Teen Pregnancy/Sexual Education and the Advocate's Role Kimberley Thornton-Candley BSHS/442 May 23. 2010 Latera Davis Teen Pregnancy/Sexual Education and the Advocate's Role Advocacy is a big part of the human services field, people need someone who will assist with services many need. A human services worker can speak on behalf of the client and carry out different things the client has to do. One of the groups in need of advocates is youth/teens. Many areas that are targeted for youth
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Social Issue: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome p.427 The third most common cause of mental retardation in babies born in most of North America (Canada and the United States) is fetal alcohol syndrome. This illness is a result of alcohol and other harmful substances moving across the placenta. The crossing of the placenta results in the blood of the fetus being polluted by the alcohol. The placenta, unfortunately, is a selective membrane preventing only the mother’s blood from entering the blood of the fetus
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that 45-55 million abortions take place in just one (NHS, 2012), 87% of these take place in the first twelve weeks of prgnancy, making the average age for abortions taking place to be 9.5 weeks. However it is also shown that in teenagers the foetus is aborted at a younger age than would be with an older woman, this is thought to be because of pressure in decision making and the fear of parents of younger women finding out about the pregnancy. In the UK you can have an abortion until the foetus becomes
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how they had no rights from the government to protect themselves from all the evil and wrong doings that America has. What started out as only a few hundred women has now amassed to over 500,000. NOW Key Issues Current Priority Issues * Abortion and Reproductive Rights * Economic Justice * Gay and Lesbian Rights * Promoting Diversity and Ending Racism * Stopping Violence Against Women * Constitutional Equality Other Important Issues * Ending Sex Discrimination
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being brought in and three in particular interest them. One is a woman who was six months pregnant due to rape and died from the pregnancy complication. She wanted to have an abortion but it (abortion) was illegal under all circumstances in her state. One is the body of a woman who died after attempting to give herself an abortion with a coat hanger. She was a poor woman who lives in the slums; she had no money to take care of the child and no way to feed her living children if she lost her work from
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Cheyenne Bradt Paper #1 Chapter One Ethics 301 Dr. Waibel 1/22/13 Abortion is an ethical issue that many people are debating about. Chapter one in the book Social Issues: Morality and Social Policy discusses the issue of abortion. This chapter starts out discussing the reasons a woman may get an abortion. The first reason is if the fetus was to come to term the mother, for various reasons, could die. The second reason is the woman’s physical and/or mental health could be affected if the pregnancy
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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
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Introduction to Ethics Abortion May 1, 2014 Rights of the fragile Wendy McElroy is an individualist anarchist and individualist feminist. In her article “The Abortion Debate That Wasn’t” she states that “a woman’s body is a woman’s right” and she proceeds with her argument that “the law must protect a woman's right to control her own body, it must acknowledge a woman's right to abort” (McElroy). To support her argument, she offers the following premises: first, the purpose of law in society
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Name: Professor: Course: Date: Moral and ethical issues are matters that have existed since time immemorial. Moral standards and ethical standards are well spelt out even in modern day organizations. It provides bedrock upon which organizations are run. The existing guidelines show people, for instance, employees, what they ought to do at any given time. It is on the same note that codes of conduct exist; they help in detecting any misconduct that may have happened in an organization within various
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of the parents. The practice is unlawful and demands strict punishment in form of fine or jail to the person requesting abortion of the unborn girl child as well as to the practitioner who gets the sex determined. Some kind of complications in pregnancy can also demand surgical termination of pregnancy after eight weeks of conception. This is where the termination or abortion is legal and doctors may have to suggest and opt for discontinuance of pregnancy for the sake of health of the mother carrying
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