... not treated differently. This arguement does not make sense because it is interesting to see how an equivalent professional group caring for male does not exist. Is it because male don't need any gender related medical treatment and its only womens body that can be controlled. When we look at any Obstetric and Gynecology text book we can clearly see that the role ... Reproduction (1992), the author Emily Martin shows that in describing various physiological processes, medical science assumes production , i.e., baby making and child rearing as the normal state of the female body. Although...

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... . The nurse should assess who the decision maker will be so that informed consent can be directed to the right person. Even in emergency situations, it is best to involve male family members because the woman will be placed in an awkward situation if she makes a decision alone. Modesty is very important to the Arab Muslim client, especially for females. The ... intention of Muslim dress is to conceal the body identity (Zaidi, 1994). Vaginal examinations can cause great anxiety. It is common for traditional Arab women to expect to see female providers (Kulwicki, Miller & Schim, 2000). If ...

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... market today, and are safe and effective when used properly. There are two main kinds of condoms, male and female. As the most popular of the two, male condoms are made of latex, plastic, or natural membranes. They look like long, thin, deflated balloons. Male condoms stop body fluids from mixing during intercourse, and when used correctly are about 97% effective. Condoms are generally ... rate. Other consumers, however, have complained that the condom is difficult to insert, harder to find because not as many stores carry female condoms, and is more expensive than its male counterpart....

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... ", I will begin with the process of conception, prenatal development, and finally birth. To begin with, as a human being it takes a male and female for conception to take place. First, a male and a female must meet in society, usually start a relationship, and during the process they have sexual intercourse for conception to take place ... . A male releases the sperm and a female releases the egg during intercourse. There are other artificial methods of conception as well. For example in ... "period of the embryo" and start at the third week after conception and finishes at the end of the...

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... National Abortion Right Act League argues that without legal abortion women would be denied their constitutional right of privacy and liberty. The women's right to her own body subordinates those of the fetus and the U.S. Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade argued that the women's "right to privacy" overruled the fetus's right to ... . Women are in control of their own bodies and lives. Legislators have no right to interfere. The practical assertion that since pregnancy involves a women's body, the choice of continuing that pregnancy must be hers alone. However, abortion is considered murder by...

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... Surprisingly, another key point with having abortions, it can damage a woman mentally by attempting suicide or depression and physically by damaging the woman's body. A pro- abortion doctor explained how mostly all his patients struggle with emotional implications after having the abortion. "The doctor acknowledged that abortion ... ;destroys a pregnancy, she is destroying herself. There is no way it can be innocuous"" (Reltso). Women need to take consideration of their body because that's the most important thing. Illegal or legal, abortions will never be safe, that can damage a woman ...

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... conception. Bonnie Steinbock, an author who considers herself an expert on fetuses and their legal rights, says, "Conception is the joining of the male and female sex cells which have twenty-three chromosomes each." The process of conception takes twelve hours, at which time the egg is completely fertilized ... conception. Being alive means that an object grows, develops, and matures. A zygote, from the time of conception grows, develops parts of its body, and replaces its own dying cells. The heart of the zygote begins beating just eighteen days after conception (198 Steinbock). This is...

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... people believe infertility is only a women's issue but the fact of the matter is that just about half of all infertility reports are due to male conditions. Problems with sperm, whether it involves their mobility (abnormal shape or structure that interfere with the sperms ability to get to the egg) ... an egg each month like she's suppose to, a women can accomplish this in several different ways, by recording the changes in her morning body temperature(basal body temperature), by recording the changes in the texture of her vaginal discharge, and lastly by using a home ovulation test kit...

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... to protect them selves in the future. How is a parent at home going to be able to teach their children about STD's, AIDS, and the human body without being a professional teacher? When teaching a teenager about such things as AIDS and sex, the person needs to have good knowledge that is very thorough ... different rooms. The girls and I learned about how are bodies were going to go through some changes. We also learned how boys and girls are very different body wise. I feel that all of my health classes benefited to my knowledge of health education. The classes I took taught sex educatio...

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... countries, caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis. Often producing no symptoms, it can cause infertility, chronic pain, or a tubal pregnancy if left untreated. 5. Circumcision- removal of male's foreskin: the removal of all or part of the foreskin from the penis. Removal of clitoris or its prepuce: the cutting away of the skin (prepuce) covering the clitoris ... of womb interior: use of a fiber-optic endoscope to study the womb lining, take biopsy samples, and carry out local treatment. 18. Impotence- sexual inability: the inability of a male to perform sexual intercourse, usuall...

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... Birth Control has been a concern for humans for thousands of years. The first contraception devices were mechanical barriers in the vagina that prevented the male sperm from fertilizing the female egg. Other methods of birth control that were used in the vagina were sea sponges, mixtures of crocodile dung and ... off the Fallopian tubes. The tubes that carry the egg from the ovary to the uterus. The operation is called a tubal ligation. In the male, sterilization is accomplished by severing the two vas deferens. The tubes that carry sperm from the testes to the penis. This procedure is ca...

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... Birth Control has been a concern for humans for thousands of years. The first contraception devices were mechanical barriers in the vagina that prevented the male sperm from fertilizing the female egg. Other methods of birth control that were used in the vagina were sea sponges, mixtures of crocodile dung and ... off the Fallopian tubes. The tubes that carry the egg from the ovary to the uterus. The operation is called a tubal ligation. In the male, sterilization is accomplished by severing the two vas deferens. The tubes that carry sperm from the testes to the penis. This procedure is ca...

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... the pro-choice supporters see individual choice as central to the debate: If a woman cannot choose to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, a condition which affects her body and possibly her entire life, then she has lost one of her most basic human rights. These proponents of abortion believe that while a fetus is ... of pregnancies that resulted in abortion were the result of free choice. The assumption is that a woman does not have control over her own body until after a male partner is finished with it. Only then does she here talk of "rights."" The term "pro-choice- evokes their sense ...

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... religious people can disagree on abortion. One ground for going against religion as an argument against abortion is the fact that the Church is dominated by male influence (bender & Leone, 101). Maguire wants to know how and why men have the authority to dictate what women decide to do with their ... unborn child at will (Saarni, 104). Further claims have stated that the pro-choice argument is embedded in a larger issue which the dominant male-oriented society wants to avoid, that being feminism (Wennberg, 68). This statement regards abortion as a social issue which opens the doors for w...

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... on its own; however, the fertilized egg has a distinctive DNA. "About the Unborn Child" proves that human life begins at the moment that the male sperm becomes one with the female ovum. The new cell, called the zygote, has its own human DNA, which makes the little fetus a person. According to ... the fetus has a life even at the earlier stages of development. These biological facts alone prove that the fetus feels the excruciating pain when its body gets ripped apart in pieces until it dies. The process of second trimester abortion begins the night before by inserting a laminarium to ...

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... to feel the baby move and shares a physical experience as the baby is nurtured from within. She and the infant share significant changes from body size to hormone levels. Through this shared experience, a natural attachment with the baby grows before the baby is born. Fathers do not actually ... fatherhood, they thereby create the potential for more effective support for expectant parents. Friedewald and Newing (2006) report provides testimonials of an all-male discussion forum called "Father-Time: Welcome to the rest of your life". The program is aimed at promoting further inclusion wit...

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... referred to as a "fertilized ovum." If it has two X chromosomes, then the zygote is a female; if it has an X and Y, it is male. This is generally regarded as the start of pregnancy within the pro-life movement. Physicians and the pro-choice movement regard the start of pregnancy when the ... accuracy is almost impossible to evaluate. Pain in an adult, child, newborn or late-term fetus originates as an electrical signal in some of the body's pain receptors. This signal is sent via nerve pathways to the spinal column, then to the thalamus - an egg-shaped structure within the brain ... one ...

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... is taken into consideration, with males as being the norm, I am instantly un-normal. I have to go to a "special" doctor to deal with my "special" body parts. I find this kinda cool. I get to have a doctor that specializes in something that only I as a female am concerned with. After having the discussion ... in class about this, I felt pretty good about being a female. Just because I am different doesn't mean that I am abnormal or wrong in body composure. I now feel that I am just special, instead of weird. Although, there are studies that show that we have more medical problems with men...

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... is taken into consideration, with males as being the norm, I am instantly un-normal. I have to go to a "special" doctor to deal with my "special" body parts. I find this kinda cool. I get to have a doctor that specializes in something that only I as a female am concerned with. After having the discussion ... in class about this, I felt pretty good about being a female. Just because I am different doesn't mean that I am abnormal or wrong in body composure. I now feel that I am just special, instead of weird. Although, there are studies that show that we have more medical problems with men...

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... as courageous as either one," said Gloria Steinem (Word np). This statement is so true. Pregnancy and childbirth are very demanding processes of the human body. To carry a little human being around in one's abdomen for nine months, then push it out of a ten-centimeter hole is an amazing feat ... to thicken, and an egg is released from one of her ovaries. The egg falls into the fallopian tube, where it meets the sperm of a male. Three hundred million sperm can enter the vagina but only one enters the egg (Nash np). This is called fertilization. The fertilized egg is now ... month, along ...

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... is pushed through the oviducts towards the uterus. While the ovule is pushed through the oviduct, it becomes available for fertilization, the union of the male sex cell and the female sex cell. As millions of sperm enters the vagina, the race of their life begins where each sperm race each other ... union of two cells these begin to form different cells, some are programmed to be muscle cells, brain cells, bones, skin and other parts of the body. As a product of this specialization of cells, the essential units are formed out of which tissues and organs will develop. When all the speciali...

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... infection, failure to develop, or the growth period, are more vulnerable to SIDS (Understanding the Mystery of SIDS). Male babies are more susceptible to any diseases than are females, so therefore they are more susceptible to SIDS as well (Male Susceptibility to SIDS). The male-to-female ratio of SIDS is 60-to-40 percent (Understanding the Mystery of SIDS). Research shows that ... . While researchers are still unsure about the causes of SIDS, there is no way to predict or prevent it. Studies exploring child development, nervous system, brain, sleep and breathing patterns, body chemical ...

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... Life decision and then into the Pro- Choice alternative . Human life begins at conception. In other words, the unborn begins "life- as soon as the male's sperm fertilizes the female's egg. Therefore, conducting an abortion, would be the murder of that person because the fetus is in no real sense "part ... there's a miniature person in that womb. Therefore, the right of the unborn to live supersedes any right of a woman to "control her own body."( Westchester Coalition for Legal Abortion, Inc, http://www.wcla.org/articles/procon.html) Abortion should not be legal in the U.S. for right to ...

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... a fetus. But even these suggest that a fetus carried less value than human life. Here are samples of passages that I have found that possibly address this subject: Genesis 2:7 God made Adam's body out of the dust of the earth. Later, the "man became a living soul" only after God "breathed into his nostrils the breath of life." This would imply that Adam's personhood ... way exactly defined in Hebrew as creatures that breathe." Leviticus 27:6 And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then Thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver and for the female ten shek...

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... year of regular, unprotected sexual intercourse-, as defined by Kara Williams (9). Infertility can be caused by a number of things: irregular ovulation, tubal blockages, endometriosis, drug use, stress, inappropriate body weight, low sperm count or motility, damage by infections, and blocked vas deferens. In addition, about 15% of couples have unexplained infertility, in which no cause can be found ( ... than IVF, about 35%, mainly because it eliminates the most difficult part of IVF, the embryo transport (Rosenthal 216). GIFT is primarily used for endometriosis, unexplained infertility, ...

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