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matter is that abortions only make up 3% of all the services available. Not only do women go to these centers for affordable health services, men can also go to their nearest Planned Parenthood center as well. Men can go and get STD screening, vasectomies, cancer screenings, and treatment for erectile dysfunction. These groups of people fighting against Planned Parenthood are extremists who are targeting women who especially need the services provided by the non-profit institution. Many of these…

Introduction Contraception, also called birth control, are ways to prevent pregnancy. Hormonal birth control This kind of birth control uses hormones. Here are some types of hormonal birth control: A tube put under the skin of the upper arm. The tube can stay in place for as long as 3 years. Shots given every 3 months. Pills taken every day. Patches. These are changed once a week for 3 weeks. They are taken off for one week. A ring put into the vagina. The ring is left in place for 3 weeks and…

decisions concerning their own bodies. The government should not be able to make laws that tell people what to do with their bodies. There are no laws that dictate what a man must do with his body. For example, we do not tell men when a man can get a vasectomy, therefore women should have the same right to choose. People that are against abortion say the everyone should live no matter their quality of life. Although this is very true, babies with severe abnormalities will suffer their whole…

Rights, the foundation of our society. Our rights define our freedom with our political views, our money, our actions, and our bodies. We are given these rights as an understanding that we have certain levels of freedom to act how we want, speak about what we want, and protest whatever we want. However, does this mean that it is valid to protest to take away another person rights? Today in America a social protest movement to advocate anti-abortion and anti-reproductive rights is becoming an…

Why did the Law for Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Mental Illnesses become a law? What type of treatments did the people go through? What effects did it have on the patients, the people who performed the sterilizations/ surgeries, and local citizens? The Law for Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Mental Illnesses became a law because the Germans wanted a pure race. The treatments were brutal and the effects differed from the person’s view of the German race and what a part they…

The Great Appeal The two stories, “On going Home” by Joan Didion and “The Case for Single-Child Families” by Bill McKibben, revolve around the subject of families. However, while both authors’ stories do discuss the same subject, there are slight differences when approaching its style and tone wise. Didion’s tone is often melancholy, using her own experiences to appeal to the reader’s emotions, whereas McKibben has an informative tone and presents logical facts to back up the information given.…

The world is full of people, too many some would say. With the world’s population currently at seven billion it is not hard to see that the population is surging. The number of people in an area must not exceed its carrying composite. With India being the second most populated country in the world, some say it has done just that. Over population is a problem that many people over look, now is the time to stop putting this problem to the side and face it head on before it is too late. The…

HOPI This is a 45-year-old male with PMH of GERD and hernia repaired, who presented with ABD pain that started 5 hours ago. He had a large burger and fries last night and was not able to sleep d/t ABD pain. The pain is located in the RUQ and right shoulder or scapula. He rates the pain as 7/10. He describes the pain as a “constant and severe”, with associated symptoms of nausea, chills, and vomiting. He has vomited twice, which provided him some relief. He thinks the emesis was consist of…

and forms of contraception. There are many forms of contraceptives other than withdrawal,which is commonly used among students usually known as the pull out method, such as the birth control pill/implant/patch/shot, condoms, female condom, IUD, vasectomy and abstinence. The most commonly used form of contraception among women is birth control. There is a major misconception that birth control encourages women to be sexually active and that they do not have to face the consequences of getting…

It is one of the most talked about and debatable topics out there in our society today. It is a topic that is seen as black and white, but in retro-spec, one might say it is a black and gray debate (or white and gray). It is abortion. Abortion is the termination or, as some would say, killing of a fetus. Much like evolution, it is a taboo and hard to tackle topic for our government and society. The world is torn between two logical perspectives that everyone had a right to--- religious or…