Pregnancy discrimination

community. Being born a female, itself, present biological health conditions that affect her in many ways. For example, women are susceptible to be more anemic than men due to the menstruation and hemorrhage associated to pregnancies. Other complications associated to pregnancies such as hypertension, fistula, eclampsia and more are also other problems to their health. Moreover women are more susceptible to some diseases that are specific to their condition like breast cancer, ovarian cancer….…

that college students face. College students face issues with alcohol, pregnancy and drugs, which is included in the class syllabus, so Weight Management should also be added…

I am a feminist to a certain extent and I want to advocate for females. I say I am a feminist to an extent because I am not a hard core activist, but I do believe women deserve the same rights, acknowledgment, and pay as males. I saw this quote that referred to women losing their uniqueness because we were not made to do everything a man can do, but to do what men can’t do, and it was an upsetting picture. I do not understand why there is even an inequality issue till this day because the…

additional studies showing multigenerational tendencies (Kuzawa, C and Sweet, E, 2009). This was compared to the similarity in the situation of the slave women who experienced high energetic demands and increased workloads in the last periods of pregnancy who also had low birth weights of offspring. This link provided good supporting evidence to the main hypothesis of slavery being a causal intergenerational…

got pregnant with a baby they didn't want (e.g. The mother wanted a girl but got a boy). Many clinics boast a 99% gender selection success rate, but that's not factoring the 66% who couldn't get pregnant. After more research, I found clinics with pregnancy rates as high…

the sex of the baby by undergoing methods that increases the possibility of having that gender. Despite this new opportunity, parents shouldn’t determine the gender of their baby, it could cause many future dilemmas. "Let's face it, there is discrimination against women, but I don't sense in the practice of assisted reproductive technology, at least…

paper is to examine characteristics of working environment which are related to adverse pregnancy outcomes such as preterm delivery and low birth weightreport specific risk factors known to affect low birth weight. The specific risk factors which are the focus of the literature review are: occupational stress, occupational fatigue, long working hours, prolonged standing, heavy lifting, shift work during pregnancy. This in-depth review summarizes and interprets the available recent epidemiologic…

Prenatal Genetic Testing During a woman’s pregnancy, she is given the option to undergo testing to find out different information about her unborn child. Prenatal genetic testing has been around ever since the first historic test performed by Fuchs and Riis in 1956 on a sample of amniotic fluid. Prenatal genetic testing is often our first predictor of any health issues a baby might have and often a way to alleviate the fears of nervous future parents. Prenatal genetic testing originally was just…

increased stigmatisation and discrimination (Kitara, Amone, & Okello, 2012). On diagnosis of HIV it is not uncommon for families to abandon the person living with HIV, due to lack of knowledge regarding transmission. Male partners that abandon wives often abandon their children too, placing pressures on extended family, for housing, financial and emotional support (Wagner, Ryan, Huynh, Kityo, & Mugyeni, 2011). Misguided beliefs drive stigma, furthering discrimination for an already vulnerable…

Women felt the need to have birth controls, sex education, abortions, and contraceptives so they wouldn 't have fear to be pregnant but having security. There were women who felt the need to have reproductive rights not only to prevent an unwanted pregnancy but as well to avoid over population. According to Our Bodies, Ourselves it states, “ The dangers of overpopulation are so great that we may have to use certain techniques of contraception that may entail considerable risk to the individual…