The doctor gives you the results and says that you are pregnant. ... I don't know how abstinence education is going to prevent someone from having sex. Sure, you have the knowledge, but you still have to choose to practice it or not. ... The fact that people are still scratching their heads over what to do about this is amazing to me because it is a huge issue that doesn't have just one answer. ... While teens should wait to have sex, the fact of the matter is that many of them don't. ...

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She was a little un-sure at first but he used some of the basic typical guy lines, "oh I love you so much and I just want to show you how much you mean to me," "if you loved me you would give me you"re virginity." ... Having a baby is a very stressful time for anyone and more so when you"re a teen. ... And teens are going to have sex regardless of how many laws are created, or rules and limitations parents set, and information they are given. There is no way to make every teen out there stop having sex, its virtually impossible but the number of teens having sex can be decreased as well as ...

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Also, many of the teenagers who do have an abortion many times come back pregnant again and have another abortion. ... There is obviously not a good relationship between the teenager and her parents because if there was the parents would talk to her about the risks of having sex and what can happen if she does have unprotected sex. ... I feel this way because when you have sex, you accept everything that comes with it. ... For some teens, abortion as a means of coping can become a stressor by Anne Speckhard This article reiterates my thoughts about how abortion is a wrong thing to do, ...

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No matter how old or how successful you are, most women can get pregnant. ... "Sex Sells", Brittney Spears said to one Miami Herald reporter, and so it does. ... "If their having sex, why shouldn't I?"... With everything now in our society based on sex, how can we stop this youthful revolution from taking place and how can we stop young girls from getting pregnant. ... What if you"re a college student and you become pregnant, should you throw your whole future away just because of one mistake? ...

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In what trimester does life begin? ... With such a vague definition of life then how can we say that abortion is wrong, and that it is murder? ... To solve such a controversial and complicated issue as abortion is to feed you to the lions. ... If children have the ability to reproduce starting at age eleven, then why do we begin to teach our children about abortion after they have already had sex-education? ... Why did I learn about sex after I began having feelings, and needs that I could not understand or even explain. ...

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But how can that be applied to contraceptives? ... This is asking all people who do not want children to abstain from sex forever. ... Asking people to never have sex is like asking people to stay locked in a bubble. ... The fetus does not have the right to live, it depends totally on the body of the mother for life and if the mother does not want to give her body she cannot be morally required to do so. ... How can we hold a woman responsible for bearing a child if she tried not to have it?...

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Teen Pregnancy: How does it affect society? ... You can sense the nervousness just by the looks on their faces. ... The main reason for teen pregnancy is early initiation of sex and having unprotected sex. ... Many teens have made the choice to abstain from sex until they are married. ... Three-quarters of teens use some method of contraception, which is usually a condom the first time they have sex. ...

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A surprise, oddball, how the heck did you think of that?... Which girl in this pageant do you dislike the most? ... Since the earliest reformers in the 1800s, and especially the female reformists in the 1960s, women have claimed equality among the sexes. ... How many have small breasts? How many are over the age of 35? ...

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How far would the slippery slope go and who's to say when and how it would stop. ... Characteristics such as chronic illnesses and disabilities do not resemble traits such as sex, sexual orientation, or race because the latter are not in themselves perceived as inimical to a rewarding life. ... I believe that everyone including unborn fetuses have the right to life no matter if they have a disability such as Down syndrome or if they do not. ... No matter if you are disabled or not you are still your own unique individual and that's what makes our world so diverse and how it is toda...

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Time magazine brought up the phrase "The Juno Effect" where young girls were saying how fun it would be to have a baby. ... The shows do not show every pregnant teenager and how they live their life. ... Many people were shocked and made a big deal out of it, but many also eager to see how the show would do and what people would think. ... Every episode shows something new or shocks you. ... These girls love their babies more than anything but do wish that they would have waited until they were stable in their lives to have a baby. ...

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In china there are many abortions that women are forced to do without their free will. ... According to a 1992 survey, the sex ratio of newborns was 118 males for every 100 females. ... If you are a migrant that is looking for work in Fijian Province they have to carry cards proving that the migrant workers have been sterilized after one child. ... This shows how unfair and cruel china's laws can be. ... And this is not how women in china should be treated. ...

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Thus, Thomson "is only arguing that having a right to life does not guarantee having either a right to be given the use of or a right to be allowed continued use of another person's body "even if one needs it for life itself- (Thomson 130). ... He was given the right to eat those chocolates all by himself, but his sister does not have the right to eat the chocolate as well. ... When you deprive some one of a right, you treat someone unjustly. ... Morally, it is indecent, cruel, and harsh to have an abortion if you were having unprotected sex for fun, but that does not justify a fetu...

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Most fathers do not have any say so on what the mother decides. ... You have to put yourself in her shoes or at least try to understand what she could have been going through at the time. If you can do that you will realize that she did not that big of a mistake. ... In many households sex is not talked about. ... Teens do not realize how their "friends" play the most part in the decision. ...

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Granted, it would be ideal if the girls thought of these consequences before having sex, but neglecting the possible consequences of one's actions should not have lead to irreversible less desirable outcomes. ... The humiliation a young girl feels when she is forced to tell her parents that not only has she had sex, but that she is in fact pregnant is more than enough to push a lot of them over the edge. ... According to the Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia, "Minors who do not involve their parents are disproportionately older and employed." ... That is what this bill does. ....

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When does human life begin? ... Does a foetus have the same right to life as an adult person? ... Warren says that no matter how many lives would be made out of us, we should not have to give up our freedom for others. ... However in cases of consensual sex the potential mother is in some way responsible for the foetus. ... If when at the stage of conception, we consist of the same "building blocks- as we do today, how can the embryo be considered as not being living? ...

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As you walk in the double doors, there is a hall way and pictures of Jesus Christ and the apostles. ... The Mormon church seems to have a lot in common with other churches beliefs of things they should do and things that shouldn't be done. ... The Mormons strongly believe that sex before marriage is wrong. ... They believe that the person has the right to decide whether they want children and how many children they want. ... The Mormons do have a baptism ceremony and so do many other religions, but the Mormons do it for a separate reason than I am accustomed to. ...

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On the other side of the coin the supporters of abortion can use many arguments which debate the characteristics of the fetus -such as its ability to feel pain or whether or not it is "alive---, as well it is debated that most women who actually do have abortions did use some form of birth control during sex --it merely didn't work ,and the reality becomes that if a person wants to have an abortion to begin with they do not want to have that child so they would suffer a hard life - there is also the situation of rape. ... Now under Canadian law as it stands fetuses...

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You were free to do what you want, when you wanted to do it. ... Oryx's mother sold her to a man when she was seven; he in turn would sell her into a world of sex slavery. ... Nor, did either of them take the time to realize if you find a way to stop aging, if you cure all diseases, there would no longer be a need for you. You will have either cured everyone, or in the process killed everyone trying to become the great redeemer and rendered yourself useless. ... Nothing he could do could change this reality. ...

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With the topic of abortion being a "hot-button" issue, its important to consider how different variables will affect a persons view. ... I will elaborate on the study findings in the Results section, and will document how these results strengthen my hypotheses in the Conclusion. ... For instance, same-sex marriage, a highly controvertible topic, has a larger group of supporters within the millennial and generation-x age groups when compared to the views of baby boomers and veterans (Desmond, 2012). ... I have stated a few interpretations as to why I believe this hypothesis. ... The data f...

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