The disadvantage of the Reproductive Health Bill in the Philippines is the undue focus being given to reproductive health and population and development‚ when many more urgent and important health problems need to be addressed in the country‚ those that cause a significant number of deaths across the country such as cardiovascular diseases and infections. Financial resources allotted by foreign donors to assist the Philippine government programs could actually be better spent towards pursuing health
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PREGNANCY OUTSIDE THE WOMB An auction for Marilyn Monroe’s plastic surgery notes‚ x-rays and other medical records was announced last October 7‚ 2013 in Los Angeles‚ USA. In one of her medical record‚ it is stated that the famous actress had ectopic pregnancy in the year 1957 (Reuter‚ 2013). Here in the Philippines‚ same pregnancy case was reported last December 2013 (Sun-Cua‚ 2013). Pregnancy starts in fertilization. In normal pregnancy‚ fertilization occurs when a woman’s ovary releases
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Smoking during Pregnancy Arsenic‚ rocket fuel‚ toilet cleaner‚ lighter fluid‚ and batteries; what if this were the newest baby food? American’s would be in outcry and rightly so. These ingredients are all poisonous‚ yet they aren’t just found in rat poison and household cleaners‚ they are found in cigarettes. Despite this 10% of women will smoke cigarettes regularly throughout their pregnancies even though they have full knowledge of the consequences (“Program”). The children of these mother’s
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Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA)‚ a 1978 amendment to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964‚ prohibits workplace discrimination on the basis of pregnancy. The impetus for the act was a 1976 Supreme Court decision‚ General Electric v. Gilbert‚ in which the Court held that denial of benefits for pregnancy-related disability was not discrimination based on sex (Gelb‚1996). This holding echoed past management decisions by which married women faced job discrimination and pregnant women were routinely
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Teen Pregnancy in the Media Three-quarters of a million teens between the ages of 15 and 19 become pregnant each year; eighty-two percent of those pregnancies are unplanned (“Peer Pressure Facts About Teenage Pregnancy” 1). Most teens that get pregnant do not have the education‚ money‚ or support system to raise a child‚ thus resulting in a poor life for the mother and the child (Wikipedia “Teenage Pregnancy” 3). Teenage pregnancy is a growing issue‚ especially in the United States‚ which is very
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Behavior of the mother during pregnancy and the parent’s role General Being pregnant is a very personal experience for each patient. This period in her life poses many new challenges and possible problems. How she responds to these challenges is dependent on her emotional maturity or lack of it. It is the responsibility of the practical nurse to help her understand and meet these challenges appropriately. You can help the patient‚ her mate‚ and significant others in their understanding of the physiologic
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are still in their teens according to the president of the PACE Foundation‚ Sonia Brown. We are urging citizens to take a stand and educate our children about contraceptives and the irresponsibility and lack of knowledge that leads to teenage pregnancy. Most teens that have children find it harder to become a part of the work force because their time is more focused on their child. They are less prepared to enter the working world because they are ill prepared due to being forced to be
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problem of pregnancy before marriage among teenagers. The problem of teenage pregnancy is resulted from the variation of sexual and social maturity. Ages and the social maturity is different between countries and cultural. In some of the develop countries‚ teenager pregnancy was occurs outside of marriage and most of the cultural is accompanied by the social persecution. In these countries‚ they trying to uncover the causes of teenage pregnancy and try to limit the number. Teenage pregnancy before married
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the truth. Over the past few decades‚ the problem of teen pregnancy has grown considerably in this country. It has been receiving a great deal of public and official attention recently‚ including expressions of concern from President Clinton and New Jersey’s Governor Whitman (Schurmann 7). However‚ the most extensive dilemma regarding the issue of adolescent pregnancy is the incredibly important question of prevention. Preventing teen pregnancy includes such problems as the availability of birth control
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The Pregnancy Project Gaby Rodriguez’s The Pregnancy Project is a memoir that focuses on the high rate of unexpected teen pregnancies in low income‚ poverty-ridden areas. Rodriguez’s personal experiences with teen pregnancies through her family inspired her to encourage a change. Her mother and her siblings each became a teen parent‚ and Rodriguez became a witness to the hardships and struggles faced when teens experience an unintended pregnancy‚ and struggle to financially support their child(ren)
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