Despite the common knowledge that drug and alcohol use during pregnancy is harmful to an unborn child, many pregnant woman choose to use drugs and alcohol throughout the duration of their pregnancy. ... Additionally, Lofipour discovered that the orbitofrontal cortex in the brains of the prenatally exposed teenagers were much smaller than the non-exposed control group (Lofipour 1248). ... A newborn baby can go through grueling and painful drug withdrawal for drugs he or she never chose to use. ... Coles, presentation for the 2010 Drug, DUI, and Mental Health Court Conference in Atlanta Georgia...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

My fourth source talks about an abortion drug and other regulations from the court. ... In her argument, by the Democrats offering women birth control and allowing abortion, then women are reduced to being just ovaries. ... Having the economy on stagnant, then giving women birth control is giving them a prize for not having a good paying job to support the economy. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Prenatal cocaine exposure is an unfortunate dilemma caused by drug intake and is extremely destructive to the child's developmental stages. ... According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA 2002) during the period 1997 to 2002 there was a significant increase in cocaine consumption. ... Findings from the National Survey of drugs have shown that approximately 45000 babies have been prenatally exposed to cocaine. ... Furthermore, studies conducted on a controlled group of infants exposed to maternal cocaine increase showed a large quantity of strabismus (the alignment of...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Some people also argue that if there was more birth control/sex education in the schools, there would be fewer pregnancies. ... Most end up having problems in school and sent to jail for such as drug use and convicting a crime. ... Some girls become sexually active due to their peer pressure, social changes, and media, while other girls say they have not been educated on right and wrong birth control methods. ...

• Word Count: 2627
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Teenagers in the United States are experimenting with sexual activities more and more today than ever before. According to Charles Krauthammer, "Sex oozes from every pore of the culture and there's not a kid in the world who can avoid it." (Meier, 1994, p. 7). Teenagers are surrounded by some sort o...

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This paper will discuss how abortion became legal in the states, legislation states have passed to control abortion and how states decide to fund abortion. ... Casey the court had upheld all but one of Pennsylvania's Abortion Control Act. ... When the drug RU-486 is used or some other chemical/drug is used to induce and abortion the abortion doctor who has prescribed the drugs has to be physically present when the drug is provided to the woman. ...

• Word Count: 2668
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Socioeconomically these individuals are less likely to achieve finishing Secondary and postsecondary education therefore giving the individual an socioeconomically disadvantage that could lead to various other problems such as low income, drug abuse and homelessness (Deardorff, Lahiff, Ozer, Young; 2010). ... The literature also generally failed to control one or more potential factors such as subgroups that include ethnicity, socioeconomic and other factors such as gender; such as the sexual outcomes of males, which could be utilized to specify gender differences and issues explore issues spe...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

Birth control clinics shall be permitted to function as services of government health departments or under the support of charity, or as nonprofit, self-sustaining agencies subject to inspection and control by public authorities. ... The revenues thus obtained shall be expended by the State within the given county in giving financial support to birth control.... ... The following is a description of the various types of abortions that are performed in this country: (a) RU-486 RU-486 is a drug that produces an abortion. ... A second drug is then given that stimulates the uterus to co...

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• Grade Level: High School

The topic of abortion is anything but simple, and our laws governing the matter are always changing to try to achieve a middle ground. The word abortion alone provokes strong emotion in both women and men. There are many different viewpoints on abortion and it is important to exam both sides ...

• Word Count: 2895
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Knowledge of various drugs, potions and techniques was available from home medical guides, from health books for woman, for mid-wives and irregular practitioners, and trained physicians. ... The first wave of abortion legislation in American history emerged from the struggles of both legislatures and physicians to control medical practice rather than from public pressures to deal with abortion per se. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A knowledge of various drugs, potions and techniques was available from home medical guides, from health books for woman, for mid-wives and irregular practitioners, and trained physicians. ... The first wave of abortion legislation in American history emerged from the struggles of both legislatures and physicians to control medical practice rather than from public pressures to deal with abortion per se. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

According to the Centers for Disease Control, 20% of the reported abortions in the U.S. are among those who are 19 years of age or less. ... According to the complaint, a high school drug awareness counselor discovered that the girl was pregnant and called her out of class to urge her to have an abortion. ...

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A knowledge of various drugs, potions and techniques was available from home medical guides, from health books for woman, for mid-wives and irregular practitioners, and trained physicians. ... The first wave of abortion legislation in American history emerged from the struggles of both legislatures and physicians to control medical practice rather than from public pressures to deal with abortion per se. ...

• Word Count: 4179
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Infants don't have a decision on whether they should live or be aborted in their mother's womb. If a woman chooses to prematurely end her child, the child can't do anything about his or her life being taken away from them. Their entire future is annihilated. A mother slaughters her unborn child, yet she's not charged for homicide. "There were 1.21 million abortions performed in the United States in 2008, the most recent year for which data is available. ...

• Word Count: 5764
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School