The issue brought up in this case study is population and the rate at which it is increasing. With over 6 billion people inhabiting or planet today the population is spiraling out of control. The population growth is usually described by the growth rate and the fertility rate. The growth rate is cal...

Abortion is a very controversial subject that has been continually argued over for the past few years and probably many years to come. The main controversy is simple: should abortion be legalized? First, before we get into the many sides of abortion, we must first define abortion. Abortion is the d...

An abortion is a procedure in which an embryo or fetus (child) is prohibited from developing by artificial means, usually occurring before the 20th week of development. One could argue that this is next to murder. In most religions oppose abortion and it's practice. The Bible states "th...

FDA okays RU486 after years of controversy By Kate Fodor NEW YORK, Sep 28 (Reuters Health) - After 4 years of controversy and negotiation, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday approved the abortion drug mifepristone, more commonly known as RU-486. The approval comes with some, but...

The good news is that the teen pregnancy rate in the U.S. is the lowest it's been since the early '70s, primarily due to teens' increased and improved use of birth control. The bad news is that one million U.S. teens still get pregnant each year, and 78 percent of those pregnancies are unintended...

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...

Human Cloning: The Next Frontier Imagine a world without cancer, leukemia, baldness, kidney failure, heart disease, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and dozens of other diseases. No couple would be infertile, and gay people could have children of their own. No more endangered species would be ...

Teenage pregnancy has been a significant issue in our society, today. The number of single teens who become pregnant continually increases dependence on the social welfare system causing a strain on state and local government services, in which we as a society pay taxes to support. There are three...

A 1999 article by James L. Pirkle and John T. Bernert entitled "Evaluation of Four Maternal Smoking Questions" used a survey method for research. The purpose of this paper is to examine this survey instrument with regards to its validity and reliability, as well as its appropriateness for...

As the school bus rumbled past me, an angry high school student yelled obscenities at me from his open window. I was standing in front of a high school at 7 a.m. with an active pro-life family, holding posters showing aborted fetuses and signs saying, "Abortion Kills Children." The family ...

SUBSTANCE USES AND PREGNANCY THE MULTIPLE WAYS OF DISSEMINATING INFORMATION January 1989 the results of a study conducted by Ann Pytkowicz Streissguth were published in the Journal of Developmental Psychology. The study investigated the relationship of matern...