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    questions, “How often did young women feel coerced to either bear a child or abort?”(Nelson, 86). Others, particularly women of color, were subject to involuntary sterilization, as in the cases of the underage African American Relf sisters and the “’mass sterilization of Puerto Rican women in the 1950s” (Nelson, 203). These forced sterilizations were deemed as genocidal population control of minorities and an infringement upon a woman’s right to have a…

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    1.) Authorize euthanasia and unrestricted sale: “Current restrictions placed on BLM limit their ability to sustainably and cost-effectively manage wild horses and burros. Authorizing unrestricted sale and euthanasia as permitted by the 1971 Act will enable BLM to relieve themselves of the high costs of caring for these animals indefinitely.” (wild horse range pg.3). This is a very unpopular solution with animal rights activist, however the National Horse & Burro Advisory Board has worked on…

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    that mass sterilization would be a more productive method (Burke). However, “the Human Rights Watch cites sterilization as a major health concern,” and many people are opposed to the sterilization campaigns as they believe it’s immoral and unethical. In response, India continues to work on population control as their birth rates, and in turn population, remains extremely high, yet they plan to do so by “increasing the promotion and availability of contraceptive[s],” rather than sterilization…

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    Vaginal Cone Case Study

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    4 Customisation of vaginal cone and its quality control measures 4.1 Introduction Globally one third of the women suffer from pelvic floor dysfunction. Every women experience mild to severe form of pelvic floor dysfunction symptoms at some point of their life. It occurs due to weak pelvic floor muscles which acts a basin for the pelvis and support the pelvic organs. The weakness inevitably occurs during pregnancy, after child birth (normal vaginal delivery and caesarean section) and after…

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    It is difficult to discuss sterilization and euthanasia in regards to the Nazi Party without also explaining the ideology of the party in regards to race science. Race science in the 21st century is now regarded as pseudoscience, used to validate or support views that are deemed racist. Unfortunately, Germany, and other nations of the time, viewed race science with confidence, and with this science as a basis, Germany euthanized or sterilized thousands of people to clean itself of impure races…

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    In the article Race Cleansing in America, Peter Quinn writes about the rise of the eugenics movement. The eugenics movement involved a belief that sterilization and prevention of reproduction of those believed to be genetically inferior. The American Breeder’s Association’s motto of “emphasiz[ing] the value of superior blood and the menace to society of inferior blood” highly summarizes the motives and goals for those involved in the eugenics movement. Quinn discusses many examples of growth and…

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    One reason that workplace hazards is important because of the toxic exposures. These agents have been associated with mutagenic, teratogenic, and carcinogenic effects as well as adverse effects such as irritation of the skin, eyes, and mucous membranes or acute allergic reactions ("Environmental Hazards for the Nurse as a Worker" 1995). For example, these can be things such as cancer drugs, just like those drugs do, the toxins get in to your body and slowly start breaking down until death.…

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    Nazi Medical Experiments “She spoke to me in an angels voice,” Ellias remembered. The Jewish doctor urged her, “You are young and can live; your child cannot live.” The doctor gave Ellias morphine and she injected and killed her baby. Doctor Mengele returned the following day. “He didn't want me,” Ellias recounts, “He wanted the child, but he couldn't find the corpse among the pile of corpses outside the barracks,” (Broder). The Nazi party ruled over Germany in World War Two and horrific…

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    There are stereotypes all around us express every day; for example, “all blonds are unintelligent”. There are many stereotypes about women, but the reality is that some women are brave, objective, passionate, visionary, realistic, honest, intelligent, supportive, creative, inspiring, communicative, optimistic and respectable. There is not exactly one type of women, stereotypes are hurtful to all hard-working women, who try to succeed and leave poverty or maltreatment. In reality, women can…

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    Eugenics is the science to control human populations. Governments in the past have enforced laws on the population to sterilize people with genes that are not favorable in order to increase the population with desirable heritable characteristics. Scientists do this because they believe that it will improve the quality of the human population. This science attributes human phenotypes and behaviors with genotypes and biology. Eugenics is the effort to better a population by removing negative…

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