This act required all states to raise their legal age to twenty one; if they refused, their annual federal highway dollars would be cut by ten percent. This act was backed by Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD). According to MADD the drinking age of twenty one has saved some seventeen thousand lives since 1988. (Daniloff) One of the main groups leading the charge to have the legal age lowered is college presidents all over the United States. In 2007 former Middlebury College President John McCardell founded Choose Responsibility (CR).
The vaccine is the first of its kind to build immunity against two strains of HPV, which lead to 70% of cervical cancer cases in the United States. Merck was on a roll until parents, who were being threatened with state mandates forcing their little girls to get three doses started. Gardasil vaccine is perhaps one of the most controversial vaccines to date. (Lopes) Let’s not forget that Merck is the same company that brought us Vioxx, and knew or should
Some of the experiments have shown that Presidency’s with the pro-choice value that there has been a decline in abortion rates, when a lot of these have turned up to be false. Pro-life officials have been in the running of trying to reverse Roe vs. Wade court case, but it has not been successful, but in the court case of Casey vs. Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania it has added regulations to abortions. With this decision it sparked legislators in almost all states to change ways and give more regulations of abortion. Since these regulations have been enforced in nine years abortion had dropped by 18 percent.
This was introduced in the mid 1960’s which allowed women to take control of their own fertility, which saw more women use contraception’s so birth rates decreased as a result of this. Over the past 25 years, 35% of all conceptions for the 18 - 19 age groups have ended in terminations and 20% of all conceptions are legally terminated. Also the legalisation of abortion in 1967 has had a huge impact on the number of birth rates, women were able to terminate their pregnancy & either focus on their career or decide not to have children. For Botting and Dunnell (2000), legal abortions have “contributed to the falling birth rates” amongst various age groups. Moreover because of these birth control techniques family sizes have decreased as more and more women now have more control over births than they did in the 1900’s, so they are choosing to have less children as a result of this.
We have already stopped Joe Camel so we will use our experience with him to apprehend “The Killer Clown”. Forty years ago lung cancer and other diseases plagued the United States, creating a major health problem. So in 1965 the U.S. Congress came up with the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act, which banned all advertising of cigarettes in the broadcast media, and also required a health warning on all tobacco products. Four years later the Congress created the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act, which banned smoking in certain places, made buying cigarettes harder for children, and also significantly increased excise taxes on tobacco (Engelhard). These Acts where put into place because the health of the American people was at stake and in my opinion this is what needs to be done to fast food.
“But by the late 70s, the minimum drinking age was all over the map, literally, with various states having tacked on an extra year or two.” The statistics speak for their selves; clearly the proper drinking age has fluctuated a few times before a concrete law for drinking was set in stone. Finally some odd years later a group called ‘Mothers Against Drunk Driving’ ordered all fifty states to comply to making the proper drinking age 21. “…in 1984, the federal government, backed by Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), ordered all 50 states to raise their legal drinking age to 21 years old or suffer a 10 percent cut in their annual federal highway dollars.” This action performed by Mothers Against Drunk Driving raised quite a few eyebrows, only initiating more arguments and more chaos. However, the refined age limit has simply saved more lives than harming them. “According to MADD, the National Minimum Drinking Age Act (NMDAA) has saved some 17,000 lives on the highways since 1988.” These set of
Naloxone was FDA approved in 1971 and has been used for decades by emergency medical services for reversing opioid overdose and reviving victims who otherwise would have died (Leavitt, 2010). I decided to do this paper for two reasons, one, this problem is not going away. The ‘war on drugs’ is not a war that we are going to win. But with the availability of Naloxone, it may save lives so that recovery is still an option in this fight. Background Approximately 15,000 people die each year by overdosing on opioids, a rate that has more than tripled since 1990 (Wermeling, 2012).
Through the efforts primarily of physicians, the American Medical Association, and legislators, most abortions in the US had been outlawed by 1900 (Lewis, 2012). Illegal abortions were prevalent during this period although they decreased for a period of time when the Comstock law was enacted in 1873 banning birth control information and devices. It was through the efforts of Margaret Sanger known for representing women’s rights and eventual development of Planned Parenthood that the Comstock law was lifted in
Many of the arguments made by the pro-life team take a moral, ethical, or religious standpoint in their persuasion of others. In order for us to gain a more objective look at the debate with real-world pros and cons, the moral, ethical, and/or religious arguments will not be covered. Abortion has been a topic of controversy in America for almost two hundred years. The earliest known instance of conflict occurred in 1821 when Connecticut outlawed the selling of poisons used to induce abortion in women (Abortion ProCon.org). In 1845, New York began the trend of slapping legal consequences for women who have abortions.
English 1102 Why gay men and women should be allowed in the military Since the “Don’t ask, Don’t tell policy” came into place in 1993, more than 13,000 troop members have been discharged due to their sexual orientation (Shanker). This staggering statistic leaves many Americans wondering how the policy works and is it being used effectively? The United States Military’s “Don’t ask, Don’t tell” policy should be repealed because it is a hardship on American taxpayers, it would increase troop numbers, and increase America’s strength morally. The United States Military’s “Don’t ask, Don’t tell” policy was introduced in 1993 by former President Bill Clinton. While Clinton was campaigning for the Presidency, he had promised to allow all citizens regardless of sexual orientation to serve openly in the military (Shanker).