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anymore. Even though the teen pregnancy rate has declined over the past few decades, the fact of the matter is that the United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate of the Western industrialized world. Most of the teen pregnancies occurring before 1980 were to married women; now most of today’s teen mothers are unwed. Parenting is the leading reason that teen girls drop out of high school. Less than two percent of teen moms earn a college degree by age thirty. Two-thirds of families…

including oral/hormonal contraceptives such as birth control, barrier contraceptives such as condoms, and intrauterine contraceptives such as hormonal IUDs (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development).…

Some of the immediate effects are weight gain, acne, mood swings, and breast pain (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops). The media often misinforms the audience of the long term effects. Studies have shown that using birth control increases the risk of breast cancer in women compared to women who have never used the pill. The risk is higher among women who started taking oral contraception as teenagers. The risks eventually go away and normalize after stopping consumption…

history of birth control goes back as far as 3000 B.C. when condoms were made out of fish bladder or animal intestines. In 1916 Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in Brooklyn with contraceptives that she smuggled from Europe. At this time “birth control was a radical idea that challenged conventional notions of women’s sexuality and reproduction” (483). Before 1916 both genders struggled to get birth control. In 1873 The Comstock Act allowed mail carriers to confiscate birth…

Even though teen pregnancies happen in all socioeconomic and demographic groups, a high proportion of teen births occur in low-income families.(1) This could be because of the low-income families or usually do not have educational opportunities to learn about prevention or have low access to health care. This also applies to teens raised in poverty by single…

include arguments for and against including LGBT sex education into the curriculum, debating whether sex education should focus on promoting abstinence or birth control as the main form of contraception, and the morality surrounding the controversial issue. One of the first instances of sexual education becoming a public issue was in the 1980’s, due…

perfect homemaker, while their husbands where the true base of their relationship providing financial stability necessary for living comfortably. In the 1960’s, the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of contraceptives like birth control pills for married women. An advantage of this from Nancy Cohen would be that “the Pill was both reliable and controlled by a woman herself, requiring neither the consent nor the knowledge…

reproductive rights. What are Reproductive rights? Reproductive rights refer to the choices an individual have and that can have an impact on their body. There are many choices that an individual can be made in regards to reproductive rights such as Birth control, Abortions, and, Adoption. Reproductive rights are an important subject matter because in the late 1960’s African American women’s did not have the same privileges as their white counterparts (Marlene Fried 2013). African American…

multiple forms of contraceptives, however, the two most common are birth control and condoms. Focusing on birth control, “the Pill was first approved in 1960, [and] birth control continues to work in only one of two ways: by preventing fertilization or by preventing ovulation” (Watkins, 2012, p. 1462). Birth control has changed and developed immensely over the years. A long time ago in AD 354-430, Augustine took a stance on birth control saying “it was gravely (a mortal sin) if married people…

it is not just about abortion. Also, it is the reason Planned Parenthood has turned into a talisman to one side, an image of what they fear most ladies controlling their own, particular regenerative predetermination. 66% of the 1 million premature births in this nation are undertaken by private professionals other than Planned Parenthood, yet there are no mass dissents and…