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    pregnant there are many stages of fertilization. Which include the first, second, ad third trimester. This happens within the nine months of pregnancy. Sperm meets eggs. During the cycle one or two follicles release an egg and then it goes into the fallopian tube. One sperm will penetrate the egg and mix their genetic material. The sperm and egg contain 23 chromosomes. That determines all the child's information. With 24 hours of fertilization the egg is now a zygote. It divides into two cells.…

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    or having one’s ‘tubes tied’ (Stoppler C, 2014). “Side effects of tubal ligation may include infection, bleeding (hemorrhage), and any effects or complications associated with being under general anesthesia” (Stoppler C, 2014). For disabled patients, undergoing a procedure like this could be extremely dangerous. Another danger is the procedure itself going wrong. “When women get pregnant after being sterilized, about 1 out of 3 has a pregnancy that develops in a fallopian tube. This is called…

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    “It was an early miscarriage. Then, six months later, I had an ectopic pregnancy in my right fallopian tube. My third pregnancy was three months later. That one made it to my uterus, and I had a positive pregnancy test. But at eight weeks, there was no heartbeat. We decided to see a specialist because we thought we needed a little science.” After researching…

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    can be damaged — damage that may go unnoticed until she is far into a later, wanted pregnancy and the muscles give way in a miscarriage. The injuries caused by the vacuum that pulls out the fetus hurts the cervix and rips it. When it scar the fallopian tubes it allows sperm to travel to to the egg. The egg then cannot leave the uterus, which leads to another abortion because the uterus is too small to carry the fetus in a wanted pregnancy. Many women grieve silently, their sorrow ignored by a…

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    sterilization. Despite those two being the most popular, there are many other forms available for women. For example, many women get intrauterine devices, also known as IUDs, implanted into their uterus to block the male’s sperm from entering their fallopian tubes and fertilizing the eggs. Women may also use vaginal rings, birth control shots, birth control patches, and the most preventable method of pregnancy, abstinence (Jones, Mosher, Daniels 2010). Although contraception is widely used…

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    Abortion Pro Life

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    many dangers to abortion. Risks include, but are not limited to, a cut or torn cervix, a higher risk of death, pelvic inflammatory disease. Pelvic inflammatory disease is a disease where an infection caused usually by an abortion travels up the fallopian tubes and into the ovaries, which can impact future pregnancies or even possibly cause a women to be infertile. Nobody wants…

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    Katherine Santana Mrs. Tapia English 3 Honors 11 November, 2015 In Vitro Fertilization Patrick Steptoe, a pioneer of fertility treatment, once said, “I'm not a wizard or a Frankenstein tampering with Nature. We are not creating life. We have merely done what many people try to do in all kinds of medicine—to help nature. We found nature could not put an egg and sperm together, so we did it. We do not see anything immoral in doing that in the interests of the mother. I cannot see anything immoral…

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    I attended the science speaker series on February 27th, when Laurie Mackenzie spoke on the current scientific developments and obstacles relating to the ethics of human reproduction and IVF. She gave a brief overview of how eggs are fertilized, detailing that the lifespan of an egg after ovulation is 12-14 hours, whereas sperm can live for up to 7 days, meaning that the perfect sperm must reach the egg that wants it quite quickly, or else the egg will wither and die, resulting in nothing other…

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    Being A Woman Analysis

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    the makeup of a female. What is the physical makeup of a female? All women are the same. If this assumption is based on anatomy views than this is true. To be a woman, a person must have the female reproductive organs which include the ovaries, fallopian tubes, and uterus. There is no such thing as becoming…

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    Endometriosis is a condition where the endometrial tissue outside the uterus causes pelvic pain and the tissue that lines the uterus grows outside of it. Females are associated with this conditioned because of the inner lining of the uterus is being affected. “Endometriosis is mostly common with women in their 30’s and 40’s; it affects about 5 million American women”, claimed the Women’s Health, U.S Department of Health and Human Services. It can be theorized that endometriosis is a genetic…

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