Birth control

Hugh V. McLachlan tackles this question in his piece “Bodies, Rights, and Abortion” where he contends the idea of not owning one’s body simply because others say that you cannot. McLachlan mentions : “that talk of ownership of one’s person rather than of one’s body is absurd. A person cannot be distinguished here from what the person is being said to own,” hence displaying how unethical and enological it is for women in America to be expected to adhere to the laws that are not made to benefit…

Abortion and teen pregnancy rates go hand in hand. This is a topic that many try to avoid discussing, due to the broad range of strong opinions that many people have on taking away an unborn life. This being said, if you unexpectedly got pregnant, would or could you ever think of abortion as being a solution? The United States Supreme Court's decision on making abortion a constitutional right has made an enormous impact on these rates. Teen pregnancy has been a controversial topic for…

Research by Kearney and Levine (2014) supports that “The magnitude of the 16 and Pregnant effect is substantial. Our estimates indicate that the introduction of this series led to a 5.7 percent decline in the teen birth rate. This effect can explain a third of the decline in teen births in the 18 months after the show was introduced.” This fact of research clears up any misconceptions or judgments about people who argued about its intentions. Whether the objective of the show is to glorify teen…

Contraceptives in High School My mom was a teen mom, pregnant at the age fifteen and a freshman in high school. She struggled a lot through school with a baby so she had to drop out to take care of him. She was living with her boyfriend, who went to work while she watched her baby. It wasn 't easy for her especially because later in her life her boyfriend passed away, so it made things even more difficult. She now had three kids already and pregnant with one, remind you she was only…

Contraception takes up 34% of Planned Parenthood (Planned Parenthood). For women, they have emergency contraception kits and reversible contraception such as long lasting methods like IUD’s and birth control implants. Planned Parenthood provides vasectomies for men. Approximately 41% of Planned Parenthood facilities contain STI/STD testing and treatment. This includes HPV treatments, HIV tests, and other treatment for men and women (Planned Parenthood)…

about it, deal with diverse cultures [and] manage all the overt silliness that accompanies such a tricky, delicate, complex area” (Cosslett). If not handled correctly, teaching a class on sexual education can be next to impossible, as it’s hard to control a class if everyone’s…

If you were able to prevent a pregnancy with Plan B when you were fifteen, would you have had unprotected sex? The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reducing the minimum age required to purchase Plan B to 15-years-old will cause other issues to rise as they watch teen pregnancy rates fall. Young teens without proper education will choose to use Plan B instead of condoms as protection from pregnancy without realizing they can contract sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). If most teens do not…

Teen Pregnancy in Mississippi Teen pregnancy in Mississippi is at a higher percentage than any other state in the U.S. Parents, teacher, and teenagers should be more concerned with teen in Mississippi being pregnant. Teens being pregnant affect more than them; they affect the people are them. There are many solutions to teens getting pregnant, such as: abstinence from sex, protection during sex, and sex education in schools. According to Gibson, “11.8 percent of Mississippi high school students…

Over the years women have been seen as a man’s property. A man has always known that his perceived natural rights entail a wife, her body, children, and a job. Essentially a twisted form of the American Dream right, but what if the clock is sped up to when women start gaining the confidence to fight for their rights? History has witnessed women gaining the right to vote, the ability to work alongside men, and to have their own house without a husband. For the next century women slowly gained…

As the years go on teens seem to be getting into all sorts of trouble. Experimenting with drugs, dealing with bullying, discovering depression. Anxiety and sex. Teenage pregnancy isn 't just a thing in a far away place. It has became a grim reality that strikes the homes of thousands. Certain factors can play a large part in the way teens handle sexual situations with another person. Things such as race, ethnicity and economics may be a reason why more girls of one side of the track may seem to…