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Morality And Legality Of Abortion
Words: 546 - Pages: 2.... is eforced by the law. We assert that to
ahrm another intentionally or otherwise is wrong and deserving of punishment.
Our laws condemn murderers and shun drunk drivers, charging involuntary
manslaughter in the case that he/she inadvertently kills another in an accident.
There are severe repercussions for rapists and assault of another person. We
also often assert that to harm oneself intentionally or in a way that could
have been prevented by our own precaution is wrong. These examples include the
seatbelt and helmet laws and the ingestion of harmful drugs. In keeping with our
common and lawful morality that is careful to protect hum .....
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How The Government May Have Created AIDS
Words: 8886 - Pages: 33.... addressed on this program, so I would
like to review briefly the major points -- the most significant pieces of
evidence -- that I presented two weeks ago.
The first point was that in the early 1970's, Henry Kissinger wrote a
top secret document -- a National Security Memorandum ("NSM 200") -- in
which he indicated that "depopulation should be the highest priority of US
foreign policy towards the Third World." This Memorandum which can be
obtained from the US National Archives, which was only declassified very
quietly in 1990, was adopted by the National Security Council as official
US foreign policy towards the Third World. Now, thi .....
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Smoking: I Can Stop Whenever I Want
Words: 432 - Pages: 2.... world, but it shouldn't be because
Marijuana smoking isn't. Cigarettes are addictive and they usually lead the
smoker to marijuana use or to other kind of drugs. That's why I think that young
teenagers shouldn't start smoking at young age. All of you people out there who
think that they can stop whenever they want, well I have news flash for you. 1
out of 10 smokers succeed in quitting smoking in United-States. Everyone thinks
that they have an iron will and they keep on delaying the time to stop, I'll
just stop as my new year resolution, I'll stop in a month, a week, a year.
Smoking is really hard to quit, it's an addictive habit and you .....
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Abortion
Words: 1427 - Pages: 6.... those with incomes above twenty-five thousand. Unmarried women are four to five times more likely to abort than married and the rate has doubled for 18 and 19 year olds. Recently the U.S. rate dropped 6 percent overall but the rate of among girls younger than 15 jumped 18 percent. The rate among minority teens climbed from 186 per 1,000 to 189 per 1,000.
The most popular procedure involved in s is the vacuum aspiration which is done during the first trimester (three months or less since the women has become pregnant). A tube is simply inserted through the cervix and the contents of the uterus are vacuumed out. The most commonly used ty .....
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Euthanasia: The Right To Die
Words: 2101 - Pages: 8.... sleep, and there comes a
time when it is wrong, as well as useless to resist."
-Steward Alsop, Stay of Execution
Euthanasia has become an issue of increasing attention because of Dr.
Jack Kevorkian's assisted suicides. As of October 21 Kevorkian has assisted in
nineteen suicides. Because of the increasing number of suicides in Michigan,
Gov. Engler signed an anti-suicide law in late February that made doctor-
assisted suicides a felony. During the 21-month trial period of the new law
anyone assisting in a suicide can be sentenced to up to four years in prison and
fined more than $2,000 (Reuters, 1993).
With the passing of this law .....
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AIDS
Words: 379 - Pages: 2.... which afflict 70% of the infected people.
AIDS is transmitted in three ways. Intimate sexual contact is the
most common. While direct contact with infected blood and transactions to
babies from the infected mother's fetus will also cause the disease.
Although some speculation, you cannot receive the disease from air, food,
water, or insects.
AIDS is a life and death issue. To have the AIDS disease is a
sentence of slow but inevitable death. There currently is no cure or
vaccine for this disease. There are drugs that have been proven effective
in slowing the spread of this deadly disease.
We know enough about how the infection is .....
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What Causes Infectious Diseases To Strike?
Words: 1411 - Pages: 6.... unanswered today. This mysterious virus ha sdisturbing symptoms and almost no incubation period. Ebola liquefies every organ of the body and causes bleeding from every opening. The virus is twice as deadly as AIDS and works one-thousand times as fast, killing victims in three to ten days. Ebola is spread from mostly by means of close contact with an infected person and can also be tranfered through sexual contact. People who are lucky enough to survive the disease usually pose no threat of infection to others.
Marburg is just as deadly as ebola, but is less widespread. Marburg causes hemmoragic siesures in the body, as doe .....
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Abortion
Words: 621 - Pages: 3.... a doctor grabs his forceps and crushes a child's skull and sucks
out what was once a brain, how could they say that is not murder, how could
someone get away with doing this. Then again people ask that same question
about OJ.
There are many abortion-slaughter techniques that are used today.
Examples are the Dilatation and Curettage (D&C) where a loop shaped steel knife
is inserted and the child is cut into pieces, also there is the Dilatation and
Evacuation (D&E) where the doctor uses forceps with sharp metal jaws and tears
the child apart, piece by piece. Usually the head is hardened to bone and must
be compressed or crushed in order t .....
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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gherig's Disease)
Words: 445 - Pages: 2.... ALS attacks the motor neurons in your nervous
system that control your muscles. Your motor neurons slowly deteriorate, causing
your muscles to not receive information from your brain. Your muscles then
become useless and begin to deteriorate.
Symptoms of ALS include:
Tripping and falling
Loss of motor control in hands and arms
Difficulty speaking and swallowing or difficulty breathing
Persistent fatigue
Twitching and cramping, sometimes severely
As ALS progresses, all voluntary muscles become useless. The patient
cannot eat, breathe or communicate with others. Total life support may be the
only thing keeping them alive .....
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Assumptions And Principles Underlying Standards For Care Of The Terminally Ill
Words: 1137 - Pages: 5.... complementary systems of treatment which may often
overlap: One system is concerned with eliminating a curable disease and the
other with relieving the symptoms resulting from the relentless progress of an
incurable illness. There must be openness, interchange, and overlap between the
two systems so that the patient receives continuous appropriate care. The
patient should not be subjected to aggressive treatment that offers no hope of
being effective in curing or controlling the disease and may only cause further
distress. Obviously, the clinician must be on the alert for any shifts that may
occur in the course of a terminal illness, whic .....
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