The RH Bill Friday‚ Sep 23 4:25 PM NOTE: "Leadership Reflections" shares views of the different members of the University Leadership Council on matters related to campus life and the operations of the University. As well‚ it features opinions on issues of national and/or international relevance. RH Bill: A Boon or Bane to Society? By Dr. Maria Cecilia M. Genove‚ Dean‚ College of Mass Communication If there is a strong argument on the passage of the Reproductive Health (RH) Bill‚ it is the
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she does not what to have a baby and ends up getting pregnant anyway. Also‚ each time a woman engages in sexual intercourse‚ she is not inviting the fetus to live inside her body. This is why birth control and other contraceptives are not a sure deal when dealing with sexual intercourse. What if the birth control method fails and the women end’s up getting pregnant? She did
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under age of 15 and 75 percent of adolescent under ages 19 report having had sexual intercourse. Despite their involvement some adolescents are not interested or knowledgeable about birth control method or symptoms of sexually transmitted disease. Consequently cases of unwanted pregnancy‚ abortions‚ illegitimate births and sexually transmitted disease have been a common phenomenon in the society. The problem of teenage pregnancy is common in developing countries and considerably worse in developed
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opportunities. 53% of teens admit not understanding sex or birth control and this is a reflection of one of the most fundamental causes of teenage pregnancy‚ ignorance. Indeed‚ teens in America‚ especially girls‚ are bombarded with mixed messages concerning sex. Sex is seen as immediate gratification with no consequences‚ but preparing for sex makes a girl promiscuous. Sex is seen all over the television and in movies‚ but equal treatment for birth control methods is completely absent. Open discussions about
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8-20 times likely to have one of the effects on other pregnancies like bleeding in the first few months‚ and less likely to have a regular delivery. A woman who has had an abortion will be 3 times more likely to die in the first few months of giving birth to another
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would like to raise my opinion on the following issues which I have researched extensively regarding the RH Bill: The RH Bill is anti-life – It is‚ in fact‚ pro-quality life‚ because it will ensure that all births are planned and wanted by their parents. The bill is not against the birth of children
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Written Report in Mapeh Group II Artificial Contraceptives and Natural Family Planning Artificial contraception‚ also known as birth control‚ are medications used to prevent pregnancy. The primary type of artificial contraception is the birth control pill. Types: Mechanical Devices – materials that are inserted or fitted to the reproductive system to prevent pregnancy. Such mechanical devices are condoms‚ which are inserted to the male genitalia‚ diaphragm‚ which is inserted to the
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the Food and Drug Administration approves the birth control pill. This is a huge accomplishment that I must say first began in 1848 when five women organize a two-day convention in Seneca Falls‚ N.Y.‚ to discuss women’s rights. This is when the women’s rights movement began. Remember that in 1916‚ Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in Brooklyn and was arrested within 10 days. She fought for women to have the rights to be able to control their own bodies and did not get legal support
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themselves in an attempt to self- induce abortion. (Archer‚ J.‚ 1991) After watching a Russian immigrant die from a self- induced abortion‚ Sanger vowed to dedicate her life to breaking “society’s taboo against investigating and distributing effective birth control information to women who needed practical knowledge to prevent unwanted pregnancies.”(Archer‚ J.‚ 1991) At that time‚ condoms were very expensive and not readily available‚ douching was considered to be taboo‚ and husbands did not want to practice
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Although the United states faces its biggest decline of abortion rate in 2009 at 784‚507 abortions as reported to CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention)‚ its number is still more than double of an information from Women ’s Health and Reproductive Right and Foundation of Thailand‚ and an organization in Thailand where birth control is non-prescriptive‚ that presents a number of 300‚000 abortions at a national average per yer. Abortion seems to be resulted from such a high unintended pregnancy
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