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    The Catholic Perspective on Contraceptives Contraception is a technique that individuals practice in order to prevent pregnancy. There are several reasons why one may want to use contraceptive devices or medicine to avoid conception while engaging in sexual intercourse, but in the Catholic religion, contraception is forbidden under most circumstances. Contraception is prohibited in the Catholic Church because it removes the unity between a man and a woman in which God anticipated through sexual

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    Current Event #1: ACA Contraception Coverage Restricted Vivian J. Blakely Oklahoma City Community College Free Contraception Coverage Revoked On Friday, Oct. 6, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), under the Trump Administration, successfully retracted a policy within the Affordable Care Act (ACA) which previously stated that companies and insurance agencies were required to provide free contraception coverage for their employees. Contraception Coverage Under the ACA In 2012

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    readiness of all service members regardless of gender. I think women also should be able to access to birth control pills or other contraception when they are in duty. However, I am not sure using contraception or birth control to reduce or eliminate menstrual will cause no side effect because I learned that there are some side effects of using birth control or contraception. It is sad that some active duty women struggle to receive birth controls pills or LARCS (long acting reversible contraceptives)

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    chose is the Supreme Court faces 4-4 split in Obamacare contraception case. The article was written on Thursday, March 24,2016 at10:02 ET. The author is Lawrence Hurley. On Wednesday, March 23,2016 the Supreme Court heads toward a legal challenge created by a Christian nonprofit employers that are against providing female workers insurance that covers birth control which is required by Obama’s healthcare law. The employers call contraception as immoral and they also said that the government should

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    varied as people hypothesized about a process that was hidden from view. The act of having children has remained constant overtime, but largely, so has the use of contraception. Forms of birth control differed geographically as civilizations had different plants and substances due to climates and fertility of the land. The use of contraception in the Egyptian, Greek, and Islamic worlds was extremely prevalent as Ancient civilizations

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    Stroke and Infarction with Hormonal Contraception During one year, one in 3,000 women who are taking oral contraceptives will develop a blood clot (James, n.d.). These blood clots can lead to more dangerous events such as a thrombotic strokes or myocardial infarctions. Through a nursing research article from The New England Journal of Medicine, a study was conducted in Denmark to assess the risks of taking oral contraceptives and its correlation with stroke and infarction. The article explains

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    Body Wash & Contraceptives We all hear the joke; “Don’t drop the soap”, but we don’t always understand the reality behind this phrase. The media portrays sexual assaults against men in jail as jokes that hide a reality not many want to consider facing. Yet these incidents do happen to both men and women behind bars and just because we cannot hear their voices doesn’t mean they aren’t speaking to us. They are in need of help, trapped in a system built against them. So yes prison rape is an issue in

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    woman wish to postpone childbearing, she may encounter difficulties finding contraceptive methods. “The most commonly reported reasons for unmet need [for contraception] are lack of knowledge, health concerns, and social disapproval” (Casterline & Sinding, 2000 as cited in Levine et al., 2006). The lack of female education about contraception in countries where it would be of greatest aid is a major indicator of why maternal mortality is still such a prevalent issue. In American, “woman have to

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    The Rise Of Birth Control

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    control is worth a hundred dollars invested in economic growth (Bailey, 2013).” The rise of contraception in the United States was controversial and highly debated in court. But, once the movement got rolling, it was hard to stop. When a Gallop Poll in 1936 asked if United States citizens favor the birth control movement, 61 percent answered yes. This was a shocking discovery, because until that time contraception seemed like a taboo topic. Today, the manufacturing and selling of birth control is legal

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    The Morning After Pill The emergency contraception pill, often wrongly called the abortion pill, is a solution to the high teen pregnancy rate in the USA. There were 521,826 teen mothers in the United States in 1990 (Adolescent pregnancy 2). The United States also has the highest rate of pregnancy, abortion, and childbirth among teenagers than any other country (McKeown 1). Also, the Untied States spends an unbelievable 7 billion dollars a year on teen pregnancy costs (National Campaign To

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