Every year, more than 900,000 teenagers are pregnant. ... Many of these teenagers actually happen to come from either an offensive, dysfunctional or a single mother or father families. ... Since, around 50% of those pregnancies turn into abortions, teenagers running away, suicide, we can all see the amount of damage it would do. ... If we simply implement to our teenagers the idea that anything can be avoided, then might as well give everybody guns" (134). ... Some parents and guardians want to stay on the safe side and avoid any complications in the future as far as pregnancies go. ...

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Many of the mothers that have an abortion tend to go into a state of depression known as Post-Abortion Syndrome. ... The teenager usually focuses on removing the burden, the unborn child, from the teenager's life that will keep her from achieving her goals, such as going to college. In 1989 teenagers had the highest abortion ratio at 886 abortions per 1,000 live births.... The self-devaluation can stem from teenagers feeling incompetent, and can lead to periods of depression. Teenagers are also more susceptible to periods of depression due to their immaturity, their lack of experience of ...

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The media does not generally emphasize the responsibilities and risks of sex and I believe that it plays a major role in the high rates of pregnancy among teenagers in the United States today. ... Having a baby as a teenager makes it much harder for a them to reach their goals in life, such as finishing high school, going on to college, getting a good job, or getting married when they grow up, and it also poses additional challenges to the child as well. ... Being a teenager myself, I have seen 2 friends of mine become a teen mother and father. ... And if something goes wrong, there is the P...

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I want to talk about abortion, abortion is an option that I am on favor because of several reasons some of them are unwanted kid, economical problems, and a teenager that can loose a life for that child. ... Imagine this couple that can barely feed themselves how are they going to maintain a child when a kid needs four main needs: food, roof, a good education, and doctor. These needs are expensive and need to be good ones cause a bad feeding equals to sickness and that equals doctor and medicines something that if is not good your not going to cure, and the roof and the education is something...

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ABORTION Abortion is an issue that has been, and is going to be controversial for years to come. ... The issue spreads further than just teenagers who don't want to be parents, it goes to families participating in incest, a high number didn't have a choice in the act of sex, who are rape victims and women with health problems. ... Abortion is operated on teenagers and adults who can't handle the pressure of being responsible parents, and also by a number of other people whose reasons range from rape to incest to health concerns. ... The process in which the women's body ...

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We all love our social life as teenagers, right? ... Teen parents say that it is really hard to do when you are a teenager. ... It is harder now that your a parent in your teens because you can't just go to work all day and make some good money, you also have to go to school. ... And other teens drop out because of the rumors and gossiping that goes on during school. ... Increase in responsibilities, ways to prevent pregnancy, social life, finances, and schooling are just the basics to consider before having a child as a teenager. ...

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I do not believe that teenagers can be parents because they lack sufficient responsibility, and financial stability. Teenagers are, for the most part, self-centered and it maybe hard for them to shift their attention to another individual on a twenty-four hour basis. ... Though my views did not agree with what was going on around me, I had to hold my personal believes to myself in order not to hurt my cousin. ...

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A study undertaken on a group of Australian women found that there was a positive correlation of abortion rates in teenagers and high grades, in most or all of their subjects (Evans 2004). ... Evans found that teenagers who had left school before falling pregnant were more inclined to carry out the pregnancy than those who chose to abort. ... Younger women nowadays are more predisposed to pursue further education, but in society there is a smaller cohort of women that go against the social norm by favoring traditional gender roles and choosing motherhood. ...

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High rates of teen pregnancy burden us all: teenagers, their children, and the society at large. ... Only one in ten shows that contain sexual content included a reference to safer sex or to the possible risks and responsibilities that go along with having sex. ... Results of this study revealed that teenagers in the United States absorb sex education messages from television programs, and visually examining and discussing television programs with an adult reinforces the sex education messages (Alters). ... Douglas Kirby, in "Emerging Answers: Research Findings on Programs to Reduce Teen P...

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Most of them are not women of course, they are teenagers. Teenagers that get pregnant while in school tend to get more abortions. ... There are also many teenagers that say that they do not have the money or cannot afford to bring a child into the world. ... Nowadays there are many things out in the market that are used to prevent pregnancies, if you want to go out and have fun, you can always do things responsibly. ...

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Some researchers feel that teenagers consider having a baby with the desire to become welfare dependent. ... In addition, poor teenagers are more sexually experienced than those of higher incomes, yet they use contraception less frequently and less successfully, and therefore they have higher rates of pregnancy. ... It is obvious that teen pregnancy is not going away. ...

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Having abortions legal causes many people , especially teenagers to be irresponsible , because they take for granted that there's a way out . Every human being deserves the right to live and should not be taken for granted .Don't abortion and murder go hand in hand? ...

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Most US citizens today believe that abortion is the wrong way to go, the unborn fetus has no chance at life. ... Abortions are usually wanted by the teenagers in our society, whether they had made a mistaken and forgot to wear a condom or just chose not to wear one. This article is stating that our government is going to start testing the mothers who are caring a child. ... As the years go by we will begin to see many more changes in rights of people who are out to help you. ...

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Take this example for instance, think of the advantages of sex just being for fun and love, then, when ready, going to Wal-Mart to get a new baby for $998.99. 57% of all U.S. pregnancies are unwanted or unplanned. About one-third of all U.S. babies are born out of wedlock. 80% or teenaged mothers are unwed, didn't want or plan their pregnancy, and 80% of them go on welfare(Greenblatt, pg. 208). European teenagers have just as much sex as we do but their pregnancy rate is 2 to 6 times lower than ours. ... There is no better way for teenagers to protect themselves from all of the dange...

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Many studies demonstrate that women that go through this trauma experience depression, stress, low self-esteem, suicidal feelings and substance abuse. ... Seven hundred previously adopted teenagers had interviews recently and the myths were proven untrue. ...

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To understand my argument on this very sensitive and controversial matter, we must go back to the facts and where it all began. ... Some teenagers and woman abuse abortion as a form of birth control. ...

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Abortion What would you do if you found out right now that you were going to be a parent? ... We're going to explore the latter choice. ... However that's not all, who is to say exactly how the woman is going to deal with the emotional trauma of killing a possible human being? ... Do you honestly think that most teenagers are emotionally equipped to handle a son or daughter, much less financially? They are still kids themselves, going to school and starting their life. ...

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For that, when I was younger I have been involved in going to Mainland China to distribute out clothing and other materials that can be afforded by my volunteer group from the temple to the poor. Now that I am in Canada, I am also trying to make a difference in someone's life by participating in activities within the temple and volunteer myself out once I have time and to go to the hospital to entertain some seniors or to help out in the temple once there is an opportunity. ... The problem is that teenagers are not ready, emotionally and financially to raise the children even if they thin...

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The Truth about Abortion Abortion, the termination of a pregnancy, is a highly controversial issue in today's society. The 1973 court case of Roe verses Wade ruled that women have the right to terminate a pregnancy by abortion within the first six months. What the Supreme Court considered in t...

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Therefore, I am going to support my stand in three different ways, which are ethics, methods, opinion and religious matter. ... Teenager pregnancy is a good example. ... You have to carry an unloved child in your body and go through nine months of pregnancy along with the emotional problems. ... Man can just walk a way with pregnancy but woman is the one who go through nine months of pregnancy alone with like I mentioned it before, mentally and physically. Her body goes through a lot of changes because of that reason; she puts her life completely in hold and sacrifice for unwanted baby. ...

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According to the National Abortion Federation "Each year, one million American teenagers become pregnant, and 85% of these pregnancies are unintended." ... She decided not to go through the pregnancy because she didn"t want to put her child at such a high risk and because the odds of something happening to her were too high. ... Forcing her to go through with that pregnancy will not only have major psychological effects on her, it would also be hard for her to bond with her child. ... It also can save the life of a woman who could be at high risk if she goes to full term with her pregnancy. ...

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The situation in the United States is that the issue will never go way and that the two sides of abortion remain totally polarized. ... If this were to go through states could allow abortion, forbid it, or anything in between. ... Many prolifers feel that contraceptives onto teenagers encourage fornication at a younger age. ...

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