Fertility-development controversy

Fertility has become a universal issue within the last few decades. Fertility today is at both an all time high and low within several regions around the world. Countries such as Niger, Mali, Somalia, Uganda etc, now all have on average have six kids per family. Compared to nations such as Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea and Egypt; where the average birth rate is as low as one child per family. Global impacts, varying from increased poverty level, overcrowded homes and cities are now worse than ever before.. This has also, affected health systems, education systems, the economy and many geographical aspects of the world. The nations today that face this issue at its worst are Niger and Uganda for the highest fertility rates and Hong…

In Fred Pearce article Tv as birth control, he introduces his argument by asking a simple question "what is U.S family sizes compared with those of india?. This question gives the audience a background introduction of the main idea of the article, which is the how TV helps reduce the fertility rate in under developed and developing countries. He talks about some difficulties india faces is having a lot of young women of childbearing age. Hence, Pearce purpose of this question is to state that…

health and pregnancy also shows that women with a history of depression are more likely to suffer from postpartum depression (484). When dealing with a mental illness, a woman may not feel as if she is emotionally capable of carrying to term or having a child due to emotions that arise from unintentional conceiving. There are many different types of mental disorders that could conflict with pregnancy. To name a few, anxiety and perceived stress can strongly occur during the pregnancy, and…

I recently read a story about a little boy who was born with only part of his brain. When his mother was only 17 weeks pregnant doctors told his mother that he wouldn’t make it, and asked her if she wanted to terminate the pregnancy. She thought that option was absurd and went on with her pregnancy. Doctors told her that she could possibly have a still born and that he wouldn’t make it to his first birthday. Although doctors constantly seemed to tell her that her boy wouldn’t make it, she had…

The six researchers began with a hypothesis, studied multiple conditions in which could cause their hypothesis to be supported or rejected. Their conclusion on the effects are reasonable, since development is the pattern of continuity and change that occurs throughout a lifetime. The rats were exposed to abnormal conditions in which they weren’t conditioned too, causing their development to change. Also, early experience has a greater impact on development, therefore the researchers using rats…

rules depending from the town you live. In China, there are rules such as if you are a urban couple you are only allowed to have one child. Rural families have the opportunities to try for a second child as long as the first one is a girl, and lastly ethnic minorities are allowed to give birth multiple times. There is one way that couples can trick the One Child Policy though, and that is by having multiple births. There is no penalty for having twins, but the chance to have twins are rare. Yet…

Judith Thomson created a very strong, concise argument in defending abortion, in which she believes that it is not morally plausible to deny a mother complete rights and jurisdiction over her own body when impregnated. Ultimately, I believe the person carrying the fetus has the right to decide whether to abort or not, which defends Thomson’s argument. Thomson discusses certain thought-experiments which are hypothetical situations that I believe help prove the point that abortion is necessary in…

Abortion There is so much controversy of whether or not abortion should be illegal or legal, and the fact of the matter is that people, men and women should have the choice of the decision if whether they want to or don’t it shouldn’t be a complicated topic. The topic of abortions shows a feminist criticism because women should have the choice of what they would like to do with their bodies without having someone else tell them what they can and cannot do. Although some people may be against…

In the essay “Why Abortion is Immoral,” philosopher Don Marquis uses utilitarian principles to argue that “abortion is, except in rare cases, seriously immoral…[and] in the same category as killing an innocent human being” (223). However, he deliberately avoids relating his thesis to abortion in the specific contexts of rape, maternal death, and severe postpartum health complications. Thus, in my analysis of his claim, I plan on adopting Marquis’ utilitarian perspective to evaluate the…

A moral philosophy called Judith Jarvis Thomson,came up with “A Defense of Abortion” in 1971.When it comes to argument of the right to life,According to experiments, he argue that fetus has the right to life though the pregnant woman has the right to control her own body.He disagree that abortion is morally impermissible.（Thomson，1971） Long time ago,abortion was considered in the context of gender selection,family planning,population control.First and foremost,almost every family want to…