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Low Birth Weight Cerebral Palsy
916 wordsThere are many things to expect when a couple has a child. When a couple conceives a child they should know how much commitment is involved. There are the early morning feeds and cleanings, which can frustrate new parents. A person gives up privileges and most of their freedom when the child is born. Also, one of the parents has to stay home or figure out some way to watch and care for their child during the day. The parents make a commitment to the child to support and love that child. A child ...
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Child Is Born Prenatal Testing
1,801 wordsIs it morally right to peer into a mothers womb and select a childs future according to how it is progressing or how healthy it is? Is it right to use the capabilities that science has uncovered to create our children? Or should those decisions and concerns be left for God? According to Kim Painter prenatal testing is about reassurance; couples expect to learn that their babies will be fine. But its also about avoiding the births of disabled children. Many people think that using prenatal geneti...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Central Nervous System
2,024 wordsNow of course with the holidays coming up everyone knows to drink and behave responsibly. Everyone including the young mothers who are carrying children. They know all about the physical and cognitive effects that a drink may have on their fetus. According to health surveys 19 percent of 4 million mothers used some form of alcohol in their prenatal phase, in 1992. And this number is continually increasing, making Fetal Alcohol Syndrome one of the leading causes of birth defects in the United Sta...
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1,595 wordsWhat can happen to a fetus when a pregnant women drinks heavily during her pregnancy? It can lead to permanent, irreversible and incurable effects that will bring a lifetime of pain for both the child and the family. These permanent and unchangeable effects arise from a fetus attaining fetal alcohol syndrome from its mother. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is a pattern of malformations and disabilities resulting from a pregnant woman drinking heavily during her pregnancy. FAS is unique in that effe...
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Blood Sugar Level Glucose Tolerance
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Genetic Engineering Pro Lifers
1,783 wordsDuring the last twenty-five years, abortion has been one of the most heated topics being debated in the United States and Canada. The only topics that equal the abortion debate are race and war. Abortion is a discussion of human interaction where ethics, emotions, and law come together. There are people that have different views of abortion but no matter what their view is they fall under a thin line. There is the pro-choice and the pro-life. These are the only two categories that peoples views ...
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National Cancer Institute Teenage Pregnancies
1,529 wordsThe Aftermath of an Abortion To have abortion or not is a very difficult choice to make. The final choice comes from religious and ethical beliefs. However, to have an abortion means to participate in a horrendous crime against humanity, God, and oneself. Abortion can also have deleterious effects on the mothers health and well being. Many of the couples, mainly the mothers, that have an abortion tend to go into a state of depression known as Post-abortion syndrome. Negative effects on the mothe...
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Human Rights Regarding Chinese Women
2,110 wordsEven since the dramatic post- 1949 changes in China regarding the role of women, China has remained paternalistic in it's attitudes and social reality. Like many other states, China inescapably has been deeply involved in human rights politics at the international level in recent decades. During this period of time, the Chinese government has been increasingly active in participating in the international human rights regime. China has so far joined seventeen human rights conventions, the U. N. H...
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One Child Policy Hundred And Fifty
1,231 wordsIf the United States government implemented a law that told couples they could only have one child, how soon would a protest be in place? The answer is immediately, because it is not the governments place to restrict the reproductive rights of any human being. However, this atrocity is taking place in China at this very moment. This law is known as the one-child law. This policy was introduced by Chairman Mao to help ensure that the flood prone, famine-ridden China could feed its people by reduc...
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Roman Catholic Sexually Active
1,410 wordsAbortion is a way to end pregnancy. Sometimes, an embryo or fetus stops developing and the body expels it. This is called spontaneous abortion or "miscarriage. " A woman can also choose to end a pregnancy. This is called induced abortion. There are two ways it can be done X surgical and medical. Who chooses abortion? The chances are high that a woman will have more than one unplanned pregnancy in the course of her lifetime. Nearly half of all women will have an abortion by the time they are 45 y...
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Pregnant Women Vitamin C
1,364 wordsIt is symbolic that since the ancient times women kept the knowledge about various herbs and their effect on human body. This information was passed from one generation to another, later, the recipes have been written down. In the Middle Ages, people believed in the power of herbs and treated all their diseases using herbal products. There was a special group of herbs to be used during pregnancy. For example, white water-lilies were widely used to make the delivery less painful. Nowadays, homeop...
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Sexually Transmitted Pregnant Women
1,105 wordsby Ashley Christensen Ms. Robinson Period Chlamydia Chlamydia by Ashley ChristenseMs. Robinson Period 3 / Sociology 2 / 29 / 2000 Introduction Today, Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs), are among the most common causes of illness in the United States. People in their teens and twenties are most affected by STD? s, with over 6 million new cases each year, and adults between the ages of 13 and 19 are at the most risk for infection. Chlamydia is the most common bacterial sexually transmitted dise...
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Neural Tube Defects Children With Down Syndrome
2,759 wordsDowns syndrome is a genetic condition involving an extra chromosome, this change occurs around the time of conception. A person with Downs syndrome has forty-seven chromosomes instead of the usual forty-six. A relatively common genetic disorder, Downs strikes 1 out of 600 babies. In 95 percent of all cases, the disorder originates with the egg, not the sperm, and the only known risk factor is advanced maternal age-at age 35, a woman has 1 chance in 117 of having a baby with Downs; at 40, her odd...
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Smoking During Pregnancy Low Birth Weight
1,185 wordsWomen Smoking During Pregnancy Effects On The Women Smoking During Pregnancy Effects On The Children They Carry Women Smoking During Pregnancy Effects on the Children They Carry: There are many effects that cigarette smoking by pregnant women have on their fetuses. The relationship between maternal smoking and fetal development shows that smoking can induce spontaneous abortion, affect birth weight, and bring about fetal malformations. The long-term effects of smoking while pregnant on the offsp...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Urinary Tract
1,742 wordsMany pregnant women are not aware of the complications that are involved with pregnancy. The greater majority of young women see pregnancy as a way of bringing a life into the world but do not use precaution in their dietary habits to prevent the destruction or inhibition of such a life. Most pregnant women continue on their drinking and drug abuse binge right throughout their pregnancy. They do not think ahead to the inexplicable damage that it could do to their fetus. What they do not know is ...
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Unborn Child Nervous System
343 wordsSynopsis # 1 BIO 131 A. Summary: The Food and Drug Administration is announcing to pregnant women that eating certain kinds of fish may be harmful to their unborn child. These fish include shark, swordfish, king mackerel and tile fish. These fish contain high levels of a form of mercury called methyl mercury. Methyl mercury can damage an unborn babys nervous system. The FDA suggests that any pregnant woman, or women of childbearing age, nursing mothers, and young children stay away from these fi...
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Long Term Effects Unit Cohesion
1,386 wordsAs the United States military moves towards a more bi-gender dependant force, it will be necessary for leaders and managers to combat the growing increasing of junior enlisted pregnancies. Through leadership skills, communication, and understanding the causes of the problems, leaders will be able to lower the rate of pregnancy, henceforth, increasing fleet readiness. To even consider any type of resolution or solution to the problem of pregnancy amongst junior enlisted members, we must first ana...
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Effects Of Cannabis Effects Of Marijuana
1,867 wordsHello my name is China Give, an I? m going to tell you about the drug commonly known as Marijuana. The scientific name being? Cannabis Sativa. ? Cannabis is the short name for the hemp plant. It is thought to have originated in Asia an then reached Europe more than a thousand years ago. It now thrives in most any climate. Spreading like milkweed or thistle, crowding out neighboring grasses an reaching heights of 3 to 20 feet at maturity. Marijuana has been cultivated for the last 5, 000 years; i...
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Smoking During Pregnancy Developmental Psychology
1,087 wordsSUBSTANCE USES AND PREGNANCY THE MULTIPLE WAYS OF DISSEMINATING INFORMATION January 1989 the results of a study conducted by Ann Pytkowicz Streissguth were published in the Journal of Developmental Psychology. The study investigated the relationship of maternal use of drugs, alcohol and / or cigarettes during pregnancy on the IQ of her child at the age of four years. Newsweek and Scientific News also print articles later that year reporting the effects of maternal use of alcohol and drugs on the...
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Child Abuse Law Enforcement
554 wordsBad Choices During Pregnancy An unwritten don t ask, don t tell policy {in regards to pregnant women and what they put into their bodies}was once the rule and not the exception in our society. What this means is simple: doctors delivered infants without questioning the behavior of the mother. If the infant was born defective in some way, the mother paid. The infant paid. Society paid. After all, if the mother could not afford to provide all the care the infant needed because of special costs rel...
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