Asexual reproduction

What is a decision? A decision is something one makes between two or more things or even between going somewhere and not going. Decisions help people go through life each day. An example of a decision is to have an abortion or to give life to a baby. This is the decision that Jig and the American are faced with. A decision can be influenced by a relative, significant other, friend, or even a place. Jig is unsure on what she wants to do but the American wants an abortion and views the baby as a…

A couple of weeks ago, Professor Baasten asked the class, “Do you want to have a child?” and followed up with, “Why?” The lecture went on, explaining the different reasons why people want to have children despite it being an irrational act, and he even allowed us to explain our own take as to why we wanted to have children. However, we then talked about when people are physically unable to have children – infertility. Many talk about how wonderful children are, yet some are not able to…

We live in a day and time where anything is possible and if you believe it you can achieve it. In April of 2008, a man from Hawaii named Thomas Beatie came out to the public as the first pregnant man. Although this shocked the world for months and was difficult for many people to accept and understand, we can look back at documents from the past that show the idea has actually been conceived before. In 1606, a news pamphlet titled “Portrait of a Monster” came out alleging that a man gave birth…

THE INCREASED BIOPOLITICAL CONTROL OF WOMEN’S BODIES THROUGH REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE REGULATION; AN INTERSECTIONAL ANALYSIS. Recently proposed laws that enact abortion and reproductive health care regulation have been marked as safety precautions in order to protect the health of women. However, these laws do not consider which groups are most often impacted by their enactment, and what the consequences of said enactment may be. If clinics in low income neighborhoods cannot meet…

(Abell et al., 2013). Similarly, fish have developed numerous social, reproductive, and predatory behaviours that make them well adapted to various conditions. For example, observing reproductive behaviours of hermaphroditic reef fishes found that reproduction methods are species dependant, though there are similarities and overlaps (Petersen, 1987). In a study of Serranus faciatus, Petersen (1987) found that all individuals have fully functional gonads of both sexes (simultaneous hermaphrodite)…

constantly spread their genes to have a more efficient impact on the populace. The average lifespan is 70 years old in a conventional method so genetic offspring comes into the frame. Since life expectancy is low for humans they rely on sexual reproduction to pass on their traits to the next generation. It is in our nature to reproduce and survive and by having sexual relations with multiple individuals we have a greater chance of staying in the general gene pool. By doing this process it is a…

not when she sets older; but on the other hand a man can age all he wants and pick any woman he wants. The point of this brief passage from Lysistrata between the Commissioner and Lysistrata is to show the different ways that men and women viewed reproduction at that time. Lets…

Life, it 's a beautiful thing the Lord has granted us with, but there are confusions about when exactly life begins. Is it when we are born? Is it at some point during our creation inside our mother? Or is it at the exact point of fertilization when the sperm meets the egg? These are questions that all humans struggle with. The question of when life begins also, in turn, begs the question of abortion. When a woman terminates a pregnancy, is she getting rid of just a mass of unwanted cells or is…

Unlike the modern definition of friends with benefits, friends with benefits have many forms of friendships and the benefits are more than just sex. From a reciprocal altruism point of view: reproductive and survival costs and benefits of opposite-sex and same sex friendships can be observed in humans. As our ancestors have lived in the past, without friendship certain tasks or social life would be difficult because a friend can provide fitness relevant benefits to us in several ways such as…

The morality of abortion is an argument that has spanned decades with debates on both sides as to whether or not it is right to kill a fetus that is not yet born. Even today, there is still no set motion that humanity follows as a whole, and they have been labelled as being either ‘pro-choice’ or ‘pro-life’ following in their own beliefs as to what is right. There are even many articles, essays, and journals today which exist to validate the point of each of these sides. Many have attempted to…