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Birth Control Pills England Journal Of Medicine
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1,766 wordsThe year is 2000. The War on Drugs is a lost cause. The United States has spent hundreds of billions of dollars and lost thousands of lives. The result is any adult or child with a couple measly dollars can purchase any existing illegal drug almost anywhere in the country (Greer 6 / 24 / 98). The emergence of a new designer drug (a combination of two existing drugs) ecstasy, which is the most common street term for the illicit drug MDMA (+/- 3, 4 Methylenedioxymethamphetamine), has brought a fat...
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903 wordsThursday, September 28, 2000, the Federal Drug and Food Administration approved the use of mifepristone, the abortion pill known as RU- 486. This pill makes it dramatically easier for a woman to have an abortion. If pregnancy is detected within seven weeks of conception, this simple pill can abort the baby, making it unnecessary to go through with abortion surgery. I believe that the Fda's approval of RU- 486 was wrong and the pill should be banned. This pill is one of the worst things to come o...
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575 wordsD. A. S Murder, death, suffering. All these horrific terms are related to an extremely important and devastating issue. Doctor assisted suicide is a very important subject that many people know little about. We need to finally shut this murdering out of Oregon for good. There are two sides concerning doctor assisted suicide. Those who oppose of measure 51, which would allow euthanasia, and those who are in favor of shutting it out. The people who are in favor of euthanasia, must have no sympathy...
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1,350 wordsCeleste Yarbrough English 1100 12: 00 ARW 6 December 2000 Problems with the Media There has been an ongoing dispute concerning the medias perception of how people are supposed to look. It seems that every year, the expectations of looking thin becomes harder and harder to meet. I know this from a personal experience of my own. A few years ago, I would look in magazines and see girls wearing size one or size two clothes. By look at this at least once every month, I started to feel that I was inad...
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