A parent who wears its child has also some great advantages. The closeness to the child makes them feel loved and secure as well. "The physical contact with the infant causes mothers to release a hormone called oxytocin. ... The position of the child should look like the letter "M", as if the baby would squat. ... During the first two years the most important thing for the child is closeness to their parents. ...

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Television shows have a significant impact on child development as well. ... According to the University of Michigan's health website, (http://judiciary.senate.gov/oldsite/mediavio.htm) an average American child will see 200,000 violent acts and 16,000 murders on TV by age 18. ... Instead of games of the past like Super Mario and Need for Speed, there are games such as Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty. ...

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If they do end up giving birth to unwanted child, it would lead to the problem of desertion or the mother neglecting the child and leading to its death. There are some women who have health problems that prevent them from being able to go through childbirth and for the reason that any form of birth control is not 100% effective, these women may at some point call for an abortion. ... However, if the child were to survive the birth, and not the mother, it would be forced to live a life without a mother. ... Suppose if just one of these women were to become with child, how can they be expected...

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The sad thing though is that a lot of young girls these days take advantage of that and look to abortion as a method of "birth control" (if you can even call it that). ... There are also those who suffer from certain medical disorders and cannot deliver a child without endangering the child and/or themselves. ... One after another describe the horrors of knowing that a child, their child, was being savagely ripped apart inside of their womb, then vacuumed out and left on the edge of a sink to die. ... I too now believe that all un-born children should be given a chance to live and if the mot...

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Ovulation is what happens when a group of eggs form in small sacs called follicles and every month they will erupt. ... The eggs then moves to what you call the fallopian tube. ... Slowly it will make its way through the fallopian tube to the uterus which is called implantation. ... Now the question that is brought up is what if it is a child produced by rape? I feel a though you should give the child a chance and if you do not want the responsibility then give it to a family that does and either cant or wants to help a child with adoption. ...

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To ensure that no fragments of tissue remain, a spoon-tipped metal instrument called a curette may be then used to scrape the uterine lining. ... Pregnancies in the earlier part of the second trimester may be terminated by a special suction curettage, sometimes combined with forceps, in a procedure called dilation and evacuation. ... There are also many teenagers that say that they do not have the money or cannot afford to bring a child into the world. So the best option for them in that case is to abort the child and get their life stable. ... The fact of having a child or carrying a chil...

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The important thing to really understand is that in the first trimester, when the "baby" is still a mass of mush has no heart beat, it is living totally off the mother and can actually be called a parasite. ... A child cannot acquire any rights until it is born." ... Simply if you can't bear raising a child because of rape, money problems, or commitment, just give the child up for adoption; but what if you"re a minor and by giving birth you would risk harming your self. Pro-lifer's don't seem to care about what, moral, and physical challenges a woman going up for adoption the...

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D, quotes "How can you call yourself a loving Christian if you would force a victim of a violent rape to give birth to a rapist's child (http://nichole.simonweb.com)?" Who would want to tell their child who their real father was when in reality that child was conceived during a gruesome, heartless act of rape. ... In the case of a divorce, the child is still able to see his or her real father, whereas in the case of a rape the child's father would be the rapist. This would mean that the child would never experience their real father and the mother would always have the horrible m...

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Using muscles of the abdomen and rectum, she bears down until the doctor is able to see the head, which is called crowning. ... All of this is accomplished because of the process of the miracle called birth....

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One, there might be something very wrong with the child and the child might be better off never being born than being born and having a life with many serious problems. ... Having a child of someone who raped you could have great emotional stress on some people. ... The pro's to pro-life and the cons to pro-choice are as follows: You are sparring a life of an unborn child, the child could be adopted by a family that wants a child, and you don't sell a child short of any potential he or she had by aborting it. The con's to pro-life and the pro's to pro-choice are a...

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David's mother has a rare genetic disease that could leave her sons without a functioning immune system called SCID. ... In David's short life of living, he did not live like a normal child. ... I wouldn't be able to bring a child to this world and watch him suffer. Watching David Vetter grow up in an incubator for 12 years is just an abuse to the poor child. David was a child that was suffering. ...

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The people that are for abortion are called the Pro-Choice group. ... If a mother is carrying a child and the child's birth has a chance of killing or hurting the mother then the option to abort is a good possibility. ... Another reason for abortion is if a woman is raped and is carrying and unwanted child then she has the choice of going through the birthing process or she can abort the child. ... If a child is conceived then they should be allowed to at least attempt to live. ... The only thing against this argument is that the child may or may not be considered a living human yet. ...

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It is a terrible disease that affects the child and the family during the child's lifetime. ... It is very important to diagnose the child with FAS though. ... A child with FAS requires more care than a child who doesn't have FAS. ... Caring for a child with FAS is very expensive also. ... ((HOT LINE)) - for women who don't think they can stop drinking and are pregnant (or they think they might be) call:...

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She also forbids Chris to call Helen or to come over to the house to visit her. ... He runs of to the Hospital and finds Helen and his newborn child in her arms. Chris goes of to the University as he planned but keeps in contact with Helen and the child and he keeps writing letters to his child for her to read when she gets older. ... Maybe it could even give guidance for lost teenagers who are expecting a child. ...

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This child and many other children have been murdered by an operation called abortion. ... If a person killed a child not yet subjected to puberty he or she would still stand trial for murder. ... This shows that adoption is better than abortion for the child. ... There are other choices that are more appropriate and less morbid for both the mother and the child, adoption for example. The operation causes unnecessary anguish for both the child and the mother. ...

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This is the murder of an innocent child by a procedure known as abortion. Abortion stops the beating of an innocent child's heart. ... They believe abortion is saving the child from abuse. Abortion, however, is the most severe case of child abuse. ... The procedure is called a suction aspiration. ...

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Abortion is unfair to the unborn child. ... Abortion strips a child from all those experiences and rights. ... No term can precisely express the heartbreak that abortion causes, some call it Post-Abortion Trauma. ... If a mother chooses to abort her unborn child is it right? ... Most importantly, is it fair to the unborn child? ...

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Pro-life activists believe that every child conceived should be born. ... In addition, it is one of those topics that when debated, both sides have good very points on the overall issue, but more than likely neither side will ever agree upon the other"s view.Personally, I agree with the pro-life activist as well as the pro-choice activist because on one hand I believe no one should get rid of baby not even a so called "potential-baby". ... Also, I do believe that when a "child" gets pregnant they too should be able to make the choice in abortion because I believe a child has no business havin...

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They believe it is against their religion to kill a child that has not been born yet. ... Anti-abortion advocates, however, feel the legal rights of the unborn child outweigh the legal rights of the pregnant woman. ... Early in Canadian history, all abortions were illegal but they passed a bill called R.V. ... The thought of being responsible for carrying, giving birth to, and raising a child that resulted from the rape can be much too overwhelming that's why some people take the easy way out by aborting. ... An abortion can occur spontaneously, in which case it is usually called a miscar...

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The baby's development is grouped into three stages, called periods of the zygote, the embryo and the fetus. ... Third of all, a tissue called the placenta, which is really rich in blood vessels. ... The developing child's facial features turn out to be clearer and can suck its thumb, swallow, hiccup and move around. ... As the sixth month begins the developing child is about 21-25 cm long and around 8-12 ounces in weight. ... By the ninth month the child is now between 43-46 cm long and around 5-6 pounds. ...

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In the mid-1980's, leaders of the anti abortion movement produced a video called the "The Silent Scream." ... Originally designed to frighten women who turned to so-called "crisis pregnancy centers" for assistance with their problem pregnancies. ... She damaged her own body but could not self-abort her child. ... The child died only five and a half months into her life. Beth Armstrong strongly believes that if she was to get pregnant again, and the child was undeveloped she would want to abort the child before it can come to full term. ...

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It is for this reason that the fight for the pre-born child is often referred to as a war in relation to numbers. ... Some people may say that the unborn, commonly called fetuses, are not alive, but that is not true. ... A child is a unique human being and receives a genetic code all of its own upon the time of conception. ... Different types of abortion include seizing body parts and ripping them off of the child and crushing the skull or snapping the spine in or to remove the child. ... Parents are responsible for the well being of their children, by virtue of having created the child need...

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These type of pregnancies lead to hardship, which usually ends in either the teenage parent dropping out of high school, the child being put up for adoption, or the child being aborted. ... (2) The teenage parent felt that they were not mature enough to have a child. ... A program that originated in Ohio called LEAP, (Learning, Earning And Parenting), encourages teen mothers not to abort their child, put their child up for adoption, or drop out of high school. ... According to Child Trends, more than 75 percent of all unmarried teen mothers went on welfare within 5 years of the birth of th...

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Will the pain and suffering of the actual abortion outweigh the pleasure of killing your unborn child? Will you live without regret or guilt of killing that child? ... Abortion is the killing of an unborn child. ... These are called partial-birth abortions. ... Now when we think of abortion do we still believe that it is morally justified to kill an unborn child. ...

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Why hamper a child's" well being by not giving that child all the nurturing it deserves. ... When the child is sick she must stay up all night. Where is the father of this child? ... Ellis effectively uses emotion to call her audience to action. ... Why should women be force to have a child that she does not want? ...

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