An estimated 40,000 to 375,000 babies that were exposed to drugs and alcohol were born with birth defects such as cleft pallet, heart murmurs, abnormalities in facial features, etc (Alcohol and drug related Birth Defects). ... First she has the option to use contraception during sexual intercourse, this being condoms, birth control, spermicidal, you name it its out there. ... This doesn't include drinking, smoking, or using drugs. ... Chemical dependency is a disease and it is hard to control, even so it must be controlled. ... There are many ways to argue this I"m sure, but one can&#x...

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Poor, inner city, undereducated women who may live with drug addiction, violence, and a sense of hopelessness. ... Many teens that have experienced childhood sexual abuse don't believe that they can control what happens to them or their bodies. ... Early sexual behavior has been related to various types of risk taking behaviors, such as alcohol, drugs, and delinquency. For example, alcohol and drug use appear to lower teens" to make rational choices for themselves and decrease the likelihood of contraceptive use. ... This is an attempt to obtain control over others, such as boyfriends or ...

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I feel there are many reasons why people should use birth control. ... With many different forms of contraception available, I think that birth control should be used. Numerous religious groups argue that birth control should not be available. ... There are other positive outcomes to using birth control. ... Some reasons are if the user does not follow the directions, there is inconsistent use of the contraceptive, the condom breaks during sex, or the user is taking antibiotics or other drugs with oral contraceptive birth control pills. ...

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Before modern methods  of birth control,  women depended on withdrawal or periodic abstinence. ... It was not until 1960 that the Food and Drug Administration authoritatively affirmed the oral preventative. ... Such pregnancies still happen today, yet in much less numbers than before the birth control pill and other successful manifestations of birth control came into boundless utilization. ... Since ladies could arrange their pregnancies, they had control of their lives. ... The Pill gave ladies control over their lives. ...

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Unemployment, pollution, civil war, cloning, birth control, drug abuse, overpopulation, teen pregnancy, paternity leave, and abortion are some of these issues. Birth control exists as the solution of some of these matters that may cause very important problems. ... Moreover, teen pregnancy is another issue that includes birth control need. ... Birth control is main savior of overpopulation. ... Today these matters are very current, and their common solution is safe birth control methods. ...

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We can no longer look the other way when it comes to the youth and the issues that we face today whether it is drugs or alcohol abuse, crime, sexual orientation, sexually transmitted infections or pregnancy. ... There are condoms, birth control and many other forms of protection that are accessible to almost everyone. And if something goes wrong, there is the Plan B pill, which is not birth control but an emergency contraceptive. It's not as reliable as regular birth control which is why you shouldn't use it every time you have sex, but it's a backup plan for those you are conce...

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Some things to consider are good eating habits, not taking drugs or drinking alcohol, and of course getting exercise. ... During and after the pregnancy of your child, drugs and alcohol are very hazardous to your baby. Some subscription drugs can be very fatal to the way your child grows and develops. For example, hormone pills used for birth control or treatment of reproductive disorders can cause limb malformations; aspirin can prolong labor and can have the effect of bleeding in the mother or baby. Other types of drugs like narcotics can make you have delivery complications, reduce the...

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The F.D.A. recently approved a drug called "the morning after pill". This drug is given to rape victims or anyone who has a reason to believe they might be pregnant. ... Both of these drugs have caused controversies between political leaders. ... s decision on the drug. ... These people have a need to control what a woman does with her body. ...

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A very strong argument from a Pro-life stand point would be to point out the different ways of birth-control other than an abortion. The easiest way birth control that is 100 percent accurate is not having sex at all -- abstinence. ... This drug has been studied for over ten years and has been approved by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) in September of 2000 therefore stating it as a safe drug with proper usage. The proposed bill would restrict physicians that would be able to prescribe the drug to that of physicians that are trained to perform the abortion procedures. ...

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ABORTION: Birth Control or Legal Murder? Approximately 1.6 million murders are committed legally each year. This is the murder of an innocent child by a procedure known as abortion. Abortion stops the beating of an innocent child's heart. People must no longer ignore the scientific evidence...

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RU-486 is a drug given to women, and it causes them to have a miscarriage. ... Second the drug misoprostol is taken causing the actual miscarriage of the fetus. ... This drug directly attacks the fast growing cells in the fetus and causes it to die. Then the drug misoprostol is given to cause the contractions needed to expel the fetus. ... In 1917 Planned Parenthood is formed to inform and use birth control and abortion. ...

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Especially living in the El Paso area they said all they would have to do is to across the border into Mexico to find a doctor that would do the procedure or find a pharmacy that sells drugs to have a miscarriage.1 One minor had told me that she was having an abortion due to her being to young she was only 15 years old and that she could not afford to keep the baby, and it would set all her priorities to the side.1 All the people asked in this survey said that their parents did not teach them or talk to them about safe sex. ... Given that many families do not educate their children about respo...

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In the other hand the abortion ban would create lots of controversies, since the pro-choice activist debated that if abortion was banned, the women would have lost control of their body since they are force into giving an unwanted birth. ... Further more, if the abortion is ban, then those women who are addicted to drugs or diagnosed with AIDS would all be force to give birth. ... If the life begins inside the mother's womb, then is it is against the religious teaching to prevent an unwanted birth with birth control pills? ... In the other hand there is equally large percentage of peop...

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One woman, Margaret Sanger, created birth control so that women could have the choice of when they wanted to have a child. ... Margaret Sanger was an American writer, sex educator, nurse and famously a birth control activist during the early twentieth century. Sanger was the one to popularize the term "birth control". ... In 1965, at the age of 81, Margaret Sanger witnessed the disposal of the Cornstock laws in addition to her "magic pill" (Enovid) being approved by the Food and Drug Administration. ... Margaret Sanger, striving for abortion and birth control rights for wom...

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The researchers conducted a prospective randomized controlled study using an exposure model to determine the ability of the fetus to learn. ... The control group was subjected to all of the same conditions, only the headphones placed over the abdomen played no music. ... The researchers found that both the control and music groups had significantly more heart rate and activity transitions during exposure to music compared to the baseline period. ... Furthermore, the lack of a control group leaves room for many problems to occur. ... Fetal learning: a randomized controlled study. ...

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The department tells abortion providers what drugs and equipment they must have on hand, how big some of their rooms must be, and the specific temperatures allowed in procedure and recovery rooms. These regulations are part of new licensing law that stems from a surge of anti-abortion legislation through Republican-controlled legislatures in many states. ... It doesn't help that Governor Sam Brownback who approved the law is an anti-abortion Republican and abortion opponents helped to facilitate the law through the GOP-controlled Legislature. ...

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RU 486, a widely used method of birth control, in some cases even resulted in death. ... Basically, this drug executes the abortion process by starving the embryo. ... Prominent drugs, such as RU 486 can also be a threat to the safety of the mother. ...

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To plan, choose, and exercise personal responsibility, one must have control of reproduction." ... "Women who have abortions are more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol and have multiple pregnancies, with more abortions, and broken relationships," says Reardon. ...

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Another argument in the abortion debate is about whether making abortion illegal will be "controlling women" (Pollitt, 2). ... Pollitt proves that it does control women by using comparisons of different state laws when it comes to abortion. She discuses that in most states with anti-choice laws there is "more concern with drug use by pregnant women than with the battering and killing of pregnant women" (Pollitt, 2). ...

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Darroch, Singh, & Frost, (2001) found that the use of the birth control pill by teenage girls was lower in the United States than in the other developed countries studied. ... Teenage pregnancy is also linked to other problematic adolescent behaviors such as alcohol and drug use (Phipps and Sowers, 2002) . ...

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The question of abortion is compounded by a related issue -- the right of a woman to control her own body. ... A woman would not know who the father of her baby was: either he was a drug addict, or an alcoholic, or someone else. ...

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People should be free to control their life and death In examining the physician-assisted suicide controversy, I considered the ethical issues that come forward in regards to the rights of an individual who is requesting assistance to end their life, versus the rights of society to determine such activity illegal. ... Legislature could regulate physician assisted suicide by putting forth consequences when the system is abused, like those laws in regards to using & selling drugs, abusing alcohol, illegal abortions and any other behavior that is not within the norms of society. ...

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Life is a beautiful thing. The way a fetus is produced is beyond magical. Having a child is a miracle that happens more often than usual in America. There are people who are overjoyed with happiness when they find out they are pregnant, and people who dread the thought of carrying a child in their s...

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