...Nora Elder W131- Period 2 November 10, 2015 Teenage Abortion There are little things in your life that can help change a persons life for the better or even for the worse. Whether there all good or all bad just depends on the person. These can include: celebrating an 18th birthday, getting your first car or even graduating from high school. However there's some things in your life that can change your life monumentally. Either that is being in a car accident or for some teens across the country it is being a teen while also being pregnant. One way they believe they can deal with an unwanted pregnancy is to receive an abortion.The controversy over abortion will always be a topic of discussion for years to come. Abortion can change...
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...century, abortion has been one of the most passionately debated subjects of controversy in the United State. Since the early decades of the 20th century, abortion was used as a measure of limiting families to a manageable size. In the past, due to the lack of knowledge, many families usually gave birth to a lot of children that they could not afford to raise, which is why abortion was abused in early times as an extreme measure of birth control to avoid further poverty to families. Today, many abortions are given to women under the age of 22. There are not many teenage girls who have sex use protection the first time. Impulsive, ignorant, and irresponsible behavior often lead to unwanted pregnancy. Forcing a woman to raise an unwanted child is the ultimate form of child abuse, for the child will receive less of the loving maternal relationship she or he deserves. Moreover, given birth at the early age may cause a great danger on the young mother as well as the baby, etc. By these reasons, we should consider the right of women to decide whether she should keep the baby or not. Nowadays, many teenage girls have sex in their early age and get pregnant by the lack of knowledge in sexual relationship. If they can not have abortion, they are forced to give birth to the child and raise it while they are still in school. It's not fair for them because they still have the whole school life and their future ahead. That will interrupt their education and even their dream. These teenage girls...
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...Abortion: I am Pro-Choice Abortion is an issue that many women have been dealing with for years. On January 22, 1973 the court deemed abortion a fundamental right under the United States Constitution thereby subjecting all laws attempting to restrict it to the standard of strict scrutiny (en.m.wikipedia.org). Unwanted pregnancies can be very stressful for women. According to Socialist worker, women have the right to control their own bodies and reproductive lives (socialistworker.org). Therefore, I am pro-choice. Abortion is growing rapidly in America amongst women and their right to reproduce children, however women should have the right to choose to get an abortion for many reasons such as a medical condition, teen pregnancy, and rape. Women that are faced with medical conditions while pregnant are faced with difficult choices. Many women have medical conditions before they become pregnant, and some transpires during the pregnancy. Medical conditions can arise during pregnancy that may pose a danger to the mother’s life. Some women may opt for abortion in order to receive treatment that could save a woman’s life. Having a baby could pose a risk for the mother, the baby or both. “To force her at the risk of her life means to force her to give up her right to live.”(Gordon, John Stewart “Abortion” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2005) Certain conditions can complicate any pregnancy. The child could also be born with a serious medical issue, such...
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...The Tragedy of Teenage Abortion In society today, teens are taught by the television and the media that pre-marital sex is not a bad thing. This problem is leading to many teenage pregnancies, that then lead to abortion. All over the world teens are faced with many challenges in their everyday lives. Sex is being portrayed as extremely appealing in the media, but what they don't show is the pregnancies and the unborn child that never asked to be created in the first place that is being discarded. Abortion is in no way acceptable, it is murder of an unborn child. Many doctors will say that abortion is not a bad thing, and it's not murder. They have argued that it is just an embryo, and is not yet a child. In the book The Terrible Choice: The Abortion Dilemma, Glanville Williams, a well-known English criminologist, was quoted saying abortion should be treated like a tonsillectomy. It's a minor operation to remove unwanted or harmful "tissue growth". Both tissues are alive, and contain material substances, chemical compounds, DNA and RNA molecules. They may vary a little, but they are mainly matter which is composed of cells which are composed of chemicals (1-2). The only difference between a tonsillectomy and an abortion is that the fetus can grow and develop into a human being much like ourselves. Joseph Farah wrote an article about abortion in The Human Life Review. In this, she quoted Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
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...The Springfield, Missouri area has some really good resources for women and family planning. They include: Planned Parenthood, OACAC, and the Springfield-Greene County Health Department. There are resources for birth control, pregnant women, women who breastfeed, babies, small children, and women who are pregnant and at risk. Legislation that is passed tends to hurt women more than men. We need to value low-income women as much as we do other people. A person’s personal views should not affect legislation. Teenage girls need to think long and hard before having babies. The two men who had babies in Britain are able to care for their children and I am sure they will be wonderful parents. Family Planning and Community Resources There...
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...Women’s Health Movement WEEK 4/Tue Key Organizations • 1970 - Boston Women’s Health Collective publishes Our Bodies Ourselves • • • • 1971 - Feminist Women’s Health Centers 1973 - Committee to End Sterilization Abuse 1974 - National Women’s Health Network 1984 - National Black Women’s Health Project Ideology of the Grassroots Feminist Health Movement • Knowledge - critique medicalization • Empowerment / Authority • Consciousness raising groups “the personal is political” • Lay leadership • Refuse corporate sponsorship Carol Downer • Women’s Health in Women’s Hands http://www.womenshealthinwomenshands.org/index.htm Feminist self-help centers * women reclaimed power from the paternalistic and condescending medical community * women reclaimed the right to control their reproduction * women reclaimed the right to assume control of their own health 1969-1973 Chicago, “Jane” “This is Jane from women’s liberation. If you need assistance, leave your name and phone number and someone will call you back” Feminist self-help centers “Feminist” because: • Controlled by women • Health care seen as a highly politicized issue Common features: • information about women’s bodies • empowerment through validation of one’s own experiences • preference for female health care providers • critique of male- physician-controlled health care • critique of capitalist health care • challenge to impersonality and instrumentality National Women’s Health Network • envisioned...
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...Choose one of the following topics as they relate to children and adolescents: Teen Pregnancy Federal and State Laws in Regard to Teen Pregnancy Although the Supreme Court recognizes a minor’s right to some measure of reproductive freedom, once a teenager becomes pregnant, her choice to obtain a medical abortion is more constrained than it is to obtain contraceptives (Durcan & Appell, 2001). Minors may only obtain an abortion if their parents’ consent or a judge permits the abortion (Silverstein, 1999). Age of consent for a female or male to have sex in Georgia is 16. If a minor becomes pregnant she can marry the father but her parents have to sign the consent form and in some counties the judge has to sign the order also. In Georgia teens must inform their parents of an abortion but do not have to get consent. Noted in 2004, Sanger states “Thirty-four US states currently require pregnant minors either to notify their parents or get their consent before having a legal abortion” (p. 35). I facilitate a sex offender class so we are constantly discussing laws when in pertains to age of consent. Many are afraid of getting involved with a minor with fake ID and looks older. How do these laws affect your role as a human service provider? These laws affects my role as a human service provider in more ways than one. I will have to counsel the pregnant female, parents, and father of the child. This will be an issue because if she is a minor and the male is an adult I will have to...
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...The rightful owner to an Abortion The Right to an Abortion Abortion is a subject that sparks great debate there is no grey area, you are either for or against abortion. In the era that we live in today, moral standards are ever changing and decisions placed under a microscope. Abortions are becoming justified, acceptable and should be the choice of the woman holding the fetus. The reason for this choice is government makes the mistake of being involved in the choice of its individual people. As you turn on your television set and see matters of abortion being discusses, it is hard to rule out the religion, and science. These subjects will always cause friction when educating people about human life. Abortion is more than a procedure, it has psychological factors, and it has short-term and long-term effects. There are financial matters as well and those who bears the overall long-term effect, society or the individual needs to be addressed as well when speaking about abortions. The Supreme Court of the United States has been involved in highly publicized cases of abortion; Rowe v Wade, Gonzales v. Carnhart, Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of New England, are to name a few. The Supreme Court is the highest form of court system in the United States to decide these matters. The state should allow the people having the abortions to establish their own guidelines so they can govern these laws and regulations. Sexual Education in the school systems is flawed, teachers...
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...The Effects of Teenage Relationships Different relationships affect teenagers in various ways. Friends impact teenagers almost the same amount as their parents. Teenagers go to their friends for help or to ask questions that they could not ask their parents about. Most of the time their friends give them good advice but then there is the down side when they put pressure on their friends to do something like to smoke, drink, and do drugs. In most cases they tell their friends how to dress and act when around certain people. Love relationships just make it even harder for a teenager to get a good education. Some start to fail in school because they are hanging out with their boyfriend or girlfriend instead of doing their work. Throughout adolescence, teenagers are positively and negatively impacted by several relationships such as friends, family, and love relationships. Friends have a big influence on teenagers because they can say and do many of things to teenagers who think they were friends. They also start rumors and take their friends girlfriend or boyfriend and have them cheat on their friend. Some go out to drink, smoke, or to do drugs just to have fun but some think of driving home and most teenagers do not even make it to their driveways. Some teenagers who are so depressed about their social problems even think about committing suicide. Most start to hurt others turn into “goth’s” by dressing in all black. Many of depressed people show how they feel by dressing differently...
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...Actions must coincide with beliefs South Dakota has very lofty goals for their sweeping ban on abortion. The only allowance they grant for obtaining an abortion is “to prevent the death of a pregnant mother” (South Dakota Legislature - handout). The main, and probably most controversial, premise of the South Dakota argument is that the other rights of the pregnant woman are “not sufficient to morally outweigh the prenatal human being’s right to life.” I am in agreement with this ban on abortion mainly because of this premise. One may argue that the pregnant woman indeed has other rights that are more important than that of the prenatal human being and because of this has the right to abort. However, if this was the case then the woman should have been acting in accordance to how important those other rights are to her. If there is something that one values dearly, then their actions should coincide with that belief. Their actions should reflect the importance of the thing that they value. In other words, if obtaining a college degree or establishing a career is most important to a person, then their actions should reflect how important this belief is by not knowingly performing acts or making decisions that are counterproductive to obtaining their goals. The right to life is a universal, important belief that many people hold. Thus, typically, when a person decides to have intercourse with another person, one ensures that this other person does not have sexual transmitted...
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...Should Abortions Be Made Illegal? Abortion has always been a very controversial issue. This can be due to the fact that people have different beliefs that are emphasized by their own religion and set of moral values. Many people believe that abortion is wrong, but they believe that is it only wrong under certain circumstances. This could be true, but is it more right to kill for a specific reason than to just do it because you made an irresponsible decision? I believe that young teenage girls have the right to decide what to do with their own bodies, but they do not have the right to choose someone's lives. There are several ways that teens can prevent an abortion. What I would have to say is the biggest key to this problem is using a condom. If young teenage girls can remember to buy hair products, cloths, shoes, and accessories than why can’t they remember to buy a condom? Teens love to act mature and responsible but once they land in a horrible situation they turn to their parents. By using a condom they can prevent an unwanted baby. Why bring a baby into this world if you cannot provide for it and cherish it. If many teenage girls can go out and have fun and live for the moment they should also think about the future. Getting pregnant at any age should be a wonderful surprise and not the end of the world. Another way of preventing pregnancy is by getting a birth control shot or taking birth control pills. In today society there are many options to choose from. Abortion...
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...Abortion has been and still is a very controversial issue. The Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade in 1973 truly brought the issue of abortion to the public eye for the first time. For those who don’t know, abortion is defined as, “ the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy”. The most common types of in-clinic abortions are called aspiration and dilation and evacuation (D&E). Aspirations are when a small tube is inserted into the cervix and the fetus is gently vacuumed from the uterus. A D&E is almost the same procedure, except medical instruments are used alongside the vacuuming. In pregnancies late into the second trimester (6 months since conception), a shot may be given through the abdomen of the woman so the fetus’ heart is stopped before the procedure begins. Aspirations are typically performed up to the first 16 weeks of pregnancy, and D&E is usually performed after the first 16 weeks. Both types are very quick. Aspirations take about 5-10 minutes while D&E’s take about 10-20 minutes. Both methods are almost guaranteed to work. There are many reasons to get an abortion, and abortion should always be legal. The classic argument for those that are pro-abortion (pro-choice) is that it is the woman’s right to choose whether she has an abortion or not, hence why those that favor abortion are referred to being pro-choice. A woman should definitely have the option to have an abortion, and denying women the right to have an abortion would be a social injustice. It’s her body...
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...ABORTION: It should be a choice Imagine a teenage girl who has made one of the biggest mistakes in her life, getting pregnant. Her family is not stable enough to afford a baby and she cannot afford one herself, but yet cannot abort the baby because it is against the law. The teenage girl has now given birth to a baby boy. With no help from her family she ends up on living on the street with her baby crying every night of hunger. She struggles for the rest of the child’s childhood and vows to never have a baby again. Now let’s imagine a teenage girl who has made the same mistake but instead was able to get an abortion. With this being one of the most emotion and horrifying events she has experienced yet, she also made a vow; but this teenager’s vow was to always be protected. Many teenagers who become mothers have grim prospects for the future. They are much more likely to leave school; receive poor prenatal care; rely on public assistance to raise a child; develop health problems; or end up divorced from their child’s father. In the Supreme Court case of Roe vs. Wade (1973) women of the United States “have been granted the right to have abortions” it is a strong belief of many people it is a woman’s right to be able to abort an unwanted pregnancy, and no man, organization, or any form of government should take that right away from her. The right to have an abortion is a woman’s right not to have a conceived child. According to the Encyclopedia, an abortion is the loss of a fetus...
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...ABORTION An abortion is when the pregnancy is ended so that it does not result in the birth of a child. Sometimes this is called ‘termination of pregnancy’. The pregnancy is removed from the womb, either by taking pills (medical abortion) which involves taking medicines to cause a miscarriage or by surgery (surgical abortion) where the pregnancy is removed from the womb. Abortion is the termination of pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of afetus or embryo prior to viability. An abortion can occur spontaneously, in which case it is usually called a miscarriage, or it can be purposely induced. The term abortionmost commonly refers to the induced abortion of a human pregnancy. Abortion, when induced in the developed world in accordance with local law, is among the safest procedures in medicine. However, unsafe abortions result in approximately 70,000maternal deaths and 5 million hospital admissions per year globally. An estimated 44 million abortions are performed globally each year, with slightly under half of those performed unsafely. The incidence of abortion has stabilized in recent years, having previously spent decades declining as access to family planning education and contraceptive services increased. Forty percent of the world's women have access to legal induced abortions (within gestational limits). Induced abortion has a long history and has been performed by various methods, including herbal abortifacients, the use of sharpened tools, physical...
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...Abortion is defined as the termination of pregnancy. It is a surgical procedure, available in almost every country in the world, in which a fetus or embryo is removed from the uterus of a pregnant woman. According to an article made by the Herald-Journal, a U.S. newspaper based on Utah, 22% of all pregnancies around the world end in abortion. This means that every year millions of lives are destroyed before they even have the chance to breathe. These poor babies, who could have accomplished great things in their life – babies who are already alive – are killed deliberately by doctors. And everyday, more and more abortions occur as they are starting to be legalized in more countries. With that stated, I don’t agree with abortion and I definitely think it should be illegal in every country. As a teenager I’ve been warned and talked extensively about abortion by my parents, teachers, and relatives in general. Abortion is a very popular topic among adolescents. The reason why this is a very prominent issue among the people of my generation is because every day more and more teenage girls are getting pregnant. They don’t take sex seriously and are very irresponsible during intercourse. An internet article states that in the U.S. alone there are 820,000 teen pregnancies annually. This is very shocking because it means that 34% of all teenage girls in the States will end up pregnant before turning 20. Other alarming figures include that 8 out of 10 of these pregnancies are unintended...
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