Poor, inner city, undereducated women who may live with drug addiction, violence, and a sense of hopelessness. ... Many teens that have experienced childhood sexual abuse don't believe that they can control what happens to them or their bodies. ... Early sexual behavior has been related to various types of risk taking behaviors, such as alcohol, drugs, and delinquency. For example, alcohol and drug use appear to lower teens" to make rational choices for themselves and decrease the likelihood of contraceptive use. ... This is an attempt to obtain control over others, such as boyfriends or ...

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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. ... There are other positive outcomes to using birth control. ... Some reasons are if the user does not follow the directions, there is inconsistent use of the contraceptive, the condom breaks during sex, or the user is taking antibiotics or other drugs with oral contraceptive birth control pills. ...

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We can no longer look the other way when it comes to the youth and the issues that we face today whether it is drugs or alcohol abuse, crime, sexual orientation, sexually transmitted infections or pregnancy. ... 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 time you have sex, but it's a backup plan for those you are conce...

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The main concern for pro-life advocates is that women may use abortion as another form of birth control. They feel that women instead of using condoms or birth control pills will use abortions. ... The pro-choice argument can be extended farther, that a woman's right to control her body overrides any claim made by the fetus. ... As of September year two thousand there was a drug approved by the Food and Drug Association (FDA), this drug is Mifepristone (RU-486). ... The new medication to the battle of abortion is RU 486 (Mifepristone) and Misoprostol, together these drugs are named Mifepr...

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Some things to consider are good eating habits, not taking drugs or drinking alcohol, and of course getting exercise. ... During and after the pregnancy of your child, drugs and alcohol are very hazardous to your baby. Some subscription drugs can be very fatal to the way your child grows and develops. For example, hormone pills used for birth control or treatment of reproductive disorders can cause limb malformations; aspirin can prolong labor and can have the effect of bleeding in the mother or baby. Other types of drugs like narcotics can make you have delivery complications, reduce the...

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The F.D.A. recently approved a drug called "the morning after pill". This drug is given to rape victims or anyone who has a reason to believe they might be pregnant. ... Both of these drugs have caused controversies between political leaders. ... s decision on the drug. ... These people have a need to control what a woman does with her body. ...

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My fourth source talks about an abortion drug and other regulations from the court. ... In her argument, by the Democrats offering women birth control and allowing abortion, then women are reduced to being just ovaries. ... Having the economy on stagnant, then giving women birth control is giving them a prize for not having a good paying job to support the economy. ...

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The recent approval of the drug RU-486 will also change the abortion game forever. The drug allows a woman to perform an abortion at home, and because of this drug the pro-life and pro-choice tension has escalated. ... - Many people argue that a woman should have full control over her body. ... At a minimum, I would ague that a woman should have control over this period of spontaneous abortion (usually lasting until week 13 or 15 of the pregnancy) by deciding whether she wants to choose an elective abortion." ...

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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). ... The effects of alcohol and drugs on teenagers are yet another contributing effect that causes teen pregnancy in the US. ... 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 informati...

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ABORTION: Birth Control or Legal Murder? Approximately 1.6 million murders are committed legally each year. This is the murder of an innocent child by a procedure known as abortion. Abortion stops the beating of an innocent child's heart. People must no longer ignore the scientific evidence...

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Especially living in the El Paso area they said all they would have to do is to across the border into Mexico to find a doctor that would do the procedure or find a pharmacy that sells drugs to have a miscarriage.1 One minor had told me that she was having an abortion due to her being to young she was only 15 years old and that she could not afford to keep the baby, and it would set all her priorities to the side.1 All the people asked in this survey said that their parents did not teach them or talk to them about safe sex. ... Given that many families do not educate their children about respo...

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In the other hand the abortion ban would create lots of controversies, since the pro-choice activist debated that if abortion was banned, the women would have lost control of their body since they are force into giving an unwanted birth. ... 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. ... 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 there is equally large percentage of peop...

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Muldoon, The Abortion Debate in the United States and Canada: A Source Book )The "abortion pill,"" the drug RU-486 (mifepristone), was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in the United States in 2000. ... A second drug is taken two days later to start uterine contractions and complete the abortion. ... Riddle, Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance) The drugs methotrexate and misoprostol have also been used experimentally to end early pregnancies.( The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. ... Therefore, the right of the unborn to ...

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One woman, Margaret Sanger, created birth control so that women could have the choice of when they wanted to have a child. ... Margaret Sanger was an American writer, sex educator, nurse and famously a birth control activist during the early twentieth century. Sanger was the one to popularize the term "birth control". ... In 1965, at the age of 81, Margaret Sanger witnessed the disposal of the Cornstock laws in addition to her "magic pill" (Enovid) being approved by the Food and Drug Administration. ... Margaret Sanger, striving for abortion and birth control rights for wom...

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The researchers conducted a prospective randomized controlled study using an exposure model to determine the ability of the fetus to learn. ... The control group was subjected to all of the same conditions, only the headphones placed over the abdomen played no music. ... The researchers found that both the control and music groups had significantly more heart rate and activity transitions during exposure to music compared to the baseline period. ... Furthermore, the lack of a control group leaves room for many problems to occur. ... Fetal learning: a randomized controlled study. ...

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Abortion is necessary for women to have control over their own bodies and life. ... Women must have the right to control the functions of their own bodies. ... Women are in control of their own bodies and lives. ...

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We believe that the right of women to control their own fertility is a fundamental human right. ... The National Abortion Campaign advocates the basic right of women to control their own fertility; they say that women have a full right to chose when they want to have children. ... Euthanasia, at the moment is illegal throughout the world apart from in the State of Oregon in USA, where there is a law specifically allowing doctors to prescribe lethal drugs for the purpose of euthanasia. ... Some of the pain caused by terminal illness cannot be controlled, even with the strongest of drugs and b...

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Both of these young lawyers were very active in the women's movement and thought women should have the right to control their own reproductive processes. ... She abused alcohol and drugs and was later beaten by a husband whom she married at age sixteen. ... This of course may affect future decisions and may give even greater control of abortion to state legislatures as the meaning of "undue burden" is clarified. ...

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RU 486, a widely used method of birth control, in some cases even resulted in death. ... Basically, this drug executes the abortion process by starving the embryo. ... Prominent drugs, such as RU 486 can also be a threat to the safety of the mother. ...

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Teenagers in the United States are experimenting with sexual activities more and more today than ever before. According to Charles Krauthammer, "Sex oozes from every pore of the culture and there's not a kid in the world who can avoid it." (Meier, 1994, p. 7). Teenagers are surrounded by some sort o...

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Even though they need to control the amount of people it shouldn't be forced upon women to make the decision without proper planning. ... The U.S. government should lend a helping hand by educating and sending birth control supplies. Educating them would be the most important thing because women in china believe that by using contraceptives such as birth control pills and condoms it will put their family and reputation in shame. ... Knowing that this drug is hazardous to the baby's health it is still inserted into the soft spot on the baby's head so that as he or she is being de...

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To plan, choose, and exercise personal responsibility, one must have control of reproduction." ... "Women who have abortions are more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol and have multiple pregnancies, with more abortions, and broken relationships," says Reardon. ...

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Birth control clinics shall be permitted to function as services of government health departments or under the support of charity, or as nonprofit, self-sustaining agencies subject to inspection and control by public authorities. ... The revenues thus obtained shall be expended by the State within the given county in giving financial support to birth control.... ... The following is a description of the various types of abortions that are performed in this country: (a) RU-486 RU-486 is a drug that produces an abortion. ... A second drug is then given that stimulates the uterus to co...

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They do not take illegal drugs or use tobacco products. ... Issues such as birth control, divorce and remarriage, dancing, and some others are left up to the individual. The church does not condone birth control or divorce and remarriage, but they do not condemn it either. ...

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Abortion is being used as a method of birth control, which was proved in a study done by the Lancet magazine February 1995, pg. 300 that 245 of teenagers aged seventeen to nineteen have undergone induced abortions. ... Humans do not have the right or the power to control the quality of life and to avoid suffering. ... (www.americancapitalism/nationalism.html) If the mother took drugs illegally, and it caused the child's death, she could be charged with murder because she deliberately killed the child by endangering it. ...

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