Medicalization of Women’s Bodies: Pregnancy‚ Birth‚ and Menopause Pregnancy‚ birth‚ and menopause are some of the natural processes many women undergo in their lives. While medicalization of these experiences is beneficial for women’s emotional and physical wellbeing‚ unnecessary medical interventions can produce negative consequences‚ harming the mind and the body. Despite the tendency toward relying solely on medical professionals’ opinions‚ women’s experiences should be weighed equally or more
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situations rely on the services of Planned Parenthood to maintain their health. Planned Parenthood faced detestment since the beginning of the establishment‚ when it was named the Birth Control Federation of America. Margaret Sanger‚ the organization’s founder‚ was jailed for 30 days after opening the first birth control clinic in
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Policy Paper: Perception of Teachers and Parents towards Hispanic Pregnancies & Birth Control Distribution In Public Schools Tangela Norman-Sheppard SOWK 7360/ Policy and Practice in Human Services Our Lady of the Lake University Professor: Dr. Brian Christenson I. Executive Summary Teenage parenthood is by no means a new social phenomenon. Historically‚ women have tended to childbearing during their teens and early twenties
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secondary and high schools. The question is controversial due to the main subject it discusses: sex. Some schools today are distributing birth control items to promote the thoughts and ideas of safe sex. Is it right? Yes‚ many have agreed that it is right. Many also believe that along with condom distribution‚ there should be an availability of other methods of birth control‚ promotion of abstinence‚ and information for students on what being safe really means. We have to face it that the
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Solutions to Teen Pregnancy Solutions to teen pregnancy include providing teens with sex-education programs‚ better access to birth control‚ and investing in critical after-school programs. These interventions are proven to reduce rates of teen pregnancy and STDs‚ and promote responsible behavior. Sexuality Education Teens must be given the information necessary to protect themselves against unintended pregnancy and STDs. The most successful programs aimed at reducing teenage pregnancy
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pregnancy 100 percent. B. Condoms‚ when used properly will help prevent teen pregnancy and STDs. C. Birth control pills have to be taken a certain way to be effective. Birth Control 101. (2011). Retrieved November 17‚ 2011‚ from The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy: http://stayteen.org/birth-control-101 This article talks about how using birth control will help prevent teen pregnancy. The article also states that abstinence is the only way to
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With teenage pregnancy being ever prominent‚ it is very important for teenage girls and boys to have access to birth control in order to avoid an unintended pregnancy. Birth control and sex education is a controversial subject in many communities. The type of comprehensive health education or sex education information made available to teenagers through school is dictated by law. In South Carolina‚ schools are required to teach abstinence and provide information concerning sex as a future reference
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such as not being able to have kids in the future or having a hard time having a baby in the future. It is also possible for a women to die due to an abortion. Conceptions rose by nearly 30 percent‚ but births actually fell by 6 percent‚ indicating that many women were using abortion as a method of birth
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and birth control. I did not realize before this presentation that there were so many types of birth control for women. I believe Ms. Johnson spoke of at least 5 different types. One of my favorite parts of the presentation was how well Ms. Johnson explained everything and how funny she made the presentation seem. She kept going on and on with the funny jokes‚ which actually made the situation a little less awkward than it should have been! I also enjoyed how on some of the types of birth control;
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right to obtain birth control without parental consent. How about allowing a minor to have the ability to with draw information based on birth control and contraceptives? Are minors physically and mentally mature to make these choices on their own? If teens should have such a right to make these life-altering decisions on his or her own should everyone else be held accountable if anything went wrong? We believe that minors essentially need to have parental consent to obtain birth control and contraceptives
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