population growth rate. In the 1950s‚ existing hospitals and health care facilities made birth control information available‚ but there was no aggressive effort to encourage the use of contraceptives and limitation of family size. By the late 1960s‚ many policy makers believed that the high rate of population growth was the greatest obstacle to economic development. The government began a massive program to lower the birth rate from forty-one per 1‚000 to a target of twenty to twenty-five per 1‚000 by the
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explore their sexual identity. For heterosexual youth‚ initiation of first sexual intercourse is associated with other life course transitions such as marriage and childbirth. Are people less likely to discuss birth control with their first sexual partners? And—among those who do not use birth control—are they more likely to want a pregnancy at first sexual intercourse? In doing so‚ we examine disability both as a function of specific limiting conditions as well as the severity in which the condition limits
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any time unprotected sexual intercourse occurs‚ or when a birth control method fails. For example‚ emergency contraception can help to prevent pregnancy after a condom breaks‚ a diaphragm slips out of place‚ or birth control pills are not remembered. While there is not just one official definition of emergency contraception‚ The Whole Truth of Contraception defines it as "a means of using a copper IUD [intrauterine device] or birth control pills to prevent pregnancy after unprotected intercourse"
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fpaindia.com). In the absence of control programs‚ India ’s ever growing population will lead to increased incidents of famine‚ disease‚ environmental stress and result in a severe shortage of housing facilities. However‚ if the Indian government quickly administers population regulations so that couples have‚ on average‚ 2 children by 2001-2006‚ India ’s population will stabilize at approximately 1.7 billion (www.fpaindia.com). A drop in both the fertility and birth rates is essential. To achieve
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Anti-Abortion Abortion is a serious topic that people have been debating about for years. Everywhere you turn the topic of abortion presents itself‚ on TV‚ in the newspapers‚ in books and magazines. It already has‚ and will continue to cause‚ controversy for years to come. As long as abortion remains legal‚ pro-life advocates will continue to protest what they believe to be these horrible acts of murder. Dating all the way back to the 1800 ’s‚ abortions have been taking place all over the world
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entering the population created by the baby boom first began to be noticed in the 1960s” (Teenage Childbearing as a Social Problem). What initially caught the attention of the public was fewer teenagers married and had fewer martial births to offset the growing number of births to single women. “As part of the teenage development stage‚ many teenagers become curious about the rapid changes in their body‚ and the strange passion of emotional feelings and attraction for the opposite sex. It is during this
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pregnancy. It is a growing epidemic that affects our culture and has begun to cramp an already declining economy. IMPORTANCE OF SEX EDUCATION 3 Importance of Sex Education This is a topic that for many years has fueled heated debates both personally and politically. Throughout the years many have made decisions that were later changed by someone else. In my personal opinion‚ I believe this type of education is just as important as the regular curriculum in every school today.
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The Culture of Life versus the Culture of Death During the 20th and 21st centuries mankind has encountered a major conflict that is a civil war of ideas – namely the Culture of Life versus the Culture of Death. The Culture of Death has been rampant. Consider the first and second world wars plus the many other bitter conflicts‚ genocides‚ massacres and the killing fields sacrificing the lives of millions of innocent human beings. Consider the savagery of the holocaust. Consider the damage
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in for generations. Women were fed up with being the quiet‚ subdued housewife and were ready to make their mark on the world‚ no matter what it took to do so. Another idea that rocked American society was the notion of planned parenthood and birth control. In Document D Margaret Sanger tells of the horrors of premature parenthood and gives countless reasons to avoid becoming a parent too soon. She blames children coming too soon for the “millions of marriages [that have been] blighted”. She resents
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where to get tested‚ and the necessary precautions to take when engaging in sexual intercourse. Many girls are on birth control‚ and some girls decide to have unprotected sex because they think there is no danger if you can’t get pregnant. Sadly‚ if you have unprotected sex on birth control‚ you can first and foremost still get pregnant‚ and you can still get STD’s/ STI’s. Birth control does not prevent them‚ which is why contraceptives should be used at all times. Not all teens learn about STD’s/STI’s
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