lifting the age restriction for the “morning after pill” is not about freeing the parent of the burden of a teenage pregnancy but in fact it creates an added stress or anxiety at the thought of a child engaging in such a mature act and to repeat it under the assumption that this drug will keep them safe. Removing the right of parents to consent to this treatment could result in a tragic medical emergent if the parent is unaware that the child has taken the medication. The pill works by interrupting
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Why Teenagers Should be Involved in Government With the failure of some liberties in Communism‚ it is important that we understand our liberties and how it can affect our society. How we can understand and learn is based on the core and basis of each person of each community when they are young and open minded. Even though most students are too young to vote‚ that does not give an excuse to neglect and ignore the fact that they should take an active role in their community and nation. Many students
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Teenagers are a big subject of today’s media. We hear about them on the radio while we’re driving and on the TV at home. The media represents teenagers in a way that comes across as them being reckless alcoholics who are breaking the law. This is not always the case with the youth of today. There are many well-behaved teenagers out there. The following quote from Plato‚ I believe is false “What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders‚ they disobey their parents. They ignore
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Did you know that cultures like Judaism consider 13-year-old boys and 12-year-old girls as adults? Many people consider teenagers as adults at different times. Teens can be considered as adult at multiple ages including 16 18 and 21. Teenagers should be considered as adults at 21 when they have all the rights that a full-grown person has. Teens are usually considered as adults once they are allowed to drive and vote. This is because by the time you have all these rights your body is usually
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protest‚ should it be mandatory for adoptive parents to allow biological parent access to their biological children it simulates other people around the world to fight for what they believe in and vice versa.Throughout previous history in the United States‚ adoption has gone on since the 1920’s. When an adopted child is placed in another family the birth parents must give up their parental rights in order to move on with an official adoption. Some rights may be relinquished for birth parents or legal
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Gun control has always been a highly contested issue‚ some people believe that the government has no right to regulate the guns that they can obtain/the guns that they are allowed to own. However‚ others believe‚ for safety issues‚ that there should be a more thorough process to obtain guns and/or restrictions on the types of firearms that citizens can possess. The recent Oregon shooting has rekindled the debate of gun control‚ many advocates of both sides of the issue have recently started making
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One of the biggest fears parents have is raising their children the wrong way. Children don’t come with an instruction manual explaining how they work and what they want. A big controversy dealing with children is how to correctly discipline is them. Should you spank your children as a form of punishment and is it effective? This topic is extremely relevant because you’re dealing with the future. You never know what the child could be capable of‚ but if parents discipline them the wrong way you may
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Birth Control versus Abortion Melissa Frazier Com/156 03/13/11 With the vast amount of methods of birth control that is available today‚ abortions to end an unwanted pregnancy should not be an option. Both men and women have a multitude of options for preventing an unwanted or unplanned pregnancy that they are not ready for financially‚ emotionally or for any reason that they may have. Abortions are available into the third trimester. However‚ the methods of removing the unborn child or fetus
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Debate of Free Contraception and Birth Control If you watch or read the news today‚ you will find that there are many ethical and political issues that plague the United States. Many of these issues involve politicians debating over what is right or wrong for the country. One issue that particularly caught my attention was the huge debate over President Obama’s Health Care Reform Law requiring insurance plans to provide women with free contraception and birth control. The ethical issue that it presents
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the wrong reasons and try to show their authority.This is why we need to do something about gun control.Controlling guns is the only way to prevent unnecessary deaths in this world.Ways to control guns: Is reduce the usage of guns‚ making new laws and the last one is limiting people that don’t need the gun and also have a mental illness should not be allowed to use a gun. The First Reason is by having more strict laws on gun control is reducing the usage of guns.By controlling guns is making
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