At the young age of ten William Blake entered a drawing school and studied at the school of the Royal Academy of Arts. When Blake was fourteen he then decided to try his hand at poetry. The contemporary world and the war that was going on led him to write about the religious, moral, and political op...

A high school senior 17 years old Jeff Browning is a successful student at Hamilton High until he found out that his girlfriend Christina Calderon was pregnant and he was very upset because he knew if he became a parent at his age it would ruin his dream of getting a debate scholarship and going to ...

Becoming a mother has been my most memorable experience. I had nausea and dizzy spells but I didn't know why. I was seventeen years old and eleven weeks into my first trimester when I found out that I was pregnant. The thought of telling my mother seemed unbearable. When I finally told her she...

As a writer for a radical, feminist newspaper, and leading birth control agitator of America, Margaret Sanger held the position as an influential international leader for fifty years. Margaret Sanger was born September 14, 1879 in Corning, New York. The sixth of eleven children, Sanger believed her ...

If there was one person in the history of the world that I would like to repay for a transgression without a doubt it would be that little wench, Eve. Her gift of childbirth was the worst gift I've ever received. I could never prepare for it, the pain was excruciating, but the reward was th...

Hi! My name is Karina Rosales I am 22 years old and I am a teen parent. I was 13 years old when I found out I was pregnant. At first I was in denial until a pregnancy test confirmed it. I could not believe what that pregnancy test said because I never planned to be pregnant or had even thought of. ...

Megan Renee"Please, just let me hold her," she pleaded, "just once?""I'm sorry," replied the plump nurse coldly, "but I have my orders, and besides, it will only make things that much worse." To an outsider, it was a heart-wrenching scene. To the hospital, it was something that they dealt with on...

Officials that distribute condoms on school campuses have often been accused of immorality. As stated in the article, Condoms in Schools, "courts have tended to defer to school boards decisions and allow condom distribution programs to stand, but legislators have tended to re...

Imagine you're sixteen years old, and you're sitting in the doctor's office. A nurse approaches you, takes your boyfriend, your mother, and you into a room, are you nervous? You should be. The nurse breaks the news to you that you are pregnant. You start to cry and think of alternativ...

One to two weeks prior to delivery, the mare's hips will "drop". This occurs when the muscles in the mare's hindquarters relax and loosed in order to allow wasy passage of the foal. The mare's udder has been fillling with milk the past few weeks before delivery in order to feed her foal as soon as...

Today in our society life is not respected. Many babies, in the process of growing, are being aborted. I am here with you to make a change. I have a dream that one day life will be respected and that abortion will never exist. Abortion is the murderer of babies and has now become legal in our s...

DELIGHTFUL PREGNANCY A pregnancy usually goes hand to hand with happiness, but some times that delightful moment can turn into pain and when you are ready to face the worse that moment never comes instead happiness arrives. Some times when I look at my three year old daughter playing...

The Birthday I grew up in a dysfunctional but loving family. I am the oldest of six children, born in 1967, from three marriages. My mother was married to my father for about four years having two children; my brother and me. My step-father was previously married for one year and had one child, ...

Abortion The decision to have an abortion is a safe and sensible one for an unwanted pregnancy. The right for a woman to have this procedure should remain legal. She may not be ready for the responsibility of a child, cannot afford to raise a baby at the time, or have been a victim of rape. ...

God works in mysterious ways. Some people don't understand the meaning of that but Koeaster Blount did after not letting her dreams go to waste. She was just a country woman from New Orleans with dreams just like everyone else. She was happily married to Mike Blount, and in her late 30's. ...

I think the subject that has had the biggest impact on me was Chapter 3 when we talked about prenatal development and the importance of prenatal care. The topic that really stood out to me was part about chromosomal errors. In particular Down syndrome, where the child has three copies of chromosom...

That Only a Mother Being an expectant parent is an unnerving task. Along with the anxiety of the new responsibility there is also endless worries about the health of the baby. Now imagine how your fear would be amplified if you were expecting a baby in the wake of a nuclear war. When many of t...

Should Condoms be distributed in High Schools? "More than half of American teenagers have had sexual intercourse and face significant health risks. Each year, over one million teenagers become pregnant, one in seven teenagers contract and STD, and one in five hundred students in college ca...

The Cost of Raising a Child with Special Needs The cost of raising a child with Spina Bifida, a birth defect that affects the spinal cord, poses a serious question to the parent(s). Will I be able to provide, and pay for all of my child's special needs? Prenatal care including tests, ultr...

General Purpose: To convince Specific Purpose: To convince my audience that underage women should get permission from and adult Attention Step I. Imagine a 16-year-old girl who kills her baby at her prom, and receives 10 years in prison. Here's another situation Sabrina Smith, who along ...

For the last couple of decades women have had the right to choose whether or not abortion was the right decision in their life for their own individual reason. The only way to get an abortion in the United States, at the time, was through a surgical abortion where the doctor removes the egg. Thro...

A picture says a thousand words, but in this case, these pictures say more than that. What loving mother would slaughter her own infant who has their entire life in front of them? Today's advancements in technology have given women multiple opportunities to avoid pregnancy, abortion is no lon...

Do you like the thought of telling your parents that you are pregnant or have contracted HIV? I didn't think so, but did you know that condoms are a way of preventing those issues if you are sexually active? In a society, that promotes sex, through the use of music videos, internet, television ...

For the past centuries, breast-feeding has been the customary means of feeding a baby around the world. In the event a woman was unable or unwilling to breast-feed their child, another woman, known as a wet nurse, would do it for her. At the start of the twentieth century, western civilization becam...

As the popular saying goes, "It takes two to tango," and it is a universal truth that it takes two people, specifically, a man and a woman, to create a life. So it follows, that a decision as important as whether or not to abort this life, should be made jointly by both the man and the wo...