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    Abortion Should be Legalized             The issue of abortion is very controversial in today’s society.  Although many people think it shouldn’t be legalized‚ there are just as many who  think it should.  Your opinion rests with you and possibly the values you were  brought up with.  Whether you think women should have the right to abortion or  not‚ you can find support for either side.             Many individuals take the side of anti-abortion or pro-life which means 

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    Abortion is wrong! I believe abortion is wrong for many reasons. You hear everyone say it is your body you should be able to make your own decisions and I do agree to a point; however‚ you chose to have sex. You knew going into it that you could possibly get pregnant. Contraceptives are never 100%. Maybe if you cannot support a child maybe you shouldn’t be having sex? It’s so wrong that our money goes to Planned Parenthood and things of this nature to also help fund abortions. Adoption is always

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    Mitchem Rough Draft June 18‚ 2013 Lazzo As a teenager I remember in my first advanced high school English class when abortion got brought up and it became a huge debate. My very religious and not to mention Catholic English teacher stood up and quoted Mrs. Hilary Clinton saying “I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion." It stuck with me and changed my outlook on the Pro-Life/Pro-Choice debate. As an advocate of women ’s rights to

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    Criticisms of Durkheim: -Assumes societies have a shared culture which can be transmitted through the education. In fact Britain is now multicultural‚ and therefore can we base school curriculums on one single culture. -New Right and New Labour perspectives on education have tended to emphasize the economic importance of education and have downplayed the significance of transmitting a shared culture. -Some researchers question whether in practice schools do act in the way that Durkheim describes

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    Critically evaluate the functionalist perspective on education (20 marks) Functionalist’s perspective on education is based on the consensus theory of equality. They tend to believe that education helps to maintain society by socialising young people with the value of achievement‚ competition and equality of opportunity. Education also teaches the skills to help the economy. For example‚ literacy‚ numeracy and IT for particular occupations. Role allocation is all part of this; education allocates

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    law. Social norms dictate informal deviance. The functionalist perspective of deviance is that crime is inevitable because not everyone can or will be equally committed. A lot of social change seems to begin with a form of deviance. For example‚ the Civil Rights Movement. People such as Rosa Parks who spoke out against segregation by simply going against what was customary at the time were performing acts of deviance. The conflict perspective of deviance is that it does not go along with social

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    Abortion Abortion in certain cases can be an acceptable procedure however not in all cases. I believe abortion is acceptable when particular events arise. If the mother is raped or cannot hold the child or‚ an abortion would be wrong if its incest and the child will come out in with a defect. Abortion is acceptable if the mother has a disease that can be passed down to the child that will harm or kill her baby. If the mother gets an abortion because she can’t support the baby‚ that is not a reason

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    Abortion George Carlin once said‚ “How come when it’s us‚ it’s an abortion‚ but when it’s chicken‚ it’s an omelette” (Quotes). The controversial issue of abortion was first majorly recognized when a woman in Texas named Jane Roe challenged the laws of the right to an abortion. In Texas‚ abortion could only be performed when a licensed doctor felt that the child was endangering its mother. However‚ Roe thought that she had the right to a safe and legal option to end her pregnancy‚ so she took her

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    surrounding the controversial topic of abortion. The paper displays the views of the members of my community . The main idea of the paper is centrally relevant to the topic of how abortion affects relationships; the causes and their effects. Abortion is a common practice among the women of today’s society. Though many pro -life activists argue that it is murder‚ many women feel it is their right to make decisions that will affect their bodies. By definition‚ the term abortion refers to the premature termination

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    In Malaysia‚ there are one abortion for every five pregnancy in the country. Eventho this number might not be higher compared to some western countries‚ it is still consider a major and serious problem for a developing country. Some of the places which are less developed in the third world countries such as Vietnam which currently has the highest rate of abortion have one abortion out of three pregnancy. This would be equivalent to aborting 33333 babies out of 100000 babies which would also means

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