Unintended pregnancy

By definition an abortion is the termination of pregnancy by the removal or expulsion of a fetus or embryo from a woman’s uterus before sustainability. There are two categories of abortions, spontaneous or intentional and intentional abortions have different classification such as, therapeutic and elective. I strongly believe as a woman's body is her own to do with whatever she so chooses. Therefore, on the topic of abortions, I am Pro-choice. Being Pro-choice is the political and ethical view…

methods of ending their pregnancies when they lack the option to safe abortion.The World Health Organization “estimated about 13 percent of all maternal deaths accountedoccur in developing countries” (Terkel and Bassett) because restrictive laws or preventing familyplanning do not eliminate women’s need for abortion.The U.S. ranks the lowest among 17 developed nations concerning health care, with ithaving the “highest rate of women dying due to complications of pregnancy and…

However, according to a study written about by Ephrat Livni, “An increasing amount of public school sexual education instructors are teaching kids to “just say no to sex” as the only way to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, a study says.” The study was done by Alan Guttmacher Institute, a non-profit health organization in New York City and Washington, DC. Although this reflects a trend in the United States of America, the trend is…

In today’s world, many forms of contraceptives exist to aid women in preventing unintended pregnancies. Many of these contraceptives have been proven to be effective, with each having varying effects on the female reproductive system. This paper, however, focuses on hormonal birth control including the oral combination pills, hormonal IUD, Norplant, Nexplanon (implant) and Depo- Provera, which consist either of a combination or single set dosage of estrogen and/ or synthetic progesterone,…

Question 3 HIV can be transmitted from the HIV positive mother to the infant during pregnancy, labor, delivery, and breastfeeding. Without an intervention, transmission rates range from 15% to 45%, but the rate can be reduced to below 5% with effective prevention programs (1). These interventions are known as prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT). PMTCT involves antiretroviral treatment (ART) for both the mother and infant. PMTCT also includes procedures to prevent HIV…

time she became pregnant. During lecture three, we spoke about pregnancy intention. Parents fell into different categories depending on a few factors. The category Sergio and Melinda belong in is the “Unintended, wanted, slightly mistimed (2 years or less).” In the documentary they did not mention much about trying to not become pregnant, but they did mention wanting to have a baby later on. The level of happiness about the pregnancy was high for both the father and mother, which is a great…

abortion. I expect this subject to have basis in social, empirical and moral views but ultimately, in my opinion, trends of secularization in society may prevail to cause less restrictions in all states. I also expect to see a correlation between unintended pregnancies being carried to term and denial of access to abortion, thus a hypothetical claim on why abortion rates are decreasing. Many scholars have made compelling…

Abortion in the US Did you know that twenty-one percent of all pregnancies end in abortion! (Guttmacher Para. 2) Abortion has been around for a long time. Giving women the right to abort the unborn babies has become a controversial issue lately. Whether or not to give them the right to abort the baby or to keep it. Abortion is wrong because it is the murder of unborn babies. Since the creation of America murder has been illegal. Why is this type of murder legal now? Is America losing its…

“Your birth control plan isn’t always perfect. So there’s Plan B One Step emergency contraception” is the phrase on the Plan B One Step website. Plan B is a single dose emergency contraceptive pill to help prevent an unintended pregnancy after unprotected sex or contraceptive failure. Nine hundred and sixteen OB/GYNs were surveyed and recommended this brand over any other. Although this product is beneficial to some, it causes controversy with others. There are three different types of ads,…

and minimize the harm, by doing so, even though there is a possibility of having mosaicism, they know for sure that their child would not have Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, which will affect their child greatly if they have the disease. With 24% pregnancy rate, they can have a child without the disease. Therefore, the benefits in this case would outweigh the risk of having mosaicism that might leads to different types of mutations including the silence mutation. The CRISPR/Cas9 is very appealing…