...Case Analysis: Susan G. Komen for the Cure vs. Planned Parenthood By Katharina Volkmer Situation Susan G. Komen for the Cure (SGK) decided to stop making grants for breast exams to Planned Parenthood (PP), a decision that the Foundation later reversed. The first announcement caused an immense social media backlash, political posturing and a huge amount of donations for Planned Parenthood. SGK’s Strategy In mid-December, SGK informed PP about stopping grants. On January 31, the Associated Press broke the news and an immense social media reaction started (Miller, 2012). People’s dissatisfaction about the decision was expressed on Twitter, Facebook and on various individual blogs. News stations reported about the reactions on social media platforms, causing numerous reports in TV and radio broadcast and print coverage. Even though SGK initiated the announcement, for about 24 hours, it did not provide a statement, no expression nor an apology about its decision. SGK did not respond to negative comments and its activity on Twitter was not frequent (Miller, 2012). The organization even declined interviews with network news and major newspapers. Its defensive position seemed like the Foundation was hoping that the crisis would end soon. SGK’s position was criticized publicly, as it did not listen and engage with affected groups of interest that supported it for many years. In the late evening of February 1st, the Foundation finally started publishing responses...
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...Background on Planned Parenthood Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) is a non-profit organization, which is dedicated to providing sexual education and access to reproductive health care services. The organization was founded in 1916 and is known for its active participation in lobbying for the policies that enable Americans to access comprehensive reproductive and sexual health care, education, and information. Cecile Richards, daughter of the first female governor of Texas, Democrat Ann Richards a well-known feminist and political activist became its president in 2006. 1 in every 5 women would use Planned Parenthood service during her lifetime. Educational programs were made available to nearly 1.2 million youths and adults...
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...the fetus. Here are the facts. There are two types of abortions, “at home”, the abortion pill, and “In-Clinic” abortions. The abortion pill is the “at home” method. The pill stops nutrients from reaching the fetus causing termination. A woman can use the pill up to week 9 of her pregnancy. There are generally two types of “In-Clinic” abortions that clinics are using now available to women. An “In-Clinic” abortion is one that takes place in the office because the woman is too far along to take the abortion pill. (Planned Parenthood) The first type of “In-Clinic” abortion is called aspiration, or the Vacuum Method. It is a method where a woman is examined, given pain medication, antibiotics, and then a hand held suction device, or machine, is inserted into the cervix and everything is suctioned out leaving the uterus empty. This is the most common procedure done to end a pregnancy but can only be done until a fetus is 16 weeks old or four months. (Planned Parenthood) At this point in the pregnancy, the fetus has developed their digestive system, bones, ears, his or her eyes, and has even been practicing breathing, preparing for the day they are born! They also are making facial...
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...Planned Parenthood - Proposal Goals and Objectives Student Name BSHS/452 Date Instructor Name Planned Parenthood - Proposal Goals and Objectives Our program initiative looks to increase awareness and provide education on prevention and birth control among the 17-23 age groups. Prevention will focus on increasing awareness and education in this age group from poverty-stricken areas, which are prone to behavior that leads to early pregnancy. We will measure the degree of change by the decrease in pregnancies over a specified time frame. This initiative will also measure the increase in the number of males and females who take part in educational and training programs that focus on prevention. The degree of change will focus on the methods that help prevent unwanted pregnancies, family planning, and the effectiveness of these methods. We will measure the increase in use of condoms, emergency contraceptives, abstinence, and the pill provided by this program. The educational portion will provide information on the effects of not using birth control contraceptives such as sexually transmitted diseases. The success of this program does not depend on prevention methods alone, but acquiring a good outreach program and skilled administrators. The goal is to reduce unintentional pregnancies in unprivileged communities. “Shefali S. Kulkarni states that almost in 40 years teen pregnancies are at the lowest level, research data by Guttmacher Institute” (Kulkarni, 2012, p. 1)....
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...Sexual Education: Who Cares And Why The range of beliefs on sex education is extremely broad and multi-sided. Religious, cultural, gender, and social factors intermix, affecting the way that these different groups believe and act. Most people take a conservative or moderate view on most points of the debate, and liberal views on other points. Very few reside at either extreme. The groups at each extreme are the ones to look at because they make it their goal to make people see their point of view, giving shape to the overall view of the subject. The amount of division near each extreme makes it very difficult to find a view with which the whole group can be happy. Christian religions divide when it comes to how the Bible should be interpreted and what is right and wrong. Within each sect of religion, cultures, genders, and classes divide as to what is right and wrong and how children should be taught. Children from each class and culture grow up in different environments, affecting what and how they learn, inside and outside of school. People in one religion can have similar beliefs as those held by someone in another religion, but the religious differences make it difficult for them to unite in support of the belief. Religion is the most notorious for associating sex with marriage. The Catholic Church stands the most firm on the idea sex should be confined to marriage. The Church says contraception blocks the presence of God in the sexual act and is therefore wrong....
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...Well, birth control was largely illegal in the United States for much of the 20th century, so maybe one of your questions could be how people gained access to it prior to its legalization, as well as the social stigma surrounding birth control, and how some women were stuck with raising more children than they could handle because of the difficulty in obtaining birth control. Another question you could cover is the nature of abortion procedures prior to its legalization. Birth control as a movement in the US has had a very uneven relationship to movements for women s rights. Discuss early birth control reform efforts in relationship to issues of gender and class power. Birth control was an early-twentieth-century slogan, but it has become the generic for all forms of control of reproduction. With the spread of agriculture and the economic advantages of large families, religious and in some cases secular law increasingly restricted birth control, with the result that there appears to have been an increase in reliance on abortion while contraceptive technology and use declined. Both practices were legal in the United States until the mid-nineteenth century. Birth control as a movement in the US has had a very uneven relationship to movements for women s rights. Discuss early birth control reform efforts in relationship to issues of gender and class power. Birth control was an early-twentieth-century slogan, but it has become the generic for all forms of control of reproduction...
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...The elections for governor of Virginia in 2013 attracted attention because of the negative campaign with personal attacks from both of the candidates Terry McAuliffe (D) and Ken Cuccinelli (R). The media were quick to pick up on the political platforms of each candidate and started building up news stories. Terry McAuliffe is a known businessman that has been involved in the Democratic Party for quite a long time serving as a chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2001 to 2005. McAuliffe also was a co-chairman of President Bill Clinton’s re-election campaign and also was chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. McAuliffe’s first run for office was in the 2009 Virginia gubernatorial election where he did not win the democratic nomination (Biopgraphy Terry McAuliffe). On the other hand, Ken Cuccinelli was a more experienced politician, having been elected in the Virginia Senate in 2002 and 2007. In 2009 Cuccinelli was elected Attorney General of Virginia. During his time as an Attorney General, Cuccinelli was very vocal about his extreme right-wing like views on LGBT rights, climate change, immigration, and health care. He drew a lot of public attention and was often a subject of discussion in the media outlets (Senator Ken Cuccinelli). The start of the campaign was slow until The Washington Post (WAP) uncovered the relationship of governor McDonnell (R) with Jonnie Williams, the CEO of Star Scientific, a nutritional supplement company (The American...
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...9 Reasons Why Abortions Should Be Illegal http://www.mrdata.net/books/9reasons.htm EE: [ Home | Links | Searches | Books | Writings | HTML ] Discuss abortion in the MrData.Net Abortion Discussion Forum. Introduction: Planned Parenthood has written 9 Reasons Why Abortions are Legal. In response, I have written 9 Reasons Why Abortions should be Illegal. Nine Reasons Why Abortions Should Be Illegal Actually, I have been laughing to myself at Planned Parenthood's list, because it is so easy to defeat. It's not Planned Parenthood's fault--there are no good reasons to support abortion, other than serious health issues of the mother or baby. Also, I believe that Planned Parenthood serves many valuable functions. I agree with many things they do. I strongly disagree in their support of abortion. I only chose to debate their particular opinions because a) They are a large, national, pro-abortion organization. b) They have made a list, and my debate tactic suits such a list. I invite you to read the following debate with an open mind and consider the validity of the two opposing opinions. If you can find any error in my facts or reasoning, I hope you will let me know. I am an unmarried, conservative male. I have always been supportive of the life of the unborn. However, in the past my opinion was, "Well, the country is evenly divided on this issue. Although I am personally against abortion, there are others who don't agree with me. I won't force the issue unless there is...
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...as a fight for an unmarried young woman and her desire to terminate her pregnancy, even though it did not pose serious physical danger to her health. But, in the process of this struggle, an unprecedented judicial involvement emerged. II. This paper will first provide the necessary expository information, highlighting the central characters in this historical case, the political climate of the Supreme Court Justices during the trial, as well as a earlier case, Griswold v Connecticut which preceded Roe v. Wade. The paper will discuss the proceedings of the case at both the District and Supreme Court levels. Following, this paper will debate the surface issues of the abortion controversy, Roe as a precedent for future cases (Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Stenberg v. Carhart, and the breaking news decision of Gonzales v. Carhart), and the implied right(s) of the Constitution. III. In the 1970s, Linda Coffee and Sarah Weddington, two hot shot young lawyers from Texas, recruited Norma McCorvey as lead plaintiff under the alias “Jane Roe” in a class action suit lawsuit on behalf of US women everywhere. Coffee and Weddington had graduated from the University of Texas Law School within five years of going to trial for one of the most famous cases in Supreme Court history. The defendant was Dallas County District Attorney Henry Wade, an experienced lawyer known for prosecuting Jack Ruby, the man who shot Lee Harvey Oswald two days after Oswald shot President Kennedy. The...
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...Pro-choice Name Course Instructor Institution Date PRO-CHOICE Abortion is the termination or premature ending of pregnancy by removal or expulsion of a fetus or embryo from the uterus. An abortion can happen spontaneously because of complications for the period of a pregnancy, or the abortion can be induced. A therapeutic abortion is an induced abortion, which is carried out to save or preserve the health of the mother. An elective abortion is an abortion carried out for any other reasons. Therefore, abortion refers to the induced abortion of pregnancy. Abortion is generally used to mean an induced termination of pregnancy whereas a miscarriage is generally used to mean a spontaneous termination of pregnancy. In abortion, the termination is intentional while in miscarriage, the termination is not intentional (Naden, 2007). Pro-choice abortion is the conviction that all women have the absolute right to choose to whether to abort a baby from their bodies. The paramount view of the pro-choice is that a baby ultimately does not have any human rights within its mother’s womb. A Pro-choice abortion allows women to have a choice on how to abort the unwanted child. Characteristically, the method of abortion is ultimately determined by the fetus age. During the first trimester of the fetus growth, a woman can choose to have a Suction Abortion or to use pills popularly known as the morning...
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...We hear people say all the time, abortion is murder and it demeans the value of human life, or abortions expose women to various physical and mental health risk, when is abortion not murder, is there ever an instance when abortions should be permitted. Abortions are very common in our society. In the United States there are approximately 1.37 Million abortions performed per year, and approximately 3,700 per day. 52 percent of women obtaining abortions in the United States are younger than 25. Women aged 20-24 obtain 32 percent of all abortions; Teenagers obtain 20 percent, and girls under 15 account for 1.2 percent. An abortion is not a form of birth-control, and should only be permitted in special and emergency circumstances. Abortion is an irresponsible act of individuals that lack compassion. Abortion is a form of murder. A fetus has a heartbeat; therefore it is a living being. I remember hearing a touching, eye opening story; I am unsure of the source. However, there was a woman who went to the doctor’s office found out she was pregnant. As she stood holding her 2 year old daughter she explained to the doctor how she could not afford another child, she must get an abortion. She asked the doctor if he could perform the procedure while she is asleep to keep her from feeling any pain. The doctor responded, well I know of a procedure that can be performed where you wouldn’t have to go through any type of pain. I would not have to touch you at all. The mother was excited...
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...PHC6420 Spring 2013 Dated: Summary of Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey (1992). In 1973 Roe v. Wade created a political and legal uproar on issue of abortion. Under due process clause of the 14th Amendment, which declares that “no State shall deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law”. This due process of law has not been completely understood though court has spent years of defining redefining each component of due process clause. Women’s decision to have abortion before viability of fetus and to obtain it without interference from State .Interest of State to protect prenatal life and create hurdles for Women’s right to choose the procedure though few exceptions were considered where life of women and fetus after viability was in danger. This was challenged that states involvement in whole pregnancy process was not right and therefore court ordered involvement of state limited to trimester of pregnancy. This was argued too and later courts rejected trimester involvement and supported the fact that women has right to terminate abortion till fetus is viable The exact definition of viability became big controversy and this prompted a debate in entire nation and is still going on even today whether abortion should be legalized, who should decide the legality of the abortions, how much should be the state involved, what are the moral and ethical views regarding this issue. This controversy divided nation into pro-choice...
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...similar to an aspiration abortion but it usually takes about 10 to 20 minutes because more time is needed to prepare the cervix. In this specific type of surgical abortion, instead of using a suction device, medical instruments are used to empty the uterus. Throughout both procedures various medications can be used to reduce pain or make the process a bit easier (www.plannedparenthood.org) (en.wikipedia.org). Abortion can cause aftereffects both physically and psychologically. Some women who have had abortions have experienced infertility, later pregnancies that result in premature births, and an increased risk of breast cancer, depression, or post-abortion stress syndrome. Post-abortion stress syndrome can be defined as “a combination of reactions to abortion such as grief, nightmares about the abortion experience, sleep disorders, and other negative experiences that may last a few months or even years.” These aftereffects can be hard to scientifically prove because often women are not entirely honest about their experience because it takes such an emotional toll on them (Gay 46-48). Women feel the personal need to get an abortion for many reasons. One of the most common reasons women decide to get an abortion is because they feel the need to put their focus on the children they already have and they feel like having another child would jeopardize that. Another very common reason women opt to get an abortion is because they feel that they are financially unable to care for a child...
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...of these are terminated by abortion. Based on the government’s view of the economy they believe abortion is to be right. The connection between abortion and parenthood that’s followed by the birth of new born baby contributes to an argument where wealth and success are related to being child-free. Reactions surrounding the concept of motherhood make a woman feel stressed, powerless, and troubled. This leads to decisions that usually are rushed by anxiety and selfish thoughts. No man or women has the qualification or authority to deny someone their life, with life comes power and it’s not something to be tampered with, Abortion is beyond human morals and decency and is scientifically proven as murder. Taking control over your judgement is simple as turning a switch on, but being able to pay up for your choices are the consequences hiding behind the brief moment of happiness. The adolescent in almost every era are usually deceived by their curiosity and pressure applied by the great milestone of sexual intercourse. Teenagers never know from just insight, they always have to be from experience. It’s just how teenagers learn and quickly learn from the mistakes made from the lack of patience. Couples who have gotten themselves to this major position in a relationship have gone through the stage of sexual intercourse, planned or not. Their duty was encased upon them the second they chose sexual pleasure without thinking about the outcome. Having sexual intercourse just for the pleasure...
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...Dameka Towner PSYC 340 07/29/13 The effects of Hormones and behavior on gender identity Gender development begins when a baby is conceived, which why most women want to know the sex of their child as soon as possible. Boys and girl are treated different from the day they are born, causing the environment- nurture to affect gender development. Although nurture has a major influence on gender development, biological factors-nature also play a major part in the effects of gender development. In this paper the discussion that will address is the interaction between hormones and behavior and how they affect gender identity, also how the argument of how nature and nurture is the main affect gender identity. Biological factors play a huge role in children’s growth development. For example, boys and girls develop with a significantly different sex organs, and they also become more different when the onset of puberty sets in. Puberty is when the chemical messenger called hormones start to help with the formation of appearance from the physical changes occurring inside the body of an adolescent. According to Oswalt & Dombeck (2013), some researchers introduced the thought of same sex hormones that make sex organs differentiation in the uterus, which later triggers puberty. Naturally, human bodies go through the stage of puberty, and hormones have a lot to do with the development of the individual body during the onset of puberty. Hormones are leading players in the body’s...
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