Those same teenagers might often be the ones that get pregnant. ... In that case, it is a good idea for the girl to get help by talking to a counselor at school or a health clinic. ... Teenagers often worry that if they get married, then they can have sex all they want without any complaints. In Japan, the legal age to be married without a parent's authorization is over 18 in males and over 16 in females (Kasumigaseki, 1997). ... Teenagers think that by getting married, it will reduce the stress and pressures from having sex as opposed to not being married. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

She abused alcohol and drugs and was later beaten by a husband whom she married at age sixteen. ... On March 3, 1970, a childless married couple, John and Mary Doe (these plaintiffs also adopted pseudonyms for purposes of anonymity) filed a complaint which separately attacked the laws, basing alleged injury on the future possibilities of contraceptive failure, pregnancy, unpreparedness for parenthood, and impairment of the wife's health. ... Pro-life activists have targeted these personal privacy and reproductive rights repeatedly, but have been unable to get successfully overturn the R...

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• Grade Level: High School

Unmarried women are four to five times more likely to abort than married and the abortion rate has doubled for 18 and 19 year olds. ... I was married at that point to a very ill man and it would have been terrible to have to have my baby. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Permits for parenthood shall be issued by government authorities to married couples upon application, providing the parents are financially able to support the expected child, have the qualifications needed for proper rearing of the child, have no transmissible diseases, and on the woman's part no indication that maternity is likely to result in death or permanent injury to health. ... A childless married couple (the Does), the wife not being pregnant, separately attacked the laws, basing alleged injury on the future possibilities of contraceptive failure, pregnancy, unprepared ness for...

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• Grade Level: High School

Knowing that the child has a heartbeat and is a live, women should be penalized for getting an abortion because she is basically killing a living being, which is against the law. ... With that being said, a woman is going against God's word by getting an abortion to prevent the child from having the life that God chose for him or her. ... Once a woman aborts her child, she will not get to experience what being a mother fells like. "If you do, not only will you make three people blissfully happy, but someday you just may get a letter from your little one (now grown big, of course), ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Amnesty International goes on to breakdown those rights as the right to get access to sexual and reproductive health care, autonomy in making decisions over one's sexual and reproductive choices, this is a critical component of beings exercising freedom of choice. ... On the other hand the figures produced by the Zimbabwe Family Planning Council in the same article show that only 58% of married couples are using contraceptives in the country and the aim is to reach 70% by 2020. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Abortion: A Right During the past quarter century, abortion has joined race and war as one of the most debatable subject of controversy in the United States. It discusses human interaction where ethics, emotions and law come together. Abortion poses a moral, social and medical dilemma that faces ma...

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• Grade Level: High School

Cases of Induced Abortions by Teenagers without Parental Notice or Consent 1. Background Substantial numbers of pregnant adolescents do not consult either their mother or father prior to obtaining an abortion. A Minnesota study found that 43% of adolescents obtaining abortions used the court bypas...

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