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    who become pregnant are unlikely to finish high school. Children of teen parents are probable to suffer more health problems and to perform poorly during school, given that they are typically provided with underprivileged environments. Most developed countries have implemented programs meant to educate teenagers concerning the dangers associated with becoming pregnant at an early age. Even with this, some programs have had limited results and the number of teens who are becoming pregnant was not significantly

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    experience they go through in life. But women who are in prison say other wise. Being pregnant and locked up is one of the worse and hardest experience in life for them. It is not because they are pregnant in prison but it is the treatment they receive before and after the birth. Some of the women say they get great treatment but others say the treatment is horrid.People in the real world are debating if the treatment of pregnant women in prison is proper or if the treatment needs to be changed for the good

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    Office of Adolescent Health, “One in four girls will become pregnant before the age of twenty.” (http://youth.gov/sites/default/files/2015TPPMonth_DirectorStatement.pdf) Teenage pregnancy is a growing problem that has now become a major epidemic. Most of the incidents that happen with accidental teenage pregnancy are spontaneous acts that involved a lack of education and parental guidance. Two years ago, 19.4 percent of teen girls got pregnant in Maryland, according to The Office of Adolescent Health

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    Logline : The lives and perspective of a confused high school girl, a working class pregnant woman and a witty old woman intertwine in three tales of intimacy, passion and commitment in love and relationships. Synopsis : Set in 2012, In Los Angeles California, In the library, while solving a crossword in a newspaper, MURIEL, a 70 year old woman meets a receptionist VALENA, a 30 year old pregnant woman and a 16 year old high school girl JULIET. In order to help Juliet with her final paper on Romeo

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    atrocities. [Double thesis] People who oppose abstinence education think such programs lead to higher teen pregnancies along with a long list of STDs. On the other hand, people who favor them say this is the sole way to guarantee you will not get pregnant or catch any STD while might see this as a somewhat come of as ignorance. [Common Ground] We can all agree no one wants their children to contract or suffer from STDs. No one wants to encourage teen pregnancy.

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    Teens And Teen Pregnancy

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    see the thing here is that teens are still children who are having other children. 16 year olds do not just wake up thinking they want to have a baby, most of the time it just happens without being planned. Teens often do not think about what life would be like as a parent which is easy to happen and we should be informed on the reasons why and what it really is like. The first reason why a girl can easily get pregnant is not being informed about contraceptives. There are about 1,700 school-based health

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    Television providers are contradicting the cause via magazines. We are now constantly seeing the stars of popular shows such as 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom appearing constantly in the media. The number one example of glamorization of teen pregnancy is magazines. ‘“16 and Pregnant was originally designed by MTV to show viewers (mostly young women) what life as a pregnant teen was really like. Every time the show airs, MTV promotes a website called StayTeen.org that “encourage[s] you to enjoy your

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    Banning Plan B Pill

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    Plan B pills is a issue because it can cause the pregnancy rate to increase because teenagers will not have an emergency contraception close by. This is also an issue because most teens are not brave enough to confess to their parents that they are pregnant. Anti Abortion activist think this short-sighted decision can lead to more unprotected sex and lower the number of sexually active teens who actually discuss this with their parents or doctors. Recent statistics show that in 2015, teen pregnancy

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    Zika Testing Cons

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    Geraldson D’Haiti English 101 9/12/16 “Pregnant Women Anxious as Florida’s Zika Test Results Take Weeks” by Lizette Alvarez The New York Time article “Pregnant Women Anxious as Florida’s Zika Test Results Take Weeks” by Lizette Alvarez discusses the controversy between zika virus testing for pregnant women and the amount of time to receive the results. Many pregnant women have been taking advantage of Florida’s offer of free Zika testing. The con with the free testing is that state

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    Sixteen (16) and Pregnant! Does “sixteen and pregnant” promote, or discourage teen pregnancy? Although, “sixteen and pregnant shows some of the struggles of being a teenage parent, it doesn’t show all. MTV has given a show to children, for having children. They have put a glorification on getting pregnant at a young age. Instead of teaching and telling them what the outcome of their life could be if they are to have children while there still a child themselves. On the show they give false

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