An on going debate has continued regarding the notification of parents on abortion. ... Information must be obtained on the psychological effects of abortion on teenage mothers before any federal law goes into existence on teen abortions. ... In the argument that the teenager should have to tell the parents because she will receive good and informative advice, support, and understanding I think is not true because if the parents were like that from the beginning and offered that kind of love, the teenager would have no need to go out and look for some other sort of forced love (sex). ...

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Teenagers, male and female alike go through hormones changes that drive them toward sexual thoughts and actions. ... Look at the Catholics; they have the bible yet their hypocrisy is seen every Saturday when they go to bars and then on Sunday they go pray on a pew. ... A teenager's brain is not yet completely formed and matured. ... I realized that this is the exact feeling that every teenager doesn't want to feel, and that is why the majority of teens find it too hard to go to their parents involving things like this. Which is why I strongly believe that schools should step in, so t...

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The United States" teenage birthrate exceeds that of most other industrialized nations, even though American teenagers are no more sexually active than teenagers in Canada or Europe (Gormly, 1997). ... African-American and Hispanic teenagers are twice as likely to give birth as are white teenagers. ... Babies born to teenagers are often too small and too soon. ... Some research indicates that "the percentage of teenage birthrates has declined simply because fewer teenagers are having sexual intercourse and more teenagers are using contraceptives (Johnson, 1995)." ... The outcome of teena...

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I feel that unintended pregnancy, especially among teenagers, is the result of not being able to obtain birth control, being too afraid to buy some, or feeling that no one else uses it. Most of these oblivious teenagers will still have sex whether a form of birth control is used or not so I believe that there should be more places for sexually active teenagers to go to obtain birth control or information about it. Also, organizations, such as Real Life Choices, should be spread more among the pre-teenagers and teenagers in schools. These organizations teach about saving sex until marriage and ...

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Pro-choice think that if abortion is outlawed then women will be forced to go back to back-alley abortion clinics. ... Each year, one million teenagers become pregnant and 85% are unintended. ... The argument goes that teenagers have trouble confronting the reality of their problem and so fail to seek an earlier, "safer" abortion. ... Certainly it is not uncommon for teenage mothers to go through short periods of denial about a pregnancy. In every case where a teenager had a late term abortion, not one stated that she didn't realize or couldn't accept that she was pregnant. ...

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Some abortion methods cause serious complications in women but more so in teenagers. ... A teenager is not aware of all the possible long-term complications that can result from an abortion. ... Most teenagers, but not all are unable to make proper decisions concerning their health. Adolescent teenagers are not mature enough to take full responsibility for their actions. ... With a teenage abortion being illegal without parental consent in most states, teenagers will go to an illegal clinic for the procedure. ...

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Some abortion methods cause serious complications in women but more so in teenagers. ... A teenager is not aware of all the possible long-term complications that can result from an abortion. ... Most teenagers, but not all are unable to make proper decisions concerning their health. Adolescent teenagers are not mature enough to take full responsibility for their actions. ... With a teenage abortion being illegal without parental consent in most states, teenagers will go to an illegal clinic for the procedure. ...

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When it was said that MTV would air 16 & Pregnant in 2009 the article "MTV Reaches Out to Teens to Prevent Teen Pregnancy" said that the show was going to be the real life The Secret Life of The American Teenager. ... The shows do not show every pregnant teenager and how they live their life. ... To also support this there was a study of how the show impacted teenagers. ... Being a teenage girl myself I would never want to go through what the girls on these shows go through. ... They started off as normal teenagers just like most of us who got their selves into a situation that was ...

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Thus, as you can see most of these teenagers' parents are uneducated about the fact that their teenagers can go into any abortion clinic and get an abortion as much times as they want. Some of the reasons these teenagers commit these actions is because they desire attention and want to be noticed or they believe they can become famous just like the girl's from "16 and pregnant". ... Thus, meaning that where ever these victims of bullying go, the harassments and threats will go on. ... Do ever notice how fast time comes and goes? ... It's amazing how all our time spe...

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It can be unsafe for young teenagers to go through with pregnancy, they can die because their bodies aren't mature enough. Many teenagers cannot provide the right conditions for raising a child for they are still children themselves. ... The pro-lifer would say that the teenager could give the baby up for adoption and save a life. ...

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In the case of teenagers, abortion is extremely difficult to obtain on demand. ... In some states, there are laws that say a minor must have permission of at least one parent, sometimes both parents, to go through with the abortion. ... For example, if a young woman gets pregnant and feels that she cannot tell her parents, she must go through a "judicial bypass" to override the consent of her parents, and have the court decide if she is mature enough to make her own decision. Most teenagers don't have the time or means to get to a court hearing or have the emotional strength to get throu...

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Problems Today teenagers are getting mixed messages from parents, peers, and the media. ... Abortion is being used as a method of birth control, which was proved in a study done by the Lancet magazine February 1995, pg. 300 that 245 of teenagers aged seventeen to nineteen have undergone induced abortions. ... Pro-Life movement will win, because when you hold up a picture of a six month old fetus being stabbed in the neck and all you say is " choice, choice, choice" you are going to loose. ...

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About once a day, somewhere in the US, something goes wrong and an abortion results in a live baby (Melville 5). ... Abortion is wrong because it deprives the baby of rights and happiness because of the suffering it must go through during the abortion (Factbot). ... The number of teen abortions has doubled from 19.9 per thousand teenagers in 1972 to 43.8 per thousand teenagers in 1990 while the number of teen births has increased from 22.8 to 42.5 per thousand. ...

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She had no choice but to go to her mother about it. Her mother was disappointed in her and explained to her this was going to be a burden on the family because obviously the daughter cant afford a baby and now the mom is going to have to help her and she cant afford this. ... It is considered a social problem because, when teenagers are having babies, it affects not only themselves but society as a whole. ... Some teenagers may be so overwhelmed by having a baby in their lives that they now need to care & attend to 24/7. ... Tax-payers are affected if the teen mother needs to go on welfare...

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This indicates that it should ultimately be their decision whether to go through with the pregnancy or to terminate it. ... One thing they do not consider is how the life of a teenager may be ruined if they are not given the option of abortion. ... Warren believes that a person must have at least a few of these characteristics to be considered a person and she goes on to add that a fetus does not contain any of the elements. ... Most all religious people are against abortion because they believe that abortion is eliminating life, some even go to great extremities to consider it murder. ...

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Not only this but mothers also go through extreme judgement. ... She must have been in abject agony, terrified, knowing that she was going to die, and that she would never see her beloved daughters again. ... Women are willing to commit a crime and go to jail just to have one. ... By teaching teenagers about sex education and contraceptives, we can reduce the amount of unwanted pregnancies. ...

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Just as an adolescent develops into a teenager and then an adult, an infant develops from the unborn child. ... How is a woman independent if she must go out and have sexual relations with a man? Or if she becomes pregnant and must go to a doctor and have the unborn baby aborted? ...

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The idea of notifying parents in advance when any of discussion goes on with regard to their children health and welfare and that includes abortion. ... There is evidence that teenagers who do no involve their parents [in deciding about abortion] believe that involving their parents would not be their own best interests or try to protect their parents. ...

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ABORTION Abortion is the termination of pregnancy before the fetus is capable of independent life, can either be spontaneous or induced. It is the knowing destruction of the life of an unborn child. By aborting these unborn infants, humans are hurting themselves; they are not allowing themselves...

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I met with Napper Tandy, and he took me by the hand, And he said, "How's poor ould Ireland, and how does she stand?- She's the most disthressful country that iver yet was seen, For they're hangin' men an' women for the wearin' o' the Green. (The Wearin' o' The Green, 1795 ballad) Good mornin...

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Women with access to this information tend to have fewer children and are more comfortable with what goes on in their lives. ... Due to them learning it at a younger age, it is proven that they delay sexual intercourse until a later age; when compared to teenagers in English speaking countries. ... The government wanted women to go for five children and if the family had enough money the women could stay at home and raise the children. ...

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