Sheila Campbell EN 1420 Comp 2 Dr. Moon September 25, 2014 Abortion has been controversial issue, since the beginning of time. There are two sides: Pro lifer based on culture and religious belief. Pro-choice a woman has a choice to choose whatever she chooses to do with her body. Abortion Should Remain a Woman’s Right According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC),“In 2010 more than 765,000 legally induced abortions were performed and reported from 49 reporting areas for women ages 15-44, with the majority of abortions performed on women in their 20s” (Abortion Surveillance, 2014).
Nearly half of all pregnancies that occur in the United States every year are unintended. These unplanned pregnancies 40% are terminated by abortion. According to the NAF, one in three American women will have an abortion by the age of 45. More than half of women who have abortions were using some sort of contraceptive method such as birth control pill or condoms. Using these methods people consider themselves
Neonatal nursing is subspecialty of nursing. This subspecialty of nursing works with infants born with a variety of needs, and problems. These problems range from prematurity, infections, cardiac malformations, birth defects, and surgical problems. Neonatal describes the first month of a newborns life, even though infants can have problems that will continue for several months. Neonatal Nurses usually care for infants who experience problems shortly after birth.
D&E, which stands for dilation and evacuation, is a type of in-clinic abortion that is used on women who are more than four months pregnant (Planned Parenthood, 2012). The abortion pill is another common type of abortion that women use. It can only be used to treat a pregnancy earlier than nine weeks (Planned Parenthood, 2012). The pill is about 97% effective and can cause incomplete abortions, where part of the pregnancy is still left inside the uterus
3. I am very concerned about the young girls who go through this. D. Need Step: 1. The New York Times, July 2004 states that 130 million women in Africa have been circumcised, and two million more girls undergo the practice every year in 28 countries. 2.
Lupus can be triggered at puberty, after childbirth, through sunlight, after prolonged course of medication, during menopause, after viral infection, or as a result of trauma. Lupus occurs in different ethnic groups. The reason for this is not known. In Caucasians the ratio is 1:1000, African Americans 1:250, and in Latinos 1:500. Ninety percent of the affected are women.
WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN EXPECTING Audience Analysis What to Expect When Expecting is the number one selling pregnancy guide written by Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel. The guide presents information in a question and answer format highlighting each of the nine months of pregnancy. Within its chapters are tips for having a healthy pregnancy, information on maintaining a balanced diet, and even a complete nutrition plan. Let’s take a look at the readers who would be interested in this guide. TARGET AUDIENCE The primary audience for this guide would be pregnant women—more importantly first-time mothers-to-be.
Most women were expected to deliver at least six children. Not only is that quite a few kids but they also were expected to have very short breaks from being pregnant. Normally every twenty to thirty months a woman was expected to conceive. The sixth child normally would not be born until after the age of forty. I don't know about you but being angry, moody and sick for fifty four months of my life does not sound fun, nor would I want to be fat for that long.
Abortion should be considered without any restrictions only if the mother’s life or health is at risk or incest has occurred. According to the Guttmacher Institute, in 1995, AGI collected information from 10,000 women who had received abortions that year. However, most of these women stated that their main reason for the abortion was due to low income, they were young between the ages of 18 and 24, they were separated or not married, and/ or was not affiliated with a religion. Only 3%, though, reported to have gotten an abortion because they were concerned for their own health and only another 3% of the women, Guttmacher Institute reported, were because of fetal health problems (Guttmacher
Low income women’s access to reproductive services is limited by their healthcare providers. There apparently is a difficulty with the Medicaid disbursement system. Since 1976, the Hyde Amendment has prevented women on Medicaid from using their insurance for abortion care, minor exceptions. The Hyde Amendment does however provide reproductive funding to women who have been raped and victims of incest, or when it endangers a mother’s life. As of now only 17 states have opted in on the option to use their own funding to expand Medicaid coverage.