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    and for diverse reasons in America. The main purpose of those birth controls is to avoid women’s gestation by interrupting their ovulations or by stopping the sperm from getting into their eggs. This, consequently, leads to the avoidance of an unwanted pregnancy. In America, women use many different types of birth controls. Nexplanon (also known as Etonogestrel Implant) is a particular type of birth control used by many women in America. It is one of the most used forms of contraception in the country

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    In the US around, fifty-one percent of pregnancies are unintended. With thirty-one percent of those being unwanted. This statistic comes from the CDC. It is an unfortunate thing that, that many pregnancies go unwanted, but within those unwanted pregnancies rape does play a role. Five percent of rape victims do occur an unwanted. In the United States there are options and one of those options is of course giving your child away for adoption, but women should have more options. Women should have the

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    Women should hold the control over their bodies and not be forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term because of the effects it will have on their and their child’s well-being. Controversially, most women who opt for abortion are unstable and do not have the means to raise a child. Incidentally,the vast majority of unstable mothers are teenage mothers. According to the CDC, “the U.S. teen pregnancy rate is substantially higher than in other western industrialized nations.” Since the United States

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    of all pregnancies in the United States are unintended.” (NCSL) Ensuring that all America 's women have access to affordable contraception is what those who fight for the right for insured oral contraceptive want. In America, contraception is legal for everyone, not just married couples, and is frequently used by unmarried sexual partners for precisely that purpose: to avoid pregnancy and/or sexually transmitted diseases. The purposes of contraception’s are to prevent unwanted pregnancies and sexually

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    given to you your entire life about how to keep yourself protected from an unwanted pregnancy yet here you are, walking into a planned parenthood ready to take care of the issue in one quick visit, I think thats awful. There are approximately 1.21 million abortions made per year, which is about 3,315 per day. When asked the reason for getting the procedure done 93% occurred for social reasons such as the child being unwanted/inconvenient. Its estimated that about 35% of all women will have AT LEAST

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    The implementation of sex education in schools will provide teenagers with the appropriate information about sexual disease and early pregnancies. In the last five years, this theme about Sex Education is expanding ever so gradually within the schools. However, the statistics keep the subject of Sex Education alive in schools by having it be implemented as programs. Schools administrators should have more programs and people who are well trained to help students with learning about Sex Education

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    to help keep unwanted pregnancies at bay. A large portion of the population that is seen at the clinic where I work only had insurance for the duration of the pregnancy and no coverage after the patient delivers. To help stop unwanted pregnancies categorical data was collected to see what portion of population that comes to the clinic could not afford long lasting contraceptives. When doing research it shows that the inner city clinic populations have a higher percentage of pregnancies based on lack

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    In medicine, abortion is the premature exit of the products of conception (the fetus, fetal membranes, and placenta) from the uterus. It is the loss of a pregnancy and does not refer to why the pregnancy was lost (https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=2091). Abortion is a very contentious issue and the attitude towards it has always been and is still very controversial. It has caused uncounted deaths and violent confrontations between the supporters of the two separate parties

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    According to Wikipedia, abortion is the premature exit of the products of conception (the fetus, fetal membranes, and placenta) from the uterus. It is the loss of a pregnancy and does not refer to why the pregnancy was lost. Abortion is a very contentious issue and the attitude towards it has always been and is still very controversial. It has caused uncounted deaths and several violent confrontations between the supporters of the two separate parties. Pro-life supporters advocate that everyone has

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    views about the incompleteness of the term 'good, ' and her use of thought experiments to make philosophical points. In the article, Thomson defends abortions in several certain circumstances, the critique here is for the circumstances of unwanted pregnancy due to rape. She begins her argument with her counterpart’s argument that is commonly used in defense of pro-life. Their premises are that every person has a right to life, and believe a fetus is a person, therefore a fetus has the right to

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