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“Tina Degroot, please come and retrieve your pill supply!” screeched an official over an intercom. The girl who was just called looked about 21 years old and had a stern expression plastered onto her narrow face. She had long jet black hair that swished as she walked into one of the many rooms where the officials handed out the pill supply. “Cora Strathmore, please come and retrieve your pill supply!” screamed another official over the same intercom. When Cora stepped through the…

My Argumentative Essay 2% of people in the US prison system are equal to 46,000 people, that’s been convicted of a crime they have not done but are in jail. According to the article “DNA Technology and Crime” “In 1992 lawyers Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld created the Innocence Project, a legal organization aimed at overturning wrongful conviction through DNA profiling. Since then, more than two hundred criminal convictions have been overturned in the United States alone.” The Innocence…

Coming in to this course, I did not know what to expect due to the fact that I have never taken a women and gender studies course. Now that we are at the end of the course and I am able to reflect on what I have learned, I believe that the topic that I was most interested in and learned the most about was reproductive rights. While reflecting on what I have learned regarding reproductive rights, I will be discussing: the dangers that women experienced without forms of contraceptives, important…

when the executive shows up, what he doesn’t realize is, I’m actually debriefing him on behalf of a competitor.” He speaks with pride knowing that he is a spy, taking pride in his profession. From the public’s perspective, he is a harmless job interviewer, but from the private image of who actually is, Barry has an ulterior motive that ultimately benefits himself. He throws away the feelings of the people he is “interviewing”, and thinks only of the greater reward he will receive. “I don’t feel…

Pregnancy prevention can be traced back as far as 3000 BC when people would use condoms made out of the bladder of fish or animal intestines. Today, there are many ways to prevent pregnancy, such as male condoms and female birth control. The form that is the most popular in the United States is the pill. The FDA did not approve of the pill until 1957 and was not approved for contraceptive use until 1960. Catholic churches believed that birth control was sinful and that women that took it were…

In the article Birth Control in Drinking Water: A Fertility Catastrophe in the Making? from the National Catholic Register, the writer Celeste McGovern, argues that EE2 (the form of synthetic estrogen found in most birth control pills) may have negative effects on human health. She argues that birth control pills are not safe for use, as they are ending up in the water supply by being urinated by the females using them. The first example McGovern uses to back up her claim is by looking at the…

Many women and men since the early 1900s have strove to contribute and gain more support and equality for women. Whether it be the right to vote or simply receiving the same equal treatment as men. One of the most beneficial achievements during the early 1960s occurred when America approved the birth control pill. In May 9th, 1960, the FDA approved the pill, which was created to control and regulate the reproduction in women and among couples that were not prepared for the responsibility of…

Did you know that eighty-five million pregnancies worldwide are unintended? (guttmacher) This is an issue because fifty percent of these pregnancies lead to abortion, miscarriage, and unplanned births. "These eighty-five million unintended pregnancies take a serious toll on women, families and ultimately nations, impeding efforts to reduce poverty and spur development," said Sedgh. The question is why are there an abundant amount of unplanned pregnancies? The explanation to this is that many…

Although access to abortion in the United States was easy in the country's early history, the professionalization of medical doctors and American cultural ambiguity about female sexuality led to severe restrictions on access to abortion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But even during this restrictive period, many upper- and middle-class women could still obtain legal abortions under the discretion allowed to medical doctors. As this inequity…

Contraception and fertility control are methods or devices used to prevent pregnancy, known as birth control. Birth control methods have been used since ancient times, however more effective and safe methods only became available in the 20th century. Although there are number different types of birth control, the most common ones are IUD and pills. Hormonal Intrauterine Device (IUD) and pills are both forms of birth control for women. There are similarities between them such as both being…