Moreover, it needed additional three years plus for Congress to enact a legislative measure to ensure this medication, Plan B 'morning-after' pill made available accordingly. ... It is important to note that the Plan B 'morning-after' pill can help prevent unwanted pregnancies if the girl takes it within 72 hours after sexual intercourse. ... The 'morning-after' pill has served people for over ten years favorably. ... Before the approval of the Plan B pills, it was extremely troublesome to obtain these pills particularly for non-students (Lillian, 1). ... In t...

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We need to think of everything before making the decision of having an abortion. ... Another combination of feelings women experience after an abortion are shame and anger. ... There is no law to inform the women of the risks before the abortion. ... Dana Dovitch in her book "Your Guide to Spiritual Recovery After an Abortion". ... So take care, think before you act and thank you!...

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Before abortion was legal, abortion laws were regularly and more extensively enforced on doctors, yet were never actually meant to be used against women. ... After a spontaneous abortion many women become depressed, avoidant, and have negative emotional responses over time. ... If a woman's mental health is bad before the abortion it will increase the psychological effects for the worse, rather than if her mental health was strong before the procedure. Counseling for the woman before and after the abortion also plays a role in the woman's mental health before and after the abortion...

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After an abortion procedure, most women feel like they have killed a person and therefore are psychologically tormented. ... The longitudinal and prospective studies focus on the time factor after abortion where the mental implications show, the variable of interest and the explanations of the co-variation between the mental health of the woman and the time of abortion (Schachter & Kächele, 2013). ... Recommendations and Conclusion The research study can apply to psychologists who can focus in the individual variability of the matter by accessing their patients' reasons to abort and ther...

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The only time abortions cannot be performed is after the 24 weeks. ... This case placed a nationwide ban on the use of an abortion method, either before or after viability, in which the baby is partly delivered alive before being put to death. ... Before Roe v. ... There has been medical evidence supporting the fact that an unborn child can feel pain by twenty weeks after they are fertilized. ... Ultrasounds provide a mother with the ability to see their unborn child before they are born. ...

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The passing of this bill requires that minors seeking abortions must obtain parental consent (that is to be notarized) before a physician can carry about the abortion. ... Abortions done during or after the second trimester of pregnancy are much riskier to the woman than abortions performed within the first few months of pregnancy. ... Granted, it would be ideal if the girls thought of these consequences before having sex, but neglecting the possible consequences of one's actions should not have lead to irreversible less desirable outcomes. ... Even before Governor George Allen passed ...

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The hampering of teenage pregnancy on ones education has been given a substantial amount of attention, whereas none has been given to young women who left school before falling pregnant. Evans found that teenagers who had left school before falling pregnant were more inclined to carry out the pregnancy than those who chose to abort. Furthermore, young women who chose to abort their pregnancies were those who fell pregnant soon after completing high school. ...

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Discussed in this paper, are reasons teenagers should not seek consent from their parents before getting birth control pills. ... Secondly, teenagers should not seek consent from their parents before getting birth control because that decision could damage teens. ... For this reason, I personally think that teenagers should be aware of this health risks before getting contraceptives. ... In the final analysis, contraceptive pills are preventive measures teenagers take to protect themselves after having an unprotected intercourse to stop them from getting pregnant and contacting diseases. ... B...

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Religious beliefs, politics, incident of pregnancy, support, economy, long term consequences, such as regrets and depression, being able to take responsibility, and health issues are major factors that must be taken in consideration before resulting to abortion. ... Even after criminalization of abortion, women continued to have abortions in roughly the same proportions. ... A new contraceptive, which is also a form of abortion, that has been created is the Morning After Pill. This pill is to be taken within 72 hours after sexual intercourse, preferably within 36 hours. ... As mentioned before...

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Before modern methods  of birth control,  women depended on withdrawal or periodic abstinence. ... Women's lives would never be the same after the innovation of the Pill. ... Ladies could seek after advanced education and expert objectives without being held back by pregnancy. ... They could practice sexual opportunities, arrange a family, and seek after their most elevated proficient objectives. ... They can seek after their goals without needing to take a couple of years off to be a mother. ...

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Abortion is scientifically defined as the termination of a pregnancy after contraception which involves destruction of the embryo or foetus. ... From a scientific view it is believed that life begins well before contraception - two individuals of the opposite sex come together and create a new life. ... Once again, it is not permissible to abort the child after 120 days. If the mother's life is in danger after giving birth, the foetus can be aborted. This is the only case where the foetus can be aborted even after 4 months. ...

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If these deficiencies or diseases are left untreated, they may have long term effects on the infant after birth. ... Another study states, "Women supplemented before conception or early in pregnancy have reduced neonatal mortality, and their children have improved IQ scores and fewer neurologic abnormalities when compared with control groups." ... The maternal thyroid hormone is used for fetal thyroid development around 4 weeks after conception and continues until birth. ... Preterm infants are babies that are born before 37 weeks gestation. ... This medication is recommended during and ...

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Teratogens are thought to have the ability to affect the fetus about 10 to14 days after conception. ... Chickenpox is contagious one to two days before the appearance of the rash until the blisters have dried and become scabs. ... This syndrome is rarely seen if the infection occurs after 20 weeks of pregnancy. ...

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Religious ideals, range from having an abortion before 120 days after the pregnancy, such as in Islam, to considering it a sin to have an abortion. However, the anti-abortionists' reasons also come from the belief that a human being is born after conception, and that the death of that fetus resembles the murder of an innocent human being. ... Since, after abortion a mother is more susceptible to breast cancer, and to periods of depression. ... If a child born with congenital disease, will tend to live a live full of suffering, and in other cases might die after birth. ...

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After this decision, abortion has become a topic that many find worthy of support. ... Lastly, after in vitro fertilization, the fertilized eggs not used in procedures are routinely thrown out. ... However, the cardiovascular system begins formation around 22 days after the child is conceived. ... Also, Missouri is trying to initiate a bill that expects pregnant women to receive consent from the fathers before choosing abortion, except in cases of rape or incest. ... In fact, 61% of Americans say that abortion should be illegal after the heartbeat is detected ( first month); 72% of Americans b...

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Teenagers in the United States are experimenting with sexual activities more and more today than ever before, and the sad thing about this issue is that it is becoming common-place in our society, because it is not being frowned upon as it were just a couple of years ago. ... Also alarming, is the growing rate of children having sexual intercourse before they are of the age of thirteen. ... The society, peer pressure, and the media play the major part in gearing adolescents to finding out about, knowing, and finally engaging in sexual intercourse before they are both physically and mentally ...

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From the very start of the American life, right after the Revolutionary War, the rights of women were intruded upon. ... She wanted women, who before were shunned for getting pregnant before marriage, to have a choice, even if it was through non-consented. ... After the Chicago Fire tragedy of 1871, Mary Harris traveled throughout the United States and encouraged both men and women to fight for better working conditions for themselves. ...

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Through this shared experience, a natural attachment with the baby grows before the baby is born. ... Using a self-report questionnaire method, roughly 200 men were assessed both prenatal (23 weeks pregnant) and postnatal (3, 6, and 12 months after birth). ... For first time parents there is a lot of mixed emotions the will arise during and after the pregnancy. ... Since mothers carry the child they form a bond with the baby before it is even born and have more support as well as support groups to turn to; unlike the fathers, they also have less of a struggle in gauging the timing of the proc...

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Simpson continues, "zygote[s] are the immediate stage after conception and the 1st stage of the unborn in the womb [Simpson 4].... It should be said that abortions generally occur before the within the first trimester, long before the 13th week of gestation, occurring with a 33% chance prior to the 6th week, and significantly falling thereafter. ... Abortion presents a distinct chance for a woman to remove a cluster of fetal cells before they have a sense of humanity. ...

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After quickening, the expulsion and destruction of the fetus without due case was considered a crime, because the fetus itself had manifested some semi-balance of a separate existence: the ability to move (pg3). ... Moreover, this practice was neither morally nor legally wrong in the vast majority of Americans, provided it was accomplished before quickening. ... In 1834 legislators there made attempted abortion a misdemeanor without specifying any stage of gestation, and they made the death of either the woman or the fetus after quickening a felony (39,40), Alabama enacted a major code revisio...

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Moreover, this practice was neither morally nor legally wrong in the vast majority of Americans, provided it was accomplished before quickening. ... In 1834 legislators there made attempted abortion a misdemeanor without specifying any stage of gestation, and they made the death of either the woman or the fetus after quickening a felony (39,40), Alabama enacted a major code revision during the 1840/1841 session of its legislature that made the abortion of "any pregnant woman" a statuate crime for the first time in that state, but pregnant meant quickened (40). ... Third, the types of woman hav...

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After quickening, the expulsion and destruction of the fetus without due case was considered a crime, because the fetus itself had manifested some semi-balance of a separate existence: the ability to move (pg3). ... Moreover, this practice was neither morally nor legally wrong in the vast majority of Americans, provided it was accomplished before quickening. ... In 1834 legislators there made attempted abortion a misdemeanor without specifying any stage of gestation, and they made the death of either the woman or the fetus after quickening a felony (39,40), Alabama enacted a major code revisio...

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For example, a 2006 study of Texas middle school students participating in a sex education program designed by medical school professionals found that these students expressed an intention to delay sexual activity until after high school (Sulak et al.) ... After consultation with parents and school officials, the focus of the program was on consequences of teen sexual activity, the importance of delaying sexual intimacy, character development, and encouraging the ability to refuse sexual advances (Sulak et al.) Comparing before-and-after surveys of the students' knowledge and attitudes, s...

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The incarceration of pregnant women should focus not only on the inmates unique physical and mental needs during their pregnancy but their status as mothers after the child is born-and most crucial the children themselves who are severed from their mothers. ... According to the 1996 National Counsel on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) study pregnant incarcerated women also noted that there was, A lack of adequate prenatal and postnatal medical care (obstetrics), lack of prenatal nutrition, lack of adequate levels of methadone maintenance for opiate-dependent pregnant inmates, inadequate educat...

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Abortion is the ending of pregnancy before birth; it results in the death of an embryo or a fetus. There is no way to reverse the procedure so women have to be one hundred percent sure that they want to have an abortion before they actually do it. ... Abortions were illegal only after quickening, which was usually in the fourth or fifth month of pregnancy, when a woman felt the fetus move. Most abortions were performed after quickening because many women did not know they were pregnant until they felt the fetus move since there was no form of a pregnancy test. ... Abortions during this time ...

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