Abortion has long been an extremely controversial issue within Australia and throughout the world. ... There is a stigma surrounding this issue that simply cannot be escaped. ... There are many underlying social issues that need to be taken into consideration when contemplating such controversial matters as abortion. ... It is questionable as to whether abortion is essentially an issue of law or one of morals and ethics. ... Socially, the justification for the laws regarding abortion in Australia is perhaps unknown. ...

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There are numerous personal decisions we all make that are influenced by social patterns. Failure to make the right decision can often lead to criticism, punishment, or severe social marginalization. ... As widespread as the issue of abortion is, there is insufficient research on factors that contribute to the decision to terminate or continue a teenage pregnancy. ... In Australia, subjects such as mathematics, and sciences are very often socially defined and associated with academic advancement. ... Overall I have discovered that there are a number of social influences that sway women to elec...

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The Sociological Imagination is fully grasped when one can separately understand the difference between private troubles and social issues. Personal troubles are an individual's own experience of a social problem, whereas social issues are related to social, culture and historical life of people. ... "Grasping the relationship between biography and history to the world society" – which means that it contributes to the realisation of being part of a larger social circle and the link between the personal explicit trouble to public issues. ... An issue or public issue means i...

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Also I know that Ryerson's social work program is the largest undergraduate school for social work in Ontario and that is another reason why I picked this program. There is a social issue in which is very important to me is teenage pregnancy. ... Teenage girls getting pregnant to some nations it is just a contemporary social issue, but to me it is a very big issue. ... The reason why I think this is an important issue is that it seems to me most of the girls that considered sex is just a momentary thing in which it is for entertainment or for the sake of it. ... That is why I think tee...

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If the option of abortion is taken from women, it poses a large issue, according to the European Journal of Social Sciences "When an adult, either a woman or a man, states that they are not ready or interested in having a child, it might have a disproportionate future implication. ... In the concerns regarding politics and abortion, abortion is not the only issue women face. ... Most States in which abortion is illegal, they as well do not offer proper reproductive healthcare and prenatal care facilities that can be accessible to all social classes. The lack of reproductive healthcare, pr...

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Abortion poses moral, social, and medical dilemmas. ... The conservative stance on this issue is that the fetus is a person from the moment of conception. ... There are many underlying issues that must be worked out before one can answer this question. ... In further debating the issue with my coworker, the potentiality issue came up; an issue I had not previously considered. ... Abortion is an extremely complex and highly debated public issue that has consumed much of the American social and political arena in the late twentieth century. ...

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Surrogate Motherhood: Potential Conflicts Cannot Be Ignored Anton van Niekerk and Liezl van Zyl aim to address the moral issues of surrogacy by comparing it with prostitution. ... They claim that surrogacy is not similar to prostitution: women's reproductive labor is distinguished from other forms of physical labor because the product is a child, not an object, and it involves social and psychological process of both the surrogate and the commissioning parents in expecting the child (346,347). ... However, since surrogacy is still a controversial issue, we can never overlook potential ...

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SB 528 directs the Department of Social Services to collect data on parenting and pregnant youth. ... Knowing this information is necessary to understand the breadth of this issue and to develop appropriate policies to address it. ... I plan to use social media to help insure the passage of this very important bill. ... While this has long been the case, the issue of parenting youth in foster care has become more pressing with the implementation of extended foster care in California to age 21. ... Second, Senator Yee's legislation puts into place a voluntary, specialized case conference...

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But, I do support the reproductive rights of women, to make their own decisions concerning the issue of abortion. I believe this is a very personal moral issue and that the government should not be involved in our decision-making regarding these rights. ... They have already made reproductive rights a primary target of their ultra-conservative social agenda"(A31). ... In their survey, the right to legal abortion was a strong third among voter concerns, which was ranked among such important issues as social security and public education (A31). ... I strongly support the reproductive rig...

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In fact, adverse circumstances such as financial issues, health problems, and social affair cause abortion to be most women's last resort, even though they are not willing to undergo abortions (Reardon). ... Plus, she will probably have trust issues towards society and this is what we called as a social problem. ... Forced abortion should be revised and all parties involved should think of the pros and cons in order to avoid controversial issues. ...

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The behavioral issues caused from prenatal drug and alcohol exposure affect more then just the afflicted individual. ... According to social psychiatrist, Dr. ... ADHD can also linger into adulthood causing issues in the work place and difficulty developing healthy relationships. ... The effects from prenatal cocaine exposure can cause abnormal arousal regulation, emotional development issues, and lapses in executive functioning. ... If the child is born while the mother is serving time in prison or jail, then the child will be placed in a safe home by Social Services. ...

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One of the most common issues that affect adolescents" behavior is concern with peer approval. Both in sexual behavior and in all other areas of behavior, teenagers strive to attain social acceptance by their peers, which is common at the stage in which teenagers are. ... This motivation for acceptance within a social group can be a very strong driving force that pushes teenagers to start having sex as the notion of "since everyone is doing it" has been instilled in their heads. ... Also related to the issue of teenage sex due to peers is the lack of good communication between parents and teen...

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Hanna Rosin's editorial, "Abortion is Great ", however, makes a declaration of abortion being a social good, and urges people to start embracing the usefulness of abortion. ... According to Christopher Hale, the real issue that our society should be working on is the issue of an imperfect society. Rather that spending much time and energy on debating over abortion, one ought to focus on issues such as poor education, unequal enforcement of drug laws and unfair disadvantages created by the imperfect laws of the nation. ... In her provocative editorial titled, "Abortion is Great"," Hann...

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Abortion has been around for centuries in the United States and to understand how abortion became a social issue and how it developed you must explore the history of it. ... On the issue of birth defects pro-choice activists believe that since deformities and Down's syndrome can be detected during the early stage of a pregnancy a child should not be born to live a life of suffering. ... Regarding the issue of economics, teen pregnancy is also included under this category; abortion is used as a form of birth control because they are not financial stable. ... The two opposing sides of abo...

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" The social standards behind pregnancy encourage parental love for the child but the surrogate industry encourages just the opposite. ... " Because the surrogate industry suppresses the surrogate mother's emotions and claims not to be responsible for any issues concerning the surrogate mother's emotion, women constantly experience grief and heartache after they give birth to the child. ... These three issues arise because people fail to acknowledge and treat the surrogate mother's emotions, which occur through this process, with respect. ...

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Let me emphatically state at the outset of this short blog: I have always thought the elective termination of pregnancy (ETOL) was a serious moral issue. ... Though I don't think that a fetus is a person with a personal or social identity, it is biologically human "and that alone is a relevant piece of moral information. ... Recognizing the moral value of fetal life alone is neither a sufficient condition for fully appreciating the gravity of the moral issue of abortion nor for claiming one is pro-life. ... If we are to take human equality seriously "that women have full moral ...

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Martha Field, in her work, Surrogate Motherhood, attempts to address that issue and formulate what she believes is the best resolution in conflicts between surrogate mothers and adoptive parents. ... In cases where the biological mother wants to keep the child, the "ultimate issue is whether she or the infertile couple have parental rights," (Field, p.7). ... Often times the women who agree to act as surrogates mother are influenced by social and economic factors. ... In Field's book, she quotes a social worker who asserts that "Surrogate agreements should not be enforced by the cou...

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The argument about when life actually begins has always been a debatable issue between individuals. ... However, debating about an issue like abortion is not only specifically narrowed on individuals that rely purely on religion, to present their different views and attempt to gather the whole of population to share a general view with them; because these people tend to ignore doctors and nurses' that have a direct involvement feel towards abortion, especially carrying out the procedure in situations that it is not necessary, such as abortion as a result of committing adultery.To most rel...

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First and foremost, this bill is dangerous to young women physically, mentally, and socially. ... With an issue as controversial as abortion, one's decision about having an abortion should be confidential. ...

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There are twelve states that have issued parental involvement laws that are deemed ineffective based on their language that may allow notification to be given to another adult family member or that the abortionist themselves may be able to consent to the abortion on the minor's behalf. ...

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A survey by Virginia's Department of Education (VADOE) in 2012 of school health profiles included all middle and high schools in the state to determine the health policies and curricula of those schools with respect to HIV/AIDS, tobacco use, nutrition, and other health issues. ...

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Prenatal cocaine exposure consumption became a major health issue of the United States in the 1980's, when a reasonable form of cocaine known as "crack" emerged and became highly accessible to its' users. ... (PCE) varies with age, social interaction and the capacity of the brain capabilities .Related findings have stated that these abnormalities in language restrictions are due to the malfunction of the sensory auditory processing. ...

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First, abortion came out into the public view; by the mid-1840's the fact that Americans practiced abortion was an obvious social reality, constantly visible for the population as a whole. ... Abortion was no longer marginal practice whose incident probably approximated that of illegitimacy, but rather a wide spread social phenomenon during that period (46). ...

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First, abortion came out into the public view; by the mid-1840's the fact that Americans practiced abortion was an obvious social reality, constantly visible for the population as a whole. ... Abortion was no longer marginal practice whose incident probably approximated that of illegitimacy, but rather a wide spread social phenomenon during that period (46). ...

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First, abortion came out into the public view; by the mid-1840's the fact that Americans practiced abortion was an obvious social reality, constantly visible for the population as a whole. ... Abortion was no longer marginal practice whose incident probably approximated that of illegitimacy, but rather a wide spread social phenomenon during that period (46). ...

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