...Morning After Pill The morning after pill is a cheap, effective way to prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex. In fact the morning after pill is the only morning after pills that have Food and Drug Administration approval in the U.S. It is also available over the counter in quite a few drug stores. Education A few years back there was a big debate about whether or not in the U.S. we should include sex education in the curriculum. I seriously don’t think that we have much of a choice to do so in today’s society. Today’s teenagers are smarter, faster, and probably a lot more cunning and clever when it comes to sex and how they present themselves. I venture to say that out of 10 teenage girls under the age of 18, 6 of them are having sex and that’s a tragedy. The education has to start at home. It has to start with mom and dad having those uncomfortable conversations. I personally have had to have them at least once a month. I do it because I know how I was as a teenage boy and all I probably thought about was sex and how to get some. It’s hard to control your flesh as a teenager, very. Secondly, the U.S. school systems should have a lot more programs in place that help teenagers and urge them to open up about sex. Certainly if we can teach our kids about everything else that goes on in the world, then we can talk to them more about sex. Choices Do I think that it should be a teenage kids choice as to whether or not they should take the morning...
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...Plan for the Morning-After Pill BCOM/275 June 16, 2013 Dr. J’Marcus C. Adam Judge Reluctantly Approves Government Plan for the Morning-After Pill The morning after pill was just approved by Judge Edward Korman of the Eastern District Court of New York. This pill has been around for years but it was available to females with a prescription from the age of 17 and older. Obama has been against the Plan B pill being available over the counter since he has been in office. Obama filed an appeal on May 1, 2013 against the bill because of the age limit. The bill states that females of any age can purchase the over the counter Plan B pill. Obama would like for the plan B to be available to teenager starting at the age of 15 and up. On May 22, 2013 the bill was passed by the state senate with a vote of 34-10. On June 10, 2013 the Obama admiration reverse course on Plan B pill which allows Judge Edward Korman to approve the Plan B pill on June 13, 2013. The plan B will come in the form of generic and will be sold over the counter. With this bill being passed this will allow teenagers to use this as there form of contraception. But the morning after pill doesn’t protect you from sexual transmitted diseases. I am very much against this bill because I am Christian woman who doesn’t believe in abortion. Who believes in traditional measure of contraception? I feel this will allow teens at an early age to start having sex. The morning after pill will be putting...
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...teens under the age of 15. This can be stopped by the many different kinds of contraceptives. There are pills you can take like the combination pills, mini pills, or plan B. Also there are different kinds of devices that can be put in you like NuvaRing, IUD’s, and Depo-Provera. Other methods you can use that don’t involve hormone doses are abstinence, condoms, and Spermicides. Abstinence is when you don’t have sex at all. If the sperm is never entering the vigina then there is no chance for it to fertilize the egg. Spermicides work differently. There is sexual intercourse and the spermicides are a lube like substance that is supposes to kill any sperm it comes in contact with. So if used as lube the sperm comes out of the urethra and in to a pool of spermicides and dies on contact. Condoms work as a trapper. They cover the penis during intercourse and when the man ejaculates the latex casing catches all the sperm and keeps it from entering the vigina. These are all forms of birth control that don’t deal with hormones. The next set of birth control deals with the releasing of hormones to keep you from becoming pregnant. Combination pills contain a combination of the hormones estrogen and progesterone to prevent ovulation, the release of an egg during the monthly cycle. A woman cannot get pregnant if she doesn't ovulate because there is no egg to be fertilized. The Pill also works by thickening the mucus around the cervix, which makes it difficult for sperm to enter...
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...Campbell “Pool” The short story ”Pool” is written by Corey Campbell in 2009. The short story “Pool” plays out at Trevor and Mandy’s (who are married) house. At their house, we follow the main character Darla who is in a relationship with Jon. Jon is also good friends with Trevor. Darla and Jon had an accident the day before where a condom had split. Darla and Jon then went out and bought morning-after pills, but Darla was still afraid of getting pregnant. It made her think a lot on her future, and if she where even going to be a good mother. Darla then studied Mandy’s, to see if Mandy’s live was something for her. Again, the Main character is Darla. Darla is an okay young girl and doesn’t like to take chances. One thing that she makes clear is that she do not want to be a mother. For example at page 1 line 16 the narrator says, “ Their condom had split the night before, so they’d spent the morning going to two different Rite Aids to get the morning-after pill”. Therefore, Darla does not want to take any chances, even when the first Rite Aids doesn’t have the morning-after pills. In addition, when Jon ask Darla if she wants a sip of his beer, she says no, since the box says no alcohol. Darla is afraid of the changes that will come if she and Jon gets a child. As she/trevor says on page, 4 line 158-160 “it all changes with a kid”. In addition, one of her fears of having a kid, as she says on page 3 line 80 “I’d be horrible at it. I’d start drinking. I know I would”...
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...state regulations of health care delivery will put pressure on religious providers to give care even if it is against their philosophical foundation or they will risk the chance of going out of business because of the lack of government funding like Medicare and Medicaid. The states pursuit of reform and the provisional requirement of health care services are now increasing even more, hospitals are now more reliant on government funding so there is a tension between Catholic hospital and government to give patients the proper care that is needed which is not based on moral beliefs. Because Catholic hospitals frequently cite religious, and moral beliefs as the bases for rejecting patient demands for abortion, and in this case the morning after pill as discussed in the Brownfield case this looming conflict between religious freedom and patient access for care will continue to grow. This growing conflict has brought...
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...Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther king Jr., Albert Einstein and Princess Diane all these great people could have ceased to exist if their mother’s had an abortion. Imagine the civil rights movement, science or humanitarianism without them here. Pro-life is the best way to treat conception because today’s children can be tomorrow’s contributors to society. Over 46 million abortions were done from 1973 because of the Roe decision. In the decades after young women have realized abortion could have been the decision of their mothers as well this belief is as so known as the survival of abortion according to Hanz Zeiger a student at Hillsdale College and author of Reagan’s Children. The babies born between the 1981 and 1989 are “standing up for Roe’s babies” says Zeiger. With every abortion our generation is fighting back with more young women choosing pro-life instead of abortion. Abortion comes at a high price to the well being of a woman’s physical and mental health. According to groups like National Right to Life’s American Victims of Abortion “Women deserve better”. The post abortion mental torment can prove to be life changing experience causing severe insecurity and guilt. Abortion in many causes is more strenuous on the body then going though the entire pregnancy. According to the studies of Glamour magazine young women are choosing life more then abortion tactics. The survey says women from the age 18-29 are more in favor of pro life. The polls suggest that...
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...baby's fault and you shouldn’t take away a life because some chose to take away yours. There are so many forms of abortion, Plan B pill, early term and later term abortion, the abortion pill. Most of abortions are done in the first trimester of the pregnancy (first 12 weeks), some are done in the second trimester (12-24 weeks), in rare cases it’s done in the third trimester (24-36 weeks.) ("Services And Support." - Better Health Channel. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Apr. 2016.) Only 14% of gynecologist will perform an abortion, that leaves 86% who will not perform an abortion. 5.8 million women have used the “morning after pill”, 11% of United States women ages 15-44 have used the Plan B pill before. This pill has only been around for seventeen years, after the FDA approved it. The report finds that 23% of Page 3 sexually experienced women ages 20–24 had ever used emergency contraception, compared with 16% ages 25–29 and 14% ages 15–19. Just 5% of women 30–44 said they had ever used it. (Jayson, Sharon. "5.8M Women Have Used 'morning After' Pill." USA Today. Gannett, 14 Feb. 2013. Web. 27 Apr. 2016.) A lot of women do not think this is a form of abortion, but it’s stopping a pregnancy that may occur in the future. The Plan B pill is 98% effective 24 hours after inner course, 89% effective within 72 hours after inner course. ("Plan B (Morning-After Pill): Effectiveness and Side Effects." WebMD. WebMD, n.d. Web. 27 Apr. 2016.) One out of three women have an abortion in their lifetime....
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...summer at the end of July and the beginning of August my grandparents were out of town so they put me in charge of their dog Jake. Their dog Jake is highly neurotic and even though he isn’t a person he is heavily medicated and that doesn’t mean just a few pills it means about seven or eight different pills that he has to take. Jake has a pill box, it is a box for old people because they can’t remember to show if they have taken their medication or not, and this is for a dog not a person. The worst part about it is that they had a dog that was eighteen years old and she didn’t need medicine, but the five year old dog does. Also on the door to go out of the kitchen there is step by step instructions on how to take care of the dog and make sure he isn’t ‘depressed’. In the morning I have to give him the pills and not just handing it to him in your hand I had to hide it in mayonnaise and what I thought was roast beef, but I might not have been. I had to make sure to put it on the center island which at my grandparents house is this about five foot tall wooden cart. When I put the clump of roast beef on the island it makes this wet slapping sound because it came from the fridge cold and nasty. The whole point in putting the pills in the roast beef is because dog aren’t supposed to have medication because it’s a dog....
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...Prom night Jane was having a good time with her date the guy she has had a crush on for a while John. Well John wants to go to a hotel for after prom to do something he will regret doing or will change his future and Jane’s future. He tells her it is okay when really he know that it is not ok what he is telling her and what he will be doing to her. He pressures her into sexual intercourse and he does not use any kind of protection to make sure something that happens once can change someone’s life. Weeks later, Jane does not have her period and is having major pains in her stomach which scares her. She tells her mom what happened and that is what everyone who is sexualy active needs to do is to tell their parents, even though they do not want...
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...inaugurated a pilot program called CATCH { Connecting Adolescents To Comprehensive Health} made to curb the alarming rates teen pregnancy here in New York City . Although students throughout the nation has had condoms at their dispense people are now outraged by program which allows the school nurse to administer plan B an emergency contraceptive known as the morning after pill as well as birth control through the form of injection and orally . This can be done without the consent of the parents unless they’ve chosen to opt their children out of the program. People like the executive director Greg Pfundstien, of the Chiaroscuro Foundation, one of the anti- abortion groups feel it’s unethical and doubts that this program will work. Says Jonathan Allen of the Reuters an online news source . Although abortion groups may view the morning after pill as a form of abortion when in essence it is simply a high dosage of the actual birth control pill , which can be taken up to seventy-two hours after intercourse , to halt pregnancy . The morning after pill is a freedom of women’s right’s even though high school students are minor’s they should still have access to contraceptives that are safe to use and are preventive measures against teen pregnancy this will eliminate abortion’s . Plan B will allow teens to have more opportunities afforded to them and their parents due to a decrease in the teen pregnancy epidemic...
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...Although I lack female genitals, I am pro-choice in most circumstances regarding unwanted pregnancies. I think that the decision to have an abortion is the mother’s choice (sometimes father if he is willing to provide sole custody). I know that unplanned events happen in life and sometimes a woman has an unplanned pregnancy. To remedy this problem, she may have an abortion which is understandable. However, abortion should not be used as a steady form of birth control when a woman becomes pregnant from her careless mistakes. Overtime, having multiple abortions can cause complications such as uterine scarring which may affect the women’s chance of becoming pregnant if she choices to do so later in life. Furthermore, abortions are costly which...
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...Rebuttal Paper Dayna Kielau BCOM/275 January 16, 2012 Plan B One Step is an emergency contraceptive pill that prevents the fertilization of an egg after unprotected sex. The FDA wanted Plan B One Step to be made available without a prescription to all ages. The Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius overruled this. “The result of Sebelius' action is that Plan B will remain available to women ages 17 and older without a prescription, but those 16 and younger will still need to see a doctor first in order to get the product.” (www.npr.org) The decision was also backed up by President Obama. In a news conference Obama stated “I will say this, as the father of two daughters. I think it is important for us to make sure that we apply some common sense to various rules when it comes to over-the-counter medicine. And as I understand it, the reason Kathleen made this decision was she could not be confident that a 10-year old or an 11-year old goes into a drugstore, should be able – alongside bubble gum or batteries – be able to buy a medication that potentially, if not used properly, could end up having an adverse effect. And I think most parents would probably feel the same way.” (www.npr.org) “As doctors and researchers have repeatedly stated, ample research shows Plan B to be safe for women of all ages and appropriate for over-the-counter access. It is deeply disappointing that this administration would repeat the mistakes of the previous one,”...
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...Analysis of Corey Campbell, “Pool”, a short story, 2009 The short story, Pool, is written in 2009 by the author, Corey Campbell. We follow our main character, Darla, who is in a relationship with a man by the name Jon. The story plays out at the house of Trevor and Mandy, who are married. Darla is a very humble woman. There are various scenarios to prove this. (Line 73) ”Sorry(...)I did not mean to disturb you”, (line 123) ”It’s OK, I can sit out”. There are many more. The night before, the condom split. The next morning they go out to get a morning-after pill (line 16, ”Their condom split the night before, so they'd spend the morning going to two different Rite Aids to get the morning-after pill”.) This shows that Darla does not wish to have a child. When Darla is offered a sip from Jon's beer, she refuses. The pill advices that she does not drink any alcohol. The package states the success rate is 99%, yet Darla does not take any risks. She tries to make fun of herself as a mother (line 80,”I'd be horrible at it. I would probably start drinking. I know I would (...) Just kidding”) because the idea of her becoming a mother is, maybe, not something she wants to consider. She seems to fear having a child. Having a child means that one must open up to the real world. One must develop as a human being. One must no longer be narrow-minded; in the sense that one cannot see beyond their own benefits in any given situation. (Line 158) ”It all changes with a kid”. Darla is...
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...Off-the-Shelf Birth-Control Pills?” Elisabeth Rosenthal wonders if the time is ripe for a new government approach to oral contraceptives. When a federal judge recently ordered the Food and Drug Administration to make the morning-after pill available to women of all ages without a prescription, the ruling was a political embarrassment for the Obama administration and unleashed protests from abortion foes and abstinence advocates. But that controversy may look like a tempest in a teapot compared with a broader and no less heated discussion that is roiling the medical community: should birth-control pills of any type require a doctor’s prescription? Or should they be available, like Tylenol, on pharmacy shelves? Last December the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists released an official position paper concluding that the time had come for birth-control pills to be sold over the counter. It was the first time the group had endorsed such sales, concluding that scientific evidence suggested that the practice was safe and calling it “a potential way to improve contraceptive access and use, and possibly decrease the unintended pregnancy rate.” After all, oral contraceptives have been available in the United States for more than half a century, and few medicines have been so thoroughly vetted. Despite some catchy new brand names, the pills I took 25 years ago are essentially the same as those my daughter takes today. If anything, pills have become safer because they...
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...Introduction: There are three main different views of whether of the abortion debate. Most of the debate is if the fetus is considered a human or not is the main argument. For the pro-life side of the abortion debate, they mainly say that it should be considered human. Of course the pro-choice feel just the opposite usually. Me personally, I feel consider myself to be Pro-Life because I don’t think that we have enough information on the fetus and I could never consider killing a human (or even a fetus). I feel that the parents should have taken responsibility and taken the appropriate actions such as choosing absence, or at least using protection. Hopefully, you tend to see my view and will hopefully agree after looking at the opposition...
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