With genetic testing, parents would be able to find out to a certain degree and to a certain detection rate, what their chances of a disabled child or child with a disease would be. ... So, through your own morals you may elicit that by discarding the diseased fetuses you are essentially killing them. ... What if a woman had an abortion and then was unable to become pregnant at a later time? ... A future just like you and me. ... No matter if you are disabled or not you are still your own unique individual and that's what makes our world so diverse and how it is today. ...

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Every where you go you hear people saying, you see things that say sex is bad, sex is good, don't have sex. ... Physical appearance is what initially attracts you to that person. ... With all the diseases going around today people know the consequences and still would rather not practice safe sex. ... People know that this disease kills and that there's no cure. People think that AIDS is just a homosexual disease but the majority of the people who have it are heterosexual. ...

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Most can be prevented but a few are irreversible if you change your lifestyle and health such as alcohol, athletic training, being overweight or underweight, health problems, poor diet, sexually transmitted diseases, stress and smoking tobacco but one cannot be reversed no matter how many lotions and botox you try, age. (Infertility) Age is an important factor in infertility because the longer you want to have a child the less chances you have of staying pregnant. ... The fallopian tubes could be damaged as a result from pelvic inflammatory disease and endometriosis. ... The origin of endomet...

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The list of problems associated with this disease continues. ... For those who are already affected with the disease it is aimed at improving quality of life. ... This study was aimed at gaining a knowledge base as to what these adolescents knew about FAS so that a curriculum could be developed to educate these teens regarding this issue (Ma, Toubbeth, Cline & Chisholm). One hundred sixty-three Native American adolescents were asked a variety questions including "Do you know what Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is?" The results of the study indicated that 43 % of the subjects were aware of this dis...

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All you have to do is love your child and everything else in life will be just fine. ... I wasn't going to do what my mother had done, and live my life struggling. ... Currently 65 million people have an incurable sexually transmitted disease; that correlates to 22% of people in the United States or more than 2 of us in this room that have a disease we acquired during sexual activity that is with us for the rest of our lives, now that is what you call a lasting memory! ... Practice the same ideas you are trying to show your children. ... As both a mother and a person that received ...

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Introduction Who would of ever thought that a beautiful thing such as conceiving a child can one day be enhanced that not only you can find out what the gender of the newborn is going to be, but you can also choose the gender of the newborn. In fact, technology has actually come this far and you can now find out the gender and now you can even choose the gender in a process called preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). ... Gender Selection What is "Gender Selection"? ... Consequently, as we all know, you can't have the good without the bad. ... Undeniably, this process can be e...

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These statics show us how we need to get a handle on teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. ... A teen seeing sexual references can confuse them on what sex is really about and how it can affect your body. ... As young as nine years old, I have heard kids making sexual remarks in which they had no idea about what they meant. ... If we were to just have abstinence only classes, it could have the effect of teens just wanting to do the opposite because being teen if somebody just tells you "no" and gives you no information on why, you want to experience it for yourself. ... I...

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What is a designer baby you may ask? ... Yes, it is possible to choose exactly what you want your child to look like and what qualities they possess. ... Some animals are used as a dummy for testing diseases and trying to find cures. Mice are injected with genes that cause diseases, so scientists can try to find a cure for the diseases (King, 2007). ... Breast cancer is a disease that can be passed down through generations. ...

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If you have a job and you are selected for a urine test marijuana will show up. ... These drugs can hurt you and those who surround you. ... One out of every three smokers dies from tobacco related disease. ... Smoking can also make you look older. ... Beauty is measured by proportion of body parts, shaping unrealistic expectations of what a woman's body should look like. ...

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You are also not to engage in activity with a neighbor's wife. ... Catholic, vol. 61 p32-34) Before you engage in anything you have to be sure of what you are doing. ... They all don't protect from disease and pregnancy fully but they cut down the chances by a high percentage. ... (Who Becomes A Single Teenage Mother, p. 5-8) We can not decide for anyone what is right or what is wrong for him or her to do. ... As long as they understand what they are doing and what will happen when they do it is the important. ...

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A thin line is then drawn between what sex education should entail. ... It is a fact that "2.5 million teenagers are affected by sexually transmitted diseases each year" ("The Effects" 632). ... If you present children with a "don't do it" attitude then it will regulate the amount of activity going on. ... Another survey by the Centers for Disease Control also came up with similar numbers. ... Without proper knowledge of how to use a condom, many teens are left unprotected from diseases and pregnancy. ...

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So what is the government doing to prevent STDs and teen pregnancy? ... Teenagers are not being taught about their bodies and what actually happens not only when people have sex but also when one gets pregnant and even when one has a sexually transmitted disease. ... The only reason you would want to have sex ed is if you want people to have sex.... Recommendations Also, educators should look and use lesson plans that will help the students stay well informed about how to prevent pregnancy, STDs, etc. through the use of contraceptives, condoms, and even abstinence from sex, and to also teach w...

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The question that the most people are asking is what is considered a human being? ... In other words, if you're human, you must be a person. ... Indeed, they inherently know what makes a human into a person, but they are also aware such individual personhood doesn't occur until well after birth. ...

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You are nervous about what is to come and you are dreading what you could be hearing from your doctor. ... The doctor tells you that you are pregnant. ... As a teenager you should be worried about school and friends, not being pregnant or possibly have a sexually transmitted disease. ... If you have breast cancer you should not use it either. ... You should not use the Depo shot if you are pregnant or is you have breast cancer. ...

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You are nervous about what is to come and you are dreading what you could be hearing from your doctor. ... The doctor tells you that you are pregnant. ... As a teenager you should be worried about school and friends, not being pregnant or possibly have a sexually transmitted disease. ... If you have breast cancer you should not use it either. ... You should not use the Depo shot if you are pregnant or is you have breast cancer. ...

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Since this embryo or fetus is alive and is a person, you have no moral right to abort a life. If you aborted the life (person) you would be committing murder. The word "murder" is mainly used by pro-lifers to describe what happens when you abort an embryo/fetus. ... The termination of the pregnancy might have to do with the health of the mother herself, maybe the mother is unable to attend to the child's needs after its born, resulting in child abuse and mental disease. ... Can you really understand the issue of abortion unless you have been in the situation of possibly havi...

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Currently, a minor (male of female) is able to receive confidential medical treatment for mental health conditions, drug and alcohol abuse, and sexually transmitted diseases. ... Poor mental health, addictions, diseases, and pregnancy all have the potential to be life-altering events in a young persons life. ... Otherwise, I believe it should be left up to the teens to decide whether or not it is in their best interest to tell their parents about what they are going through. ... That is what this bill does. ... What they will not tell you is that, though teen abortions decreased in Virgi...

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Just remember, if you drink, your baby does too. ... Yet others prove that the baby cant have any control over what the mother does. I can't imagine anyone who would give a two-year-old a few beers at dinner, and by drinking, this is what you are doing to the small baby inside the womb. ... This is a cause of vascular disease, which means blood is more likely to find it difficult to reach the placenta. ... Smoking and drinking while pregnant is harmful to you and your baby. ...

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Through this connection, one should remember whatever u intake will be passed onto their baby so you should not consume anything that could harm your baby. ... During pregnancy you can let your unborn baby listen to classical music and other positive music and be aware of the negative and bad music of today's society. It is important to remember that what you are listening to; your baby is also listening to. I personally believe that you can help stimulate the fetus's brain by reading books out loud and talking to your baby. ... Throughout the months of pregnancy, there are many cont...

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In extreme cases they can be carried out up to week 24 if it is life threatening for the mother, or if any genetic mistakes have been spotted, but you would have to give birth to the baby. Though now a days, with help of technology, premature babies can be saved from week 23, so this creates a problem if you want to carry out abortion this late. ... Or would she ultimately be more mature and more at peace with herself if she could remember that, even though she became pregnant unwillingly, she nevertheless solved her problem by being unselfish, by giving of herself and of her love to an inno...

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Though numerous doctors savor their full time job, they might also sit back and realized what they had to do to achieve the goals in becoming an OB-GYN. ... So for anyone who wants to be an OB-GYN, tune in to what is needed to be known for this demanding profession. ... "Study hard,get good grades, and make sure you are passionate with this occupation" (Olt)., is an excellent word of advice that was quoted by Dr. ... She expresses what she wished she would have knew and what she wished to tell incoming OB-GYNs: I wished I had realized a bit more about the years of training after medical schoo...

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Whenever you lay him down, he wants to get picked up. ... Further questions raised by those in favor of abortion include speculation about which abortion not only in the case of minors, but what about abortion if a woman is raped, if her life is in danger, or if the child will be born with a serious disease? ... At what point is it that the fetus actually is a human being? ... But even though individuals recognize this risk, there is still a strong element of conscience which suggests that abortion is fundamentally wrong and that even in extreme instances, an abortion has to be seen for wha...

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Down the back of the neural tube, cells begin to form what will become the spinal column. ... What this means is that small particles, such as oxygen and alcohol can get through the placenta, but larger particles such as blood cells can not. ... Some teratogenic factors that can adversely affect the development are if the mother takes drugs, illegal or prescribed, alcohol or if a disease is present in the mother in the time of pregnancy, there is an increased chance that the baby will be born with birth defects. ... Also I did not realise what pre cautions you have to take to prevent your baby...

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One-third of 15 year olds reported that their parents never talked to them about sex pregnancy , and one-half said a parent had not discussed birth control, or sexually transmitted diseases to them. ... When she got to the eight grade she was curious about what it would be like to sleep with a guy. ...

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A single-celled, just fertilized ovum (see picture) is simply what a human being looks like at the start of life. ... "Death is not just another disease that can be specified, analyzed, and catalogued as viral or bacterial, infectious or auto-immune. ... Thus defining death requires more than medical and technical expertise: It requires also some agreed understanding of what is constitutive of human life, and what it is that must be absent before the person can be said to be dead." ... What is actually going on mentally at that point is unknown, but the hardware is in place for a human mi...

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