Sexually transmitted diseases (STD) are gaining more and more publicity. ... The more common sexually transmitted diseases include HIV (caused by the AIDS virus), herpes, gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis and genital warts. ... Holding a secret that immense inside you causes great stress and emotional upset. ... I personally feel that abortion should not be accepted in any case other than rape, but that's not what this paper is about. ... Another major concern for teenagers having sex is that some people feel that the teenager should have the right to choose what to do with their own bodies....

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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), thanking you from the bottom of their heart for your courage" (Reltso). ...

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Abortion has been around for centuries in the United States and to understand how abortion became a social issue and how it developed you must explore the history of it. ... Pro-choice activists believe that woman have the right to choose what to do with their own bodies. ... However, pro-life activists argue that if there is an indication of a deformity of disease it does not guarantee that the child will be born into a life of suffering. Also through love and support anyone with any form of deformity or disease can live a normal life. ... The two opposing sides of abortion are obvious but...

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Think of abortion this way, when your mother was pregnant with you, would you want her to have had an abortion? If your mother had an abortion, you would not exist and you would think it would be wrong. ... If you had the power to go back in time and change some mistakes you made in your adolescent years, then chances are you probably would. ... This is what abortion does for so many people in our world today. ... "Things that you might take for granted now - finishing high school, going to college, having a social life - all become impossible when you need to arrange and pay for child car...

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If you tell them, they refuse to believe it. ... If this is true, women should know what they are choosing. ... 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. ... Feeble-minded persons, habitual congenital criminals, those afflicted with inheritable d...

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What? What is this I wondered to myself. ... What went wrong? ... Did you know that in the phone book, well at least in mine, they don't list where abortion clinics are or what their names are? ... , "No thank you." ...

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For reasons of women's right to self-determination, protection of their health, rape or incest, old age, and adequate care of children who are born in order to prevent child abuse and mental disease, easy access to abortion is a must. ...

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In January of 1973, the United States Supreme Court decided on the case of Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, 93 S.Ct. 705, 35 L.Ed.2d 147. The Decision made by the United States Supreme Court gave every woman a federal constitutional right to an abortion. Since that decision in 1973, the issue of abortion has been at the center of much controversy and has left many Americans divided over the issue of abortion. As the legal scholar Ronald Oworkin once said, "No judicial decision in our time has aroused as much sustained public outrage, emotion, and physical violence or as much intemperate professi...

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• Grade Level: High School