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Pro-Life And Pro-Choice Regarding Abortion
<view this essay>.... question is not are you for or against it is weather or not a fetus is or is not a human being at the time of conception. Many pro-life advocates say that the answer is conception. The moment when a mans sperm and a womens egg, are joined. "At that moment the fetus is formed as a unique person that is allowed to develop freely, would grow to function independently." So abortion is wrong. Many pro-choice proponents argue that human life begins at viability, the moment when a fetus can survive outside the mothers womb. That is why they believe abortion is an okay decision to make.
Pro-life advocates believe that a babys life begins at conception. They .....
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Acupuncture
<view this essay>.... acupuncture and 86% reported no pain and 10% reported only slight pain
(Aching for Relief 2).
Acupuncture is the Chinese method of relieving pain and treating
various diseases by inserting needles into specific places on the body.
Specialists called acupuncturists insert needles along meridians or painful
points on the body.
During acupuncture tiny one-to-two inch needles are inserted at
selected acupuncture points. Acupuncturists recognize nearly 400 of these
special locations on each side of the body and another 250-300 "extra-
meridian" points outside the meridian lines. The needles are typically
turned clockwise or counterclockwise to evoke patie .....
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Abortion Has Been One Of This Country's Most Controversial Topic On Hand
<view this essay>.... fetus for nine months. Having the option to perform an abortion can
solve that obstacle. Taking away this right would be invading on a woman's
constitutional liberty.
The unwanted child also suffers. Most of the time the mother of the
unwanted child is very young and inexperienced or too poor to take care of
the child. The child is usually malnourished, has no medical care, and
gets very little attention or love. The foster care system isn't any
better. Only a small percentage of the children are adopted by suitable
parents. But the rest remain in the foster care system, where there is
little or no personal care. In both cases, the child .....
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Euthanasia Is Religious, Medically, And Legally Wrong
<view this essay>.... of murder in the second digree.
The courts were obliged to find him guilty as he broke the law by taking
the life of another human being. Robert Latimer took it upon himself to
decide that his daughter would never lead a full life. Tracy Latimer was
never given an opportunity for success, as her life was taken. A not
guilty verdict would have told people that parents of disabled children
can perform both voluntary euthanasia on their children. In the United
States, euthanasia was voted on for the first time in the state of
Washington. Although polls before the vote revealed strong support for
it,the ballot was defeated by fifty-four to forty-six percent .....
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Abortion
<view this essay>.... religious organizations in the United States support legal
abortion.4 These include the United Church of God, Church of the Brethren,
Lutheran Church in America, the Unitarian Universalistic Association, the
American Baptist Church, the National Council of Jewish Women, Presbyterian
Church in the United States, Reformed Church in America, American Friends
Service Committee and the Episcopal Church.5 Even the Catholic Church,
which normally opposes abortion, makes an exception when the fetus is
killed in the process of saving the mother.6 About 83% of Americans
approve of abortion in cases of rape, or when the fetus is abnormal or
likely to suffer a disabili .....
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Malaria
<view this essay>.... malaria is a disease, they are
unaware that it is life threatening, kills over a million people each year, and
is a very elusive target for antimalarial drugs (Treatment of Malaria, 1996).
Being a very specific disease, malaria is caused by only four protozoal
parasites: Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium ovale, and
Plasmodium malariae. Not only is the disease specific, but the parasites are
too, with only 60 of 380 species of female Anopheles mosquitoes as vectors.
With the exception of Plasmodia Malariae which may affect other primates, all
parasites of malaria have only one host, Homo sapiens. Because some mosquitoes
contain substance .....
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Cystic Fibrosis
<view this essay>.... than the child has a 50% chance of having CF and a 50% chance of just being a carrier. If both parents are carriers than their child will have a 25% of having CF, a 50% chance of being a carrier and a 25% chance of not being affected. CF is common in both males and females, there is not a specific sex that it is more common in.
There are many symptoms to this deadly disease including: salty tasting skin, constant coughing, large amounts of mucus, trouble gaining weight, frequent greasy, foul smelling bowel, growths in the nose (nasal polyps) and clubbed or enlarged fingertips and toe tips is another symptom. Now there are many tests that can be done to fin .....
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AIDS
<view this essay>.... becoming a global epidemic. No country is safe from it. There
has been AIDS cases reported around the world, in such places as the Caribbean,
Southeast Asia, Southeast Mediterranean , and Oceania. This helps to show that
AIDS knows no geographical boundries (Folks). This disease has been likened to
the Black Plaque that decimated Europe during the middle ages. By April 1984,
scientists had identified the virus responsible for AIDS and by March 1995
developed a blood test for it (Combating AIDS 355). This quick progress in the
battle even lead Heckler, the secretary of health and human services, to say
that a cure was just a few years away. Today, no c .....
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