The new literature states that episiotomies should not be given unless the baby is in breech position, the babies" shoulders are stuck in the birth canal, or if the fetal heart rate lowers meaning the baby is in distress. ... Women have a choice to submit a birth plan for their labour experience in this birth plan they can include no episiotomies unless the fetus is in distress, regardless of perennial tears. ... "The birth plan helps women and their partners examine their options and take an active part in planning their birth experience. ... The birth plan may be ignored if there is complica...

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In the early 1910s, espousing artificial means of birth control remained controversial. ... In 1914, socialist and public-health nurse Margaret Sanger was arrested for publishing The Woman Rebel, a newsletter that contained articles on sexuality and birth control. ... After the charges against her were dropped in 1916, Sanger opened America's first birth control clinic in Brooklyn, New York. Over the next few years, Sanger and other activists gained national support as they wrote and lectured widely on the issue of birth control. ... With the support of physicians, birth control ca...

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Regarding the mother's health she may face; anaemia, hypertension, eclampsia, depressive disorders if she decides to go through with the pregnancy, the child is at a high propensity to be born preterm and with a lower birth weight (Teen pregnancy, 2012). ... Pregnancy will also include all pregnancy outcomes; births, abortions, and miscarriages. ... The prevalence of teen pregnancy according to the article Prevalence and Characteristics of Teen Motherhood in Canada "it is estimated that 40,000 adolescent girls become pregnant every year and about half of them give birth"(Al-Sah...

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Experts estimate that the combination of lost tax revenues and increased spending on public assistance, child health care, foster care and the criminal justice system totals about $7 billion annually for births in teens. Despite a 20-year low in the teen pregnancy rate and an impressive decline in the teen birth rate, the United States still has the highest teen pregnancy rate of any industrialized country (Casey Foundation, 1996). ... In Kids Having Kids: A Robin Hood Foundation Special Report on the Costs of Adolescent Childbearing, researchers note, "During her first 12 years of parenthood,...

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People who are wishy washy with contraceptives, saying that artificial birth control is totally wrong, but that natural family planning is okay, are not going along with Catholic teaching. ... This says that the Catholic Church deems it wrong just to think about cutting out procreation, which, the pull out method and natural family planning both do even without any birth control pills, condoms, diaphragms, vaginal rings, or other forms of artificial contraceptives. ... The debate over, "the use of contraceptives is not a new controversy," (Locke) says Journalist Laura Locke, this mea...

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Identify a topic related to religion and sex (examples include but are not limited to: celibacy, virginity, sex as sinful, Adam and Eve, procreation, birth control, abortion, etc.). ... Identify a topic related to international human sexuality issues (examples include but are not limited to: female genital mutilation, prostitution, gender roles and expectations, female vs. male offspring, virginity, fertility, birth control, etc.). ...

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After birth the raw edges are sutured again, often to the same size as existed before marriage to recreate the illusion of virginal tightness. ... Obstructed labor can cause life-threatening complications for both mother and child, as can the recurring de- and re- infibulation for intercourse and repeated childbirth (often ten to fifteen births). ...

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When birth control pill and other means of contraception became readily available, people began to believe that sex was not only for reproduction, Today, people are so concerned about sexually transmitted diseases that even bringing the word "sex" out into the open has to be accompanied with a sex education discussion. ...

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Now using Steinem's quote it's a fact we learned that god was man it's not a fact because as per Thomas Paine "Jesus Christ wrote no account of himself, of his birth, parentage, or any thing else; not a line of what is called the New Testament is of his own writing". ... In the song Keep Ya Head Up by Tupac Shakur he raps "And since we all came from a woman, Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman I wonder why we take from our women, Why we rape our women, do we hate our women" When I think of rape and compare it to those lyrics it saddens me becaus...

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Opponents of these programmes claim that providing access to condoms and even discussing the benefits of birth control and disease prevention methods other than abstinence encourages teenagers to engage in sexual activity that might otherwise refrain from. ... Funded programmes are prohibited from directly discussing birth control. ...

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The Bible refers to marriage many times throughout itself, whether it is direct or indirect. "God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God," is a quote Max Lucado had said when writing about ma...

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Sex offenders are a highly diverse group of people, but all are individuals who have at least one of the following crimes in common: have committed violent sexual assault on a stranger, have had inappropriate sexual contact with a family member, have molested a child or any other inappropriate and criminal sexual behavior. Currently, in the United States, there are a total of 722,499 individuals who are registered sex offenders (U.S. Census Bureau, 2010). However, this number does not reflect every person who has committed a sexual offense. Research shows that a lot of cases go unreported whi...

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