Gestation

Women around the world have used abortion to control their reproduction at every point in history and in every known society for an ample amount of reasons. The decision to have an abortion is typically motivated by multiple, diverse and interrelated reasons but the 3 most common causes would be the fact that the mother is too young and not prepared for the transition into motherhood, the second reason being financial complications and the final reason is the fact that a young child could…

second stanza highlights the close proximity that the chord is to the speaker’s mother. Though “umbilical” refers to inseparable attachment in a literal sense, it also signifies the umbilical cord that has connected every fetus to the placenta during gestation. This subtle reference of the process before giving birth foreshadows the extended discussion on the biblical rebirth that follows and demonstrates the hopefulness that the poem exudes, apart from the overall despondent and gloomy…

With NIPT consisting of a simple blood test, it eradicates the risk of harm to both the foetus and the mother. This makes it much safer whilst still being just as accurate (99%) and also able to be done as early as the first 7-9 weeks of gestation. In terms of the NHS, less expertise will be required to perform a simple blood test compared to invasive testing and so less staff will be required. With NIPT not imposing the risk to the foetus or discomfort to the mother that invasive prenatal…

Merriam-Webster dictionary, abortion defined is “the termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus as a spontaneous expulsion of a human fetus during the first 12 weeks of gestation--miscarriage, the induced expulsion of a human fetus, or the expulsion of a fetus by a domestic animal often due to infection at any time before completion of pregnancy.” Abortion is one of the most controversial topics. Everyone has an opinion…

Logan Conklin Mrs. Couzens Language Arts, 4th Hour 23 March 2016 Veganism, Good or Bad Imagine you just got unwillingly artificially inseminated again and it's happened more times than you can count. Your living conditions are so awful, you are constantly afraid, abused, and stressed, you're being fed grain when it's unnatural and you know you should be eating grass but you can't. Because grass doesn't make you gain weight fast enough and with the business the faster you can be killed the…

because the connections from the periphery to the cortex are not intact. Most neuroscientists believe that the cortex is completely necessary for pain perception, it can be concluded that the fetus cannot experience any pain at all prior to this gestation. There is evidence proving fetal pain does not occur until at least 20 weeks pregnant, so this basically concludes that abortions should be legal because of the wide time gap where the fetus feels no pain at all during the…

Commercial overfishing is a problem that is often discussed and scrutinized, with improvements made to fishery sustainability and methods of practice. While this may be considered progress, few species suffer the same peril that the sharks of our oceans do. Sharks are the apex predators of our waters, and if we continue our ways we run the risk of threatening our entire oceanic food chain. One may ask how this has become such a real possibility, and the answer is both simple and disturbing –…

The purpose of this lab was to observe how exposure to ethanol impacts early chick development. We also aimed to determine whether a dose dependence exists between exposure and manifestation of FAS. Chick eggs were injected with ethanol at different concentrations: 0%, 5%, 10% and 15% and development was terminated after 14 days. We found ethanol concentration had a significant effect on chick head diameter (tab.1), and the linear relationship can be seen in figure 2; as ethanol concentration…

According to the medical clinic, “a miscarriage is a spontaneous loss of pregnancy before the twentieth week”. Almost ten to twenty percent of pregnancies result in a miscarriage. Anxiety and depression are common side effects of miscarriage, and especially if the woman has lost more than one child to a miscarriage. Many miscarriages have led to post-partum depression in women. While multiple miscarriages can cause post-partum depression, there is no increased risk for women who have a history…

We encounter it every day in supermarkets, in fast food restaurants, and even in movie theaters. Factory farming is a major agricultural crisis brewing for the last twenty or more years, but today consumers have options to help stop it. While the food industry profits from animal cruelty and massive pollution, ordinary farmers are sunk further into debt. The livestock are loaded with chemicals and antibiotics, thus making it unhealthy for humans to eat. Finally, the food industry is defiantly…