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    There are different methods for birth control such as abstinence, medications, birth control sponges, IUD, sterilization, and condoms. Contraceptives are prescribed by doctors in clinics, hospitals, and in local community health departments that support family planning. Some are non-based prescriptions which are obtained over the counter. Some oral contraceptives offers certain gynecological health benefits to reduce abnormal uterine cramping and irregular menstrual…

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    There are several causes of high blood pressure (Hypertension) some of which we do not have any direct control over, and yet we can still modify the effects of these factors by ensuring that we pay attention to the things that we do have some control, over. I will discuss both kinds on this page so that by the end you know exactly the kind of things you can easily change to reduce the risks associated with high blood pressure, and you know the things that you cannot change so easily and yet can…

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    Contraceptives v. the Church Throughout the years, medicine has advanced. The advancement of medicine has significantly benefited today 's society. However, advancements in medicine 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…

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    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 customers because I was granted permission. Hypothesis I think females will purchase Plan B for me with less hesitations…

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    In the early 20th century, Margaret Sanger began a major 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…

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    However, Goldin’s article ‘The Power of the Pill’, the introduction of oral contraceptives for women in the early 1960s had profound social and economic consequences. The article explores the connection between the increase of amount of women graduates around 1970 and the rise of marriage age after 1972 and how exactly these events were influenced by the spread of oral contraceptives. The main question of the paper was whether the birth control pill and the legislation that enabled young women…

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    Hormonal Birth Control

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    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…

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    after I left Kevin and his friends, I started having a sick-feeling but I could not describe what was wrong. I did not want to feel this way, it was a terrible feeling. I remembered that I still had a bag of those pills Kevin had given me that made me feel amazing. I took one of the pills and I felt great…

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    whole. List 5 different types of birth control. There are several types of birth control available: There are birth control patches, pills, sponges, vaginal rings, implants, and IUD`s. Please explain the difference between contraceptives used for birth control only and contraceptives used to prevent the spread of STDs. The birth control pill, for instance, might prevent unwanted pregnancies but does nothing to protect you from contracting a sexually transmitted disease…

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    Elephant In The Room Essay

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    Source A- The elephant in the room: How contraception could save future elephants from culling By- Rose Eveleth Web address- Rose Eveleth . 2011. The elephant in the room: How contraception could save future elephants from culling . [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-elephant-in-the-room/. [Accessed 05 February 16]. Summary of evidence- In the 1900’s poaching threatened to wipe out the elephant population in South Africa. This made conservationists worried, so…

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