Teen birth rates, however, have increased over the years. In fact, Mississippi's teen birth rate was sixty percent higher than the national average. However, the U.S. teen birth rate dropped nine percent from 2009 to 2010, reaching a historic low of 34.3 births per 1,000 teens aged fifteen to nineteen. ... The cost of raising a child is much more expensive than providing free birth control. ... One way to keep this trend down is by making birth control more available. ...

• Word Count: 1691
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

I feel there are many reasons why people should use birth control. ... With many different forms of contraception available, I think that birth control should be used. Numerous religious groups argue that birth control should not be available. ... Birth control is a good thing in that it lessons the amount of abortions and unwanted pregnancies. There are other positive outcomes to using birth control. ...

• Word Count: 374
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

At one point in history, a high birth rate was considered to be an asset or resource for a country. ... For those individuals who wish to limit the number of children that they conceive, there are many effective methods of birth control. These range from abortion, the morning after pill, birth control pills, to other devices. ... For individuals without insurance, birth control may be even more expensive (Sullivan and Thompson 1988). This is because to receive birth control pills, women must have a physical examination in order to receive the prescription. ...

• Word Count: 436
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After this she decided she must attack the source of the problem, birth control. ... More and more medical advancements are amounting in the birth control field. ... The crusade for birth control is an issue to every woman. ... Abortion, though not supported by the American Birth Control League, is still another form of birth control today. ... Whether people agree or disagree birth control is a part of American culture. ...

• Word Count: 876
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Of the half-a-million teens that give birth annually, 72 percent are unmarried and 75 percent are giving birth for the first time. ... They assume that by giving birth to their boyfriends' babies, he will stick around longer and the relationship will improve as a result. ... There are condoms, birth control and many other forms of protection that are accessible to almost everyone. And if something goes wrong, there is the Plan B pill, which is not birth control but an emergency contraceptive. It's not as reliable as regular birth control which is why you shouldn't use it every t...

• Word Count: 854
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Giving Birth V.S. ... If anything, giving birth is more human, because we can choose to avoid it, whereas death, eventually, is inevitable." ... Most people paid more attention on abortion, however, I think that the decision will be more reliable and more reasonable by taking a serious concern on the issue of giving birth. ... We always talk about abortion, but fail to exam the fundamental concepts of giving birth. ... after you gave his/her birth. ...

• Word Count: 781
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Every woman body adjust to an abortion in numerous ways, some later experience miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, or birth defect. ... Fetal malformation, excessive bleeding giving birth, and perinatal death are the aftermaths of an abnormal development of the placenta caused by uterine damage during abortion. ... Women take advantage and use it as if it was a birth control but it isn't. ...

• Word Count: 664
• Approx Pages: 3

Overall, the main issue appears to arise from the absence of using birth control and contraceptives. ... It can be hard to talk to your parents or your friends in order to get advice or help on what you should do, which is why many people just choose not to use any form of birth control. ... Aside from just not using birth control, some teens have other secret agendas. ...

• Word Count: 1309
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

President Bush has just signed a ban on late-term abortion. To many this might means nothing, but a closer look at this issue and it relates to all of us because it infringes on our God given rights and the rights given to us by our founding fathers of the Constitution. Back in the 1970s the U.S...

• Word Count: 352
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

Only 28 percent of the abused girls used birth control the first time they engaged in intercourse compared to 74 percent of girls in the general population (Malika Saada Saar 1). ... Comprehensive sex education programs stress abstinence in order to avoid unintended pregnancies and STD's however it also conveys complete and medically accurate information about contraception and ways of birth control. ... In order for adolescents to gain accurate and helpful information about contraception and birth control they must partake in comprehensive sex education programs in school rather than abs...

• Word Count: 1645
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The process of partial birth abortion is an easy one to perform (Fegelman). ... Therefor, most partial birth abortions are done out of the choice of the mother. ... President Bush has prepared a bill to outlaw partial birth abortions. This bill would not outlaw the act of abortion altogether, just partial birth abortion. ... Partial Birth Abortion" Available: http://members.aol.com/abtrbng/pbal.htm. ...

• Word Count: 873
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Then why do we think there is nothing wrong to use killing, as a form of birth control. ... What is the difference between a procedure, which murders a baby one-month before birth, from the procedure which murders baby one month after birth? ... Most of them used for the form of birth control. ... Unborn children are just as human as children after birth. What difference is there between a child one day before birth and one day after birth? ...

• Word Count: 1115
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Then why do we think there is nothing wrong to use killing, as a form of birth control. ... What is the difference between a procedure, which murders a baby one-month before birth, from the procedure which murders baby one month after birth? ... Most of them used for the form of birth control. ... Unborn children are just as human as children after birth. What difference is there between a child one day before birth and one day after birth? ...

• Word Count: 1115
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Women who give birth as teenagers share many similarities prior to becoming pregnant in terms of family background, racial/ethnic profile and education (Bissel, 2000). ... Many people think that teenage mothers are at high risk for poor outcomes from pregnancy and birth. Phipps and Sowers (2002) measured risks factors linked to poor birth outcomes in teenage mothers 16 to 19 years old, due to their age and status. ... Most teenagers that give birth to children drop out of school. ... One study found that teenage mothers who gave birth has a reduced rate of high school graduation (Hoffert et al...

• Word Count: 1222
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Congress passed the bill 64-34 banning partial birth abortion. ... The bill resembles the ban on " partial birth abortion in 1997 in which Dr. ... The bill was declared unconstitutional in Supreme Court in 2000 as the partial birth procedure defines that the doctor partially delivers virginally a living unborn child before killing the child. ... Two partial birth abortion bans were passed by Congress but vetoed by Clinton because it didn't have any exceptions allowing it to be used when women's health comes into questions, but the law makers did their homework this time and include...

• Word Count: 615
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In fact, many attempts were made throughout the 1900's for reformed "family planning", which aimed at decreasing the average household size through only planned births. ... Mao's rethought outlook in 1956; "It is necessary to publicize and promote birth control and planned parenthood in all densely populated areas." ... This meant one birth per household for a country whose tradition is couched in large families and their lives lead through familial ties since the birth of the Chinese culture. ... There were three main tenets encouraged in the policy: delayed marriage and delayed ...

• Word Count: 2432
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The woman did not consent to sex and did not have the choice to use birth control, so she should therefore be given the choice on whether to abort the child or to bear her attackers child when it's very existence brings back terrible memories. ... A pregnancy in which the baby suffers from a congenital birth defect is just as tragic as one caused by rape or incest. ... New techniques, such as amniocentesis, can give parents the information on potential birth defects even when the child is still in the womb. ... Bennett, from the years 1970 and 1990 show that illegitimate births went fr...

• Word Count: 713
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Further more, if the abortion is ban, then those women who are addicted to drugs or diagnosed with AIDS would all be force to give birth. ... Therefore the Catholics believed that the birth is a process of reproducing life from the god's image, and it is a sin to take away the image of God in human beings. ... Doesn't it begin at birth or inside the mother's womb, or does life mean consciousness. If the life begins inside the mother's womb, then is it is against the religious teaching to prevent an unwanted birth with birth control pills? ... In the other hand, pro-abor...

• Word Count: 1170
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Causes for this may be that birth control was still very new and unknown. ... For many women, their choices were adoption, birth, or abortion. ... That number is large, still too large with America's accessibility to birth control. ... This data seems to be implying that young teenage girls are responsive to the revolutions of birth controls and contraceptives. ... Less that 2% said they would not have given birth under any circumstances....

• Word Count: 940
• Approx Pages: 4

If they do end up giving birth to unwanted child, it would lead to the problem of desertion or the mother neglecting the child and leading to its death. There are some women who have health problems that prevent them from being able to go through childbirth and for the reason that any form of birth control is not 100% effective, these women may at some point call for an abortion. ... However, if the child were to survive the birth, and not the mother, it would be forced to live a life without a mother. ...

• Word Count: 353
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

No scientist at the meeting claimed that life begins at birth (Whitney 4). ... Life begins at conception because of the fact that life in the womb does not change at birth. There are no special procedures or changes that occur during birth to magically change the fetus to a baby. ... Using an ultra sound the abortionist grabs the baby's legs with forceps and pulls them out into the birth canal. ... It is rapidly becoming a form of birth control. ...

• Word Count: 1884
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

If a mother is carrying a child and the child's birth has a chance of killing or hurting the mother then the option to abort is a good possibility. The main reason for this is obviously to save the mother and to make sure one will live rather than if she tried to have the birth they both might die. ... Another reason for abortion is if a woman is raped and is carrying and unwanted child then she has the choice of going through the birthing process or she can abort the child. ... Being forced to have sex, carry, and birth a child that is not wanted is a hard situation for a woman to go ...

• Word Count: 549
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

These are called partial-birth abortions. ... Finally the dead baby is removed from the birth canal. ... Abortion has been abused to long as a form of birth control. ... All humans from the day of conception to the day we die are humans, not from the day of birth....

• Word Count: 637
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Some people choose this method to solve the solution because they feel it is necassary; some use it as a form of birth control. ... Having this done is fine under the right circumstances; some women choose to abuse the method wrongly using it for birth control. ... Instead of getting one's tubes tied or just simply taking birth control pills, they choose to keep paying lots of money to have the fetus killed. ... Wouldn't this solve the problem of using this as birth control? ...

• Word Count: 498
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Well abortions are legal in this country until the day of birth! ... No permit for parenthood shall be valid for more than one birth. ... Every county shall be assisted administratively by the state in the effort to maintain a direct ratio between the county birth rate and its index of child welfare. ... The revenues thus obtained shall be expended by the State within the given county in giving financial support to birth control.... ... Planned Parenthood claims that their efforts would reduce abortion and the births of children by unwed teenagers. ...

• Word Count: 5343
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School