According to the Guttmacher Institute's Facts on American Teen's Sexual and Reproductive Health it is stated that 82 percent of teen pregnancies are unplanned, an astonishingly high percentage which accounts for around one fifth of the unplanned pregnancies each year. ... Abstinence-only programs are not effective because they do not provide information and help about safer sex, the benefits of contraception, legal rights to health care, and ways to access reproductive health services (Advocates for Youth 1). ... The NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation states that teens must have acc...

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I feel that endangerment to the life( not health) of the mother is the only real reason abortions should be allowed. ... Through the years it has grown into a multi billion dollar industry that promotes abortion sales through Women's Health Care. ... In 1973 the court decision said that a woman could have an abortion if her health was endangered by the pregnancy. The court went on to define health to mean her well-being which meant that she could have an abortion if she was mentally or physically upset by the pregnancy. ... Pro-choice people often accuse the pro-life people of not carin...

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If one could lay down and make a baby then one better stand up and take care of it. ... This could potentially ruin your life and take a huge toll on your health. ... It is not worth risking your health and chance of reproducing. ... Woman tend to get mental health issues after aborting their offspring because they feel as if they have betrayed themselves. ... If a mother can not take care of her child she could always give it up for adoption or foster care. ...

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These authors are against it when it comes to the health and life of the mother and fetus for allowing them to carry the term of pregnancy up to that amount of weeks. ... The main reason that late abortion can be justified ethically is if the late abortion will entail only a low risk to the mother's health or life. ... I understand things happen and maybe an abortion is the best option for health reason then go with the choice. ... Most of Americans deaths occur in health-care institutions. ... With an exception for a sick person who is in doctor care, and the doctor can give the...

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Due to an extremely loose interpretation of "mental health," California also had defact abortion-on-demand. ... Reproductive Health Services is handed down by Supreme Court Allowing states to place increased restrictions on women's access to abortion. ... In 1994, President Clinton signed Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) making it a federal crime to interfere with the provision of reproductive health care. ... During the second trimester, a state could impose restriction intended to safeguard the mother's health. ... In some causes, the parent is unable to take care o...

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Based on these beliefs, and reflecting the diverse communities within which we operate, the mission of Planned Parenthood is: to provide comprehensive reproductive and complementary health care services in settings which preserve and protect the essential privacy and rights of each individual; to advocate public policies which guarantee these rights and ensure access to such services; to provide educational programs which enhance understanding of individual and societal implications of human sexuality; to promote research and the advancement of technology in reproductive health car...

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Lisa understands that having the baby would imply tough time, but she also realizes that she's still young and has a lot of school left to take care of. ... They continue to send the message to women that they should feel guilt or remorse for making their own personal reproductive health care decisions. ... Abortion is a personal decision that should be made by women who are pregnant and if in an institution of marriage, the couple can discuss this issue and find out if they are or are not ready for the big challenges that come along with taking care and raising a child. ... Ultimately...

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They say that when women feel that it is absolutely necessary to have an abortion, they will have one, even if it is without the proper medical care. ... I believe that abortions are "absolutely necessary" in only two situations: the health of the mother and/or baby, and in a situation where the woman was raped. Surveys of women aborting their babies indicate that 3% of them are occurring due to the women's health, 3% of them are due to the unborn child's health, and 1% of them are occurring due to rape or incest. ...

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These differences seem to be decreasing in recent studies, perhaps due to increased health services for young mothers. Teenage mothers who are 15 years old and younger and have not enough prenatal care tend to also have a low weight gain which is less than 20 pounds during their pregnancy (Phipps and Sowers, 2002). ... New work indicates that the health outcomes are related more to the poverty and lack of prenatal care common to pregnant teenage girls. ... These outcomes include poorer psychological functioning, lower rates of school completion, lower levels of marital stability, less stable e...

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One issue that concerns me is abortion. Abortion is a wrongful act that should outlaw in the United States. I believe to abort your baby is as equal to killing your baby. Each mother that does abortion is destroying a life that could have had a bright future in this world. The minute the child is de...

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Some women have abortions because of health complications, some have marital problems, and some lack responsibility. ... A woman can only abort a fetus in the third trimester if it poses a direct threat to the health and well being of the woman (189 Tribe). ... If a woman cannot choose an abortion she must take a leave of absence from her daily life in order to have a child and take care of it. ... Since having and caring for a child is an expensive procedure, poor women may be forced into welfare. ... Women who do not give their children up for adoption must constantly care and provide for th...

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Each of these women has her own familial relationship, hopes for the future, economic concerns, and health needs (Watkins). ... Also, no one knows what health problems the biological father had and what genes the baby carries. ... The mother will spend up a lot of money on the baby's health, and probably will not be able to support all the treatment. ... Another reason for abortion is when the woman's health is at risk. ... Who is going to take care of them? ...

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Mental and physical health may be taxed by childcare. There is also the distress, for all concerned and associated with the unwanted child, and there is the problem of bringing a child into a family already unable, psychologically and otherwise to care for it. ... The opinion continued, " (But) the privacy right involved... cannot be said to be absolute and must be considered against important state interests in regulation It is reasonable and appropriate for State to decide that at some point in time another interest, that of the health of the mother or that of potential human life, becomes...

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It's ironic that in the year 2002 the government has tried to pass a "bill that will let hospitals and other health care providers refuse to perform abortions without fear of penalty"(House Abortion Bill Provides Both Sides of Issues With Stage For Pre- Election Debate p.2533). This means it will make it harder for women to find a hospital that can legally perform an abortion and would be covered by their health plans. ...

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Some of these drawbacks include Post-Abortion Syndrome, as well as health complications. ... Symptoms of this include, "depression and thoughts of suicide, sad moods, sudden and uncontrollable crying, deterioration of self-esteem, survival guilt, development of eating disorders, alcohol and drug abuse, other self-punishing or self-degrading behaviors: abusive relationships, promiscuity, and failing to take care of yourself medically or deliberately hurting yourself emotionally and/or physically." ... Another drawback is the health issue. ...

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The US Department of Health and Human Services reported that after nine weeks unborn babies can feel pain, yet 48 percent of all abortions are done after this point. ... Only three percent of all abortions are done for the mother's health, where 40 percent of women who have abortions will have more than one and 50 percent use it as their sole means of birth control. ... People need to start caring for the women who are hurting as a result of an abortion, and women who are struggling over the decision. ...

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Despite the elimination of traditional reasons for abortion in cases of heart disease, some kidney disorders, tuberculosis, and some neuralgic diseases, a woman and physician may still be aware of the difficulty of caring for a child attendant threats to her health, these medical reasons for abortion have arisen (Sarvis 71). ... Those include instances when giving birth would endanger the woman's health, the fetus is irreparably damaged or the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest. ... There are clinics that advertise in Spanish-language newspapers and neighborhood weeklies, pay kickbac...

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Rpt. from "Abortion, Conscience, and Health Care Provider Rights." ... "The Democratic Party's Policies Threaten Women's Health and Personal Freedom." Women's Health. ... They only care about the future of the country, not actually about the health of the women. ...

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Many teens today do not care about using birth control. ... Think about what it would be like if you had a child to take care of. ... Most of your expenses will be toward your rent, food, clothing for yourself and the baby, child care, health care, transportation, social life, and savings. ... By going to a school for pregnant and parenting teens that provide child care in the facilities, you can continue your education and get a great paying job so you can support you and your child. ...

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I think that abortion should be restricted to the first 20 weeks that is when most of the test can be taken to determine the health of the fetus. ... It takes so much energy, will power, dedication, prayers and money to take care of a misfortune baby and that is why they always end up in institutions no matter how much they are loved. ... After all, there are enough children out there that are either on welfare, foster care or just plain abused, they might also feel rejected by society, by their parents who did not want them in the first place and might rebel later on in their teen years. ...

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The termination of the pregnancy might have to do with the health of the mother herself, maybe the mother is unable to attend to the child's needs after its born, resulting in child abuse and mental disease. ... They no longer have the energy to efficiently take care of the child. ... From a medical standard these women are at a very high risk that health problems for the mother and the baby could happen. ... A choice needs to be available to prevent the birth of unwanted children, to avoid damage to the child as well as to safeguard the emotional and physical health of women. ...

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Life should be the most valued of all things on earth and by allowing people to think that killing life, at any stage is acceptable, then we will grow into a very unaffectionate, and uncompassionate world, with little care of the living, or even worse, death. ... In this instance, Norma McCovey, or "Jane Roe" she would soon become known as, was seeking an abortion in her home state of Texas, where abortion was illegal unless the health of the mother was in jeopardy. ... Once the second tri-semester begins, abortion is no longer allowed, unless, the woman's "he...

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(Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century (1998); J. ... The health) of the fetus is directly related to the health of the pregnant woman. ... Women's bodies, rights and health would be subordinated to the protection of the embryo. ...

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Another reason is a child with health problems I mean if you bring that child to live you are bringing him to suffer by seeing himself different and rejected by others, and the last reason that I am exposing and is the one that most of the couples and teens face are lack of preparation from both parents they would not want that kid if they know there not ready or they just can bring another life yet not until they are stable in the relation and in the life of both of the parents. ... And who guaranties you that that child will have a father, if at that age teenagers don't care if th...

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A child needs to be loved and cared. ... The reasons women give for choosing to have abortions are that they have had all the children they want, they are too young or too poor to raise a child, it could be a health risk to the mother, and they do not want a child while they are in school or working. ...

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