organizational approaches is to build a relationship between the author and reader in different discourse communities (Hyland…

that having a wife and a daughter helps a man have a personal stake in women`s issues. I agree hold heartedly that employers should not have the right for religious reasons to make choices for their employers and every women must have access to birth control if that is what they choose best for themselves. I loved Ruth`s explanation that one can enjoy freedom of religion until it affects others who don’t share your religious beliefs. I enjoyed this article/film and thought it was…

One of the women, whom will remain anonymous, shared a tremendously touching story on this website. “When [she] had [her] son 14 years ago [she] had a cardiac episode. It left [her] heart weak. When [her] son was just under 2 years old [her] birth control failed. [She] was pregnant. Being pregnant started sending [her] blood pressure really…

On an average, according to UNICEF, 353,000 babies are born daily around the world, that makes it about 127,750,000 babies every year. Many of these children are given well lovely homes with parents who love them, but there are others who are abandoned and often sent to orphanages. Some in poorer countries are often left exposed to nature without the love of a parent, without feeling nurture, this being the same scenario in the novel Frankenstein. The story starts out with a curious young Victor…

Today, sex is a much talked about subject, and roughly half of high school students participate in the act. Today the value of ‘saving one’s self for marriage’ is dated and carried out by few, but in ‘The Chrysanthemums’ by John Steinbeck, this ideal is presented to an extreme. Steinbeck begins the story by painting a descriptive picture of the Salinas Valley and describes it as “a time of quiet and waiting”. The story then introduces us to two of the main characters, Elisa and her husband,…

In Meg Elisons, Book of the Unnamed Midwife, a deadly fever takes most of the women and children of the world's population, Karen was one of the few females to survive. In the male dominated world, change was required in order to have protection and survive. Karen had to change her life from a sophisticated nurse to a barbaric way of living, disguise herself, and move frequently to protect herself and survive. Karen was quickly introduced to the new barbaric lifestyle she would have after she…

and I feel it is appropriate at that time to share more details about sexuality. Nonetheless, people and families should be more comfortable with discussing sex because it is such a big part of our society and personal lives. “From the moment of birth to the day we die, we are all sexual beings” (King:…

The first menstruation, got “on the same day of the month as the other girls, […] all synchronized in their lunar rhythms” (Eugenides), is Cecilia’s body signal that she is biologically mature and able to bear pregnancy. She approaches womanhood and gets closer to the characteristics of a harlot, consequently further from a young and immaculate virgin. The blood is also inherently connected with defloration, in many cultures an indicator of becoming a sexually active woman, thus becoming a…

population in South Africa. This made conservationists worried, so they relocated and established reserves for elephants but by doing so they increased the elephant population too much. Now scientists have come to the conclusion, that in order to control this rapid increase in elephants they will have to use contraception…

POLICIES OF OTHER COUNTRIES : The Family Planning Association of Hong Kong was an organisation which brought forth sex education, family planning advice and birth control services to the citizens of Hong Kong. When the population started to increase, it launched a campaign. This campaign was called the “Two is Enough” campaign through which the birth rate was decreased with the help of educational ways.The total fertility rate too, is low.The authorities in Iran as well encourage families not…