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- 271: Women Rights
- ... to vote. The vote was finally won in 1920, but this was not the end. Suffragists became active in fighting for the rights for protection from abuse in work (1919), Equal Rights Ammendment (1923), and abortion. The birth control movement was fought for some time and denied in 1936. Birth control became legal in 1965. The second wave for this era started mainly in the sixties. In 1964 the Civil Rights ...
- 272: Euthanasia
- ... we have the negative obligation not to destroy or injure human life directly, especially the life of the innocent and invulnerable. It has been reasoned that the protection of innocent life- and therefore, opposition to abortion, murder, suicide, and euthanasia- pertains to the common good of society. Among the potential effects of a legalized practice of euthanasia are the following: "Reduced pressure to improve curative or symptomatic treatment". If euthanasia had ...
- 273: Legalizing Physician Assisted Suicide
- ... decision to die would be at the patient’s request. Religious organizations and opinions would be respected by their non-involvement in active euthanasia. The choice could be compared to other personal issues such as abortion, marriage or divorce, and sexual behavior. Proper controls and accountability through the legal system could prevent the slippery slope argument of active euthanasia leading to greater social ills. We already allow patients to refuse medical ...
- 274: Euthanasia Is Not The Answer
- ... life and the precepts just mentioned were and ineffect, recognized by and incorporated into our Anglo-Saxon common law tradition. Consequently, it has been reasoned that the protection of innocent life and therefore, opposition to abortion, murder, suicide, and Euthanasia pertains to the common good of society. I think the whole debate regarding Euthanasia is really the inadequacy of palliative care in this country. The majority of our healthcare providers lack ...
- 275: Nuclear Warfare
- ... hospitals must be made available for the diagnosis and treatment of the victims. Even those who sustained lower doses of radiation must be monitored. Pregnant women must be monitored for both their incidence of spontaneous abortion [mis-carriage] as well as congenial defects in their offspring. Children must be monitored for possible future thyroid tumors as a result of the high radiation doses that they have sustained. Future generations must be ...
- 276: AIDS: Risk Factors / Modes of Transmission / W. Africa
- ... to AIDS (Stine, 360). “AIDS is the leading cause of deaths among adult men and the second leading cause of deaths among adult women in Africa” (Bethel, 135). The first for women is pregnancy and abortion related. “It is extremely difficult to judge the exact extent of AIDS in Africa, either geographically or in the population” so rather than focusing on Western Africa alone, it is most feasible to acknowledge modes ...
- 277: Side Effects of Carl Djerassi and Syntex's Oral Contraceptive
- ... and altering the natural hormone Progesterone into a superpotent, highly effective oral progestational hormone called "norethindrone". Admittedly, the dynamics and importance of this find were astounding, since before this the only means of contraception was abortion, and even that was not legalized at the time. The race to produce this synthetic agent was highly competitive, being sought after by many pharmaceuticals throughout the world, and for a small fledgling company in ...
- 278: Reproductive Technologies
- ... womb. This also can create multiple births because of the high number eggs that must be used in order to up the potential of “making a baby”. Many of these couples have options of selected abortion to limit the risk to mother and child. These issues have many feminists and doctors having heated arguments over whether or not to abolish, regulate or just let the infertility drugs go on there course ...
- 279: The Female Body
- ... one another. The vagina stretches considerably during copulation & childbirth, but its lateral distension by the ischial spines & the sacrospinous ligaments. The uterus tilts away from the vagina. Hence, attempts by untrained persons to induce an abortion by entering the uterus with a surgical instrument may result in puncturing of the posterior wall of the vagina, followed by hemorrhage & - if the instrument is unsterile - subsequent peritonitis. The External Genitalia The external genitalia ...
- 280: Economic Comparsion
- ... ants are in the sugar The muscles atrophied We're on the other side the screen is us and we're TV Spread me open, sticking to my pointy ribs Are all your infants in abortion cribs I was born into this Everything turns to shit The boy that you loved Is the man that you fear Pray until you're number Asleep from all your pain Your apple has been ...
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