comes changes to fit his or her beliefs and goals. Now that we have a new United States president‚ Americans can expect Donald Trump to make changes in government‚ laws‚ and changes our society. Donald Trump expressed greatly during the presidential debates about his disliking towards Obamacare and his plans to make changes to the healthcare program. While Obama was our president‚ he established a law called the Affordable Care Act which is part of his healthcare insurance‚ Obamacare. Under the Affordable
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Women’s reproductive rights have always been a taboo topic in American society‚ as well as throughout history. Abortion and birth control are two of the most debated rights‚ especially following last year’s election. The taboo topic has caused a rift between major political parties and citizens in the United States‚ and has been the catalyst of movements like the pro-choice and pro-life campaigns. Pro-choice is the idea that a woman should be able to decide what she wants to do with her own body
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Congress that seeks to promote on a national level access to information and the availability of natural and artificial contraception. It seeks to empower couples in responsible family planning through education and access to legal and medically safe birth control. The bill was first filed during the 8th congress in the Corazon Aquino administration and has been refiled in succeeding sessions. It has had an uphill battle due to extreme opposition mainly from the Roman Catholic Church‚ Pro-Life Philippines
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rights are a broad area of public policy that encompasses sexual education‚ family planning‚ contraceptives‚ reproductive health services‚ and terminating a pregnancy. During the 2016 presidential race‚ reproductive rights were the focus of many debates‚ press conferences‚ political speeches‚ and voters’ choices‚ especially with
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Abortion in Hills like White Elephants Abortion has been an ongoing national debate that continues on daily not only in North America but other countries as well. Medically an abortion means to permanently end a pregnancy. In the short story “Hills Like White Elephants” a couple are at a train station waiting for the next train to take a trip to get an abortion or “simple operation” ( Hemingway 201) as the man refers to it as in the story. The man is attempting to convince the young lady to get
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While the United States having the highest teen pregnancy rate in the industrialized world‚ new phenomenon’s controlling debates in today’s society consistently reflects upon teen pregnancy and the average age of teen mothers declining drastically. Controversies in today’s media‚ political debates‚ and views on birth control depict both ends of an abstruse teen pregnancy spectrum‚ as people choose to glamorize such motherhood or castigate it. In society‚ many people believe success can come easy
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Introduction The Reproductive Health Bill in the Philippines is all about the right to sexual and reproductive health‚ gender equality‚ equity and empowerment of women‚ universal access to reproductive health care services‚ methods‚ devices and supplies. There are 6 bills pertaining to reproductive health and/or population management that have been filed for deliberation in both the House of Representatives and the Senate for the 15thCongress. The most controversial of these bills is House
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The Control and Monitoring of Smoking and Alcohol Consumption during Pregnancy 1.1 Introduction When it comes to the topic of women and pregnancy there is much debate and controversy surrounding what a woman should and should not do with her body. A reason for this is that a woman is not only caring for herself but for another human being‚ as pregnancy entails “having a child or young developing in the uterus” (Oxford Dictionaries‚ 2016). This is why smoking and alcohol consumption during pregnancy
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church Authorities here in the Philippines oppose this proposed bill because according to them it promotes artificial methods of birth control and the legalization of the abortion. Artificial Birth control and abortion are against to the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church. While other non-religious groups called themselves as Pro-Life consider the artificial birth control as abortifacient or is life threatening not only to the unborn children but also the pregnant mothers. In my points of view‚
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on HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are commonly taught throughout high school class rooms‚ birth control and how to get access to contraceptives are spoken of less. Teens need to know the risk and consequences of unprotected sex. Studies indicated professionally prepared health educator were significantly more likely to teach 7 of 13 sexuality topics such as birth control‚ STD’s ‚ and abstinence compared to nonprofessionally prepared health educators(Rhodes 2). Even though there
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