It is also increases the risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and reduces infant birth weight by as much as 200 grams.1 Women who smoke during pregnancy are at increased risk of spontaneous abortions (miscarriages). ... Infants whose mothers smoked during pregnancy have 2.3 times the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome than infants of nonsmoking pregnant mothers. For infants exposed to maternal smoking both during pregnancy and after birth, the risk of SIDS is 3 times the risk for infants not exposed. ... Cigarette smoking has been associated with increased risk of entopic pregnancy. ...

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In other words, risk factors tend to give all responsability for the babies proper development on the women focusing only on the impact of the lifestyle that is put onto the future newborn health. ... This could be attributed to the risk factor that could be involved in a pregnancy. ...

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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 ...

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A choice should continue to exist but the emphasis needs to be placed on education of the parties involved. ... The important early court cases all involved single woman trying to terminate illegitimate pregnancies. As late as 1834 it was axiomatic to a medical student at the University of Maryland, who wrote his dissertation on spontaneous abortion, that woman who feigned dysmenorrhea in order to obtain abortions from physicians were woman who had been involved in illicit intercourse. ... Again, the context was spontaneous by the then induced abortion, but in a book with such explicit suggest...

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A choice should continue to exist but the emphasis needs to be placed on education of the parties involved. ... The important early court cases all involved single woman trying to terminate illegitimate pregnancies. ... Again, the context was spontaneous by the then induced abortion, but in a book with such explicit suggestions for relieving the common cold, woman could easily conclude that the health risks involved in bringing on an abortion were relatively low, or at least not much worse than childbirth itself in 1808, when Jennings wrote in his book (18). ... Harrison, for example, invited ...

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A choice should continue to exist but the emphasis needs to be placed on education of the parties involved. ... The important early court cases all involved single woman trying to terminate illegitimate pregnancies. As late as 1834 it was axiomatic to a medical student at the University of Maryland, who wrote his dissertation on spontaneous abortion, that woman who feigned dysmenorrhea in order to obtain abortions from physicians were woman who had been involved in illicit intercourse. ... Again, the context was spontaneous by the then induced abortion, but in a book with such explicit suggest...

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The failure of finishing school and going further in education put the young mother into risk of limiting themselves of employment options with low-wage jobs and increase chance of being poor. ... Of course, many will probably disagree with this assertion that infants born to teen has higher medical risk for prematurity, low birth weight, and inadequate fetal growth than who gives birth at 20-30's. ...

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Abortion pertains to many issues which are involved in CORE 1. ... Women who have an abortion in the third trimester are at a greater risk of becoming sterile than women who bear their child (157 Steinbock). ...

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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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"The Roman Catholic Church, and many other Christian fundamentalist organizations, are involved in the anti-abortion, or pro-life, movement" (Drill 270). ... As with any surgical procedure, there are risks. ... People who have committed the sexual deed should therefore be fully aware of the chances of procreation for the process of human lives is involved in pregnancy. ... This is because it would benefit only the woman and man involved. ...

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States also have certain informed consent laws that protect a woman's right to know the medical risks of abortion. ... Because they are physically in the same location a physical examination can be done to ensure the woman's health and to be sure an ectopic pregnancy is not involved. ...

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Many times, they were not told about the procedure or the risks involved. ... State criminal abortion laws, like those involved here, that except from criminality only a life-saving procedure on the mother's behalf without regard to the stage of her pregnancy and other interests involved violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which protects against state action the right to privacy, including a woman's qualified right to terminate her pregnancy. ...

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Abortion is an important social issue, as it would encompass a woman freely giving up on her baby by killing the little creature. Is abortion a choice or is it immorality? Different people have different opinions over it. Few might think that we do not have the right to abort. We do not have by any ...

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My first document discusses how women should have the choice to say if they want to have an abortion, instead of the government getting involved. ... Some Proponents of abortion argue that having an abortion can alleviate the risk of being impoverished, while others argue that abortion is a way to get rid of an unwanted or unneeded pregnancy. ...

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