because oral contraceptives hold the birth control market captive with 28.7 percent of women using contraceptives preferring this method (Jones‚ Mosher‚ and Daniels p 1). Since the late 1970s‚ the number of women who use oral contraceptives has been steadily increasing (Grimley an Lee 771). The Center for Disease Control attributes the increased usage of wide varieties of birth control for the teenage birth rate’s dramatic declining in the
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Life expectancy at birth (years) | Country | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | Australia | 79.75 | 79.87 | 80 | 80.13 | 80.26 | 80.39 | 80.5 | 80.62 | 81.53 | 81.63 | 81.72 | 81.81 | 81.9 | | Definition of Life expectancy at birth: This entry contains the average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year‚ if mortality at each age remains constant in the future. The entry includes total population as well
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Giving Birth Control Devices to Teenagers “The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently.” ~Margaret Smith There is a big debate on whether or not birth control devices should be given to teenagers. Both sides of this argument have valid points but society needs to be realistic to the facts that the age of teenagers becoming sexually active is at an early age. Society also needs to realize unwanted pregnancy rate is the highest in the United States. Of course parents of teenagers
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Birth control pills are not just for the sexually active. It was designed to originally prevent pregnancy. It’s original formula was an oral contraceptive pill. However‚ doctors and research have proven that taking birth control pills help many medical issues in women. Depending on the formula and dosage‚ birth control not only prevents unwanted pregnancy but gives women relief from issues regarding their menstruation cycle and reproductive diseases. The birth control pill was first marketed in
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“625‚000 teens became pregnant in 2010.” (Kaplan) Birth control is available to any teenager without parental consent in almost all states‚ excluding Texas and Utah. Teen girls should be able to have access to birth control without parental consent because it helps prevent teen pregnancy‚ it prevents young women from having to give their child up for adoption or having an abortion‚ and there are other benefits to taking hormonal contraceptives besides preventing pregnancy. About three in ten American
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Interesting and Useful Water Facts | | 1. Roughly 70 percent of an adult’s body is made up of water. 2. At birth‚ water accounts for approximately 80 percent of an infant’s body weight. 3. A healthy person can drink about three gallons (48 cups) of water per day. 4. Drinking too much water too quickly can lead to water intoxication. Water intoxication occurs when water dilutes the sodium level in the bloodstream and causes an imbalance of water in the brain. 5. Water intoxication is
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Birth Control Movement in the 1920s In the 1920s‚ life was more conservative than it is today. People did not openly talk about sex‚ planned parenthood‚ and they definitely did not agree on the use of contraceptives. Many people in the United States thought that birth control was morally wrong; however‚ a woman named Margaret Sanger would fight to make major changes in this generation that would change our outlook and our opinions about contraceptives forever. Margaret Sanger was passionate about
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WATER AS OUR NATURAL RESOURSE There are more than 326 million trillion gallons of water on Earth. Less than 3 % of all this water is fresh water and of that amount‚ more than two-thirds is locked up in ice caps and glaciers. With so much water around it seems like there is enough to see us through for millions of years. But did you know that even water‚ which seems to be in abundance‚ might one day become scarce? Each time you throw something as garbage‚ think of where it will finally end up. Whether
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Contraceptive pills generally known as birth control pills are used by millions of women around the world to avoid unwanted pregnancies. For most of them‚ the pill is a safe and very effective contraceptive. There are two types of contraceptive pills: • The combination pill which contains Estrogen and Progestin. • The progestin-only pill (generally knows as minipill). Combo pills are more effective than progestin-only pills; though‚ few women cannot tolerate estrogen and choose the progestin pills
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Birth control pills are medicine‚ which are taken to prevent unwanted pregnancies. The type of birth control pills I would like to share its pros and cons is Levora. The generic name of Levora is progestin/estrogen contraceptive and it is taken orally. In order to use this pill‚ the individual is not supposed to smoke cigarettes/tobacco and not be over 35 years. Levora contains two hormones: a progestin and an estrogen‚ which works mainly by preventing the release of an egg during menstrual cycle
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