The most explosive information about our society surfaced recently. In answering a question in Parliament‚ the Education Minister easily pulled statistics revealing that every year in our small population of 1.3 million‚ over 2‚500 teenage girls become pregnant; the majority of these unfortunate girls drop out of school; by age 19‚ over 1‚000 girls in this country already have four children; and 50 per cent of mothers in Trinidad and Tobago are single parents (Maraj 2014). Furthermore‚ the solutions
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One subject in society that is greatly debated is abortion. The debates are basically divided into "Pro-Life" and "Pro-Choice". Pro-life supporters want abortion to be illegal and not performed anywhere. Pro-choice supporters want the choice to be up to the woman and no one else. There is no ethical way to decide between the two subjects and it’s all based on what the person’s moral values. Abortion is the termination of an unwanted pregnancy by loss of or destruction of an egg‚ embryo or
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Legal Abortion: Arguments Pro and Con. Abortion is one of the most controversial issues in the world nowadays. Currently‚ abortion is legal in America‚ and many people believe that it should remain legal. These people‚ pro-choice activists‚ say that it is the women’s right whether or not to have a child. However‚ there are many groups who are lobbying the Congress to pass laws that would make abortion illegal. These people are called the pro-life activists. Both pro-life and pro-choice activists
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Abortion Murders an Innocent Baby The moral gravity of procured abortion is apparent in all its truth if we recognize that we are dealing with murder and‚ in particular‚ when we consider the specific elements involved. The one eliminated is a human being at the very beginning of life. No one more absolutely innocent could be imagined. In no way could this human being ever be considered an aggressor‚ much less an unjust aggressor! He or she is weak‚ defenseless‚ even to the point of
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Marcus Pope 4/23/2012 Dr. Audrey Anton Abortion In this paper I will argue that abortion is morally correct based on the situation at hand. The most common argument against abortion is that every person has a right to life. Abortion a very misleading factor in the social scheme of people lives today can never grasp the concept of rather it is right or wrong. Around for more than one hundred years and still pushing is the talk on abortion and rather it’s right or wrong. Taking the life
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[pic] Data was collected by the researcher name to numerous to mention in the community of Portsmouth which is situated in the northern area of the island of Dominica. It is a rather large community with a population of 5‚000 persons. This topic chosen for the research was no other than the effects of teenage pregnancy on the teenagers of the community of Portsmouth. This particular topic was chosen by me because
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After careful reading of Ernest Hemingway’s "Hills Like White Elephants"‚ it is very clear what it’s purpose is. The story takes in the Ebro River valley of Spain‚ where an American man and his female companion Jig are waiting for a train and having drinks discussing "doing it". Obviously‚ by "doing it"‚ they’re referring to whether or not they should have an abortion. At the end of the story‚ we can only assume that they decide to go through with the abortion‚ when Jig tells the American male "I
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Did you know that teen pregnancy has been increasing in the United States more and more each year? Approximately one million teenagers become pregnant year round‚ according to the National Campaign to Prevent Teenage Pregnancy. Around 750‚000 of 15- to 19-year-olds become pregnant each year‚ according to The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists‚ though many teenagers do not believe that they will get pregnant if they engage in sexual activity. Why are there so many teens pregnant?
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Daniel Halbert English 101 9/19/13 Hills like white elephants Life and death a choice debated every day in the world we live in. In the short story "Hills Like White Elephants" the author Ernest Hemingway skillfully uses the setting to hint the choice many of us face today. The decision of whether or not a fetus of an unborn baby should be aborted. from the symbolism of the hills‚ the tracks‚ and the states of each land we will be able to see the pros and cons of both choices. When the
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Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 47:1 (2006)‚ pp 16–24 doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2005.01538.x Abortion in young women and subsequent mental health David M. Fergusson‚ L. John Horwood‚ and Elizabeth M. Ridder Christchurch Health and Development Study‚ Christchurch‚ New Zealand Background: The extent to which abortion has harmful consequences for mental health remains controversial. We aimed to examine the linkages between having an abortion and mental health outcomes over the
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