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The Ethics Of Abortion
<view this essay>.... PRO-CHOICE or those who believe it is the womans right to choose if she wants to have an abortion. These two groups offer different solutions to problem. The pro-life solution is to have the child and basically live with it. They believe abortion is not an answer. The pro-choice solution is abortion because of reasons they feel are appropriate.
Although abortion is morally and ethically wrong should it be legal for victims of rape or incest who have no other alternative?
There is no real answer to this controversy, there are two sides to it though which have been arguing for many years over the subject. The first is the pro-life group. This group d .....
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The Human Immunodeficiency Virus And Mutations
<view this essay>.... possible because if we know that HIV survives through mutations
then we might be able to come up with a type of drug to retard these
mutations allowing the immune system time to expunge it before the onset of
AIDS.
BACKGROUND
In order to be able to fully comprehend and analyze this question
we must first ascertain what HIV is, how the body attempts to counter the
effects of viruses in general, and how HIV infects the body.
Definition
HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. HIV is classified as a RNA
Retrovirus. A retrovirus uses RNA templates to produce DNA. For example,
within the core of HIV is a double molecule of ribonucleic acid, RNA. .....
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Antibiotics And Their Role In Society
<view this essay>.... organisms such as bacteria, fungi, and molds. Others are wholly or in part synthetic which means produced artificially.
Penicillin is perhaps the best known antibiotic. Its discovery and later development is among mankind's greatest achievements. Antibiotics have enabled the medical profession to treat effectively many infectious diseases, including some that were once life threatening. Antibiotics can be bacteriostatic (bacteria stopped from multiplying) or bactericidal (bacteria killed). To perform either of these functions, antibiotics must be brought into contact with the bacteria.
It is believed that antibiotics interfere with the surface of bacteria .....
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Abortion: A Matter Of Choice
<view this essay>.... citizens. One only needs to look into American history to see the results of prohibiting abortions to women. The violence which occurs today because the of pro-choice/pro-life conflicts is minimal in comparison to the thousands of hopeless women who turned to the illegal abortions --either self-inflicted or preformed by the backroom "professionals"-- which resulted in infection, massive blood loss, and death. It is better now that they have a place to go where abortions can be performed cleanly and with minimal risk.
Legalization of abortion is the only choice no matter what side one takes in the debate. Women will try to do what they think is necessary to .....
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Eating Disorders
<view this essay>.... of the negative attitude toward overweight people try these diets which can ultimately lead to anorexia, bulimia, or binge .
Anorexia is an eating disorder characterized by a distorted body image accompanied by an intense fear of appearing overweight. People with anorexia have a preoccupation with food and weight which often masks an underlying psychological problem. They lack self-esteem and feel that they can gain admiration by losing weight and becoming thin. The patients will deny being hungary or claim to be full after eating only a few bites of a meal. Dangerous signs of a person with anorexia are hair loss on the head, fainting spells, heart tr .....
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The Cystic Fibrosis Gene
<view this essay>.... gene was discovered while at the same time, discussing the protein
defect in the CF gene, the bio-chemical defect associated with CF, and
possible treatments of the disease.
Finding the Cystic Fibrosis Gene:
The classical genetic approach to finding the gene that is
responsible for causing a genetic disease has been to first characterize
the bio-chemical defect within the gene, then to identify the mutated
protein in the gene of interest, and finally to locate the actual gene.
However, this classical approach proved to be impractical when searching
for the CF gene. To find the gene responsible for CF, the principle of
"reverse genetics" was .....
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Artificial Contraceptives
<view this essay>.... complications like infections or blood clots may occur (Planned Parenthood, pg. 3). Moreover, sometimes people later regret not being able to have children. Another form of birth control is the intrauterine device or IUD. IUD’s are tiny metal or plastic loops or coils that are placed in the uterus. They have an effectiveness of 95-99%(Funk & Wagnall’s, pg.98). A physician must insert IUD’s, but they can remain there until it is desired to be removed for a pregnancy. Although they sound ideal, some women have experienced uterine cramps and increased menstrual flow when using an IUD. (Billings, pg.63) in fact, some devices increase the r .....
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Should Steroids Be Banned From Society?
<view this essay>.... to the local gym and find sellers to obtain the drug that will make him the idol of all his classmates. Being such an attractive drug, as shown in the analogy above, and seeming harmless to the unaware user, steroids can have a potentially jeopardous effect. Consistently, users, new and experienced, have no knowledge to the dangerous consequences' steroids can have on their minds and bodies. Although steroids cause minimal deaths in our society, banning of steroids is purely justified because steroids have extremely perilous side effects on the unsuspecting user.
Though steroids are known as a somewhat dangerous substance, they are legal to possess and consume, .....
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