About one-fourth of all pregnant women bleed some time during pregnancy, however, up to 50 percent of these women carry the fetus to full term. ... They may think that they are not ready to become mothers at such an early age. ... Other women say that they get abortions because they have gone through a physical trauma or abuse. The fact of having a child or carrying a child that is not wanted or desired makes them have an abortion, instead of giving that child away or not taking care of that child as they should because of their previous experiences. ... Nowadays there are many things o...

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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. The intent of this bill is to force more women to carry their pregnancies to term; in other words, this bill takes the decision to have a child away from the mother and places it the hands of someone else. ... Many young women run the risk of being kicked out of their homes in the event that their parents find out that they are pregnant. ... What they will not tell you is that, though teen abortions decreased in Virginia, stu...

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Diotima teaches Socrates that the lover of good things wants to possess them so that he might be happy (204e). This definition of a lover applies to everyone, for Diotima's assumption, supported by Socrates, is that "everyone wants good things to be his own forever." (205a) There is a need to refine this broad definition which would include as lovers those who try to attain the good by any means. ... Heterosexual relations and the child a woman bears as a result of them are a beautiful end of love because they perpetuate man. ... Diotima says that men who try to gain the immortality they ...

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Because a fetus has the potential to become a full-fledged member of the human community, all things equal, we should not destroy it. But rarely in human life are all things equal. ... Wade and restrict a woman's right to reproductive choices, which they are chipping away at in Red states. ... Which is to say, the treacherous message to women is: we expect you to carry the fetus to term whether you want to or not because we value the fetus more than we value your freedom and therefore you do not have full moral standing. ... But the fact that they occur at all should be alarming to anyo...

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Or is it merely a conglomeration of cells waiting to come in to the outside world to do these things? ... The study demonstrated an effect of repeated music exposure in multiple fetuses, carried over into the newborn period, suggesting that it is possible for the human fetus to learn. ... The mothers in the music group could not hear the music played to the fetus through the earphones, but it is possible that they could have felt the vibrations on their abdomen. ... Thus, they conducted a study using a habituation model to examine the ability of the fetus to learn. ... They found that f...

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Once the female agrees to carry the couple's child and give it to them once it is conceived, the surrogate is inseminated with the husband's sperm, usually by means of artificial insemination. ... However, since surrogacy cases involve a child, things are not so cut and dry. ... Surrogate mothers admit that at one time they agreed to enter the contract with the infertile couple; however, they feel their decision was not valid since they were "not sufficiently informed" nor was the decision "voluntary to bind her to give up her child" (Field, 70). ... Many of them claim that they u...

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They do not think ahead to the inexplicable damage that it could do to their fetus. What they do not know is that when a woman drinks while pregnant it could do damage, and pose problems not only to herself, but to the fetus that she is carrying. ... As FAS children grow into FAS adults, their level of development and how they developed begins to show in everything that they do. ... The two things involved that stand out the most are teratogens and acetaldehydes. These two stand out as the things that are not in a detailed way nutritionally involved. ...

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Denman, one of the leading obstetrical writers of the day to reassure his readers, "In abortions, dreadful and alarming as they are sometimes it is great comfort to know that they are almost universally void of danger either from hemorrhage, or any other account." ... 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"...

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Denman, one of the leading obstetrical writers of the day to reassure his readers, "In abortions, dreadful and alarming as they are sometimes it is great comfort to know that they are almost universally void of danger either from hemorrhage, or any other account." ... 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"...

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Denman, one of the leading obstetrical writers of the day to reassure his readers, "In abortions, dreadful and alarming as they are sometimes it is great comfort to know that they are almost universally void of danger either from hemorrhage, or any other account." ... 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"...

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