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...

Stem cells are primitive types of cells in the body that can develop into 220 other types of cells, such as, red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, etc. Stem cells can be extracted from very young embryos and researched to hopefully effectively treat or cure life threatening diseases. Us...

International Events Over the summer months of the year two thousand and one something extraordinary happened. An event that will have such an impact to change lives forever. No soul on earth thought that curing diseases such as Alzheimer and Parkinson's would ever be possible, until to...

To put a definition plainly, teratogens are agents responsible for many known birth defects. Research found suggests over eight hundred known teratogens. In this paper, you will find interesting facts based on research, the relationship between teratogens and developmental psychology and some pers...

I see no problem with in vitro fertilization when used to circumvent the inability to create children. Likewise, using selective breeding to reduce the chances of disease is also a very noble thing to do. One could argue that it would be immoral to not perform such actions if one has the means to ...

Is stem-cell research a right thing to do? Of course, in the Church's perspective, it is wrong to do such a thing. Christians believe that the embryo has a moral standing and have the rights to live, while some who are non-believers of the Catholic community says that it has no moral and therefor...

Arguments Against Roe v. Wade Before I was assigned this debate topic I was not sure where I stood on abortion issue. I thought that I knew the facts, and was leaning more towards the pro-choice side just as recent as Wednesday of this week. I knew this conflicted with my principles, morals, and...

In this article, there were several descriptive statistics examined. The survey that was used to collect the information asked not only yes/no questions, but also questions about more specific ideas, such as whether women who were not smoking now had smoked in the past and, if so, how much....

For the purpose of this assignment, I reviewed a research study found in Family Relations. This study, entitled Parental Role Socialization and the Transition to Parenthood, "investigates the relationships between level of socialization for parenthood, using the indicators of personal, family and i...

Gender Biases It is said that boys don't like to play with dolls and that girls don't like to play with trucks. It is also said that this is because of gender biases. That boys are told from a young age that they are supposed to play with boy toys, such as trucks, guns, monsters etc....

Fetal-Surgery "Fetal surgery itself is a relatively new procedure with only a few hundred attempts world wide. Because of the risk of inducing preterm labor and delivering so early in the pregnancy, fetal surgery traditionally was reserved for life- threatening circumstances. While spina ...

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 ...

Now more than ever, both teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases are at the forefront of social awareness. Because of this, now, more than ever, people should be viewing the effects of alcohol not just in terms of driving, but in terms of risky sexual behaviors as well. One suc...

TOXINS: HAZARDOUS OR BENEFICIAL? Toxins are present in plants and foods that we eat. Do toxins have a purpose besides simply making us sick, and if so what is their purpose? In this paper, I will focus on how toxins affect our body and how toxins evolved over the years. Research has shown tha...

Abortion Many people have pondered upon the meaning of abortion. The argument being that every child born should be wanted, and others who believe every child conceived should be born. This has been a controversial topic for many years. However, I strongly disagree with legalization of abortio...

The Causes and Effects of Unsafe Sex Having unsafe sex with a partner is not only brainless; it can be deadly. There are many reasons teens choose to have unsafe sex, from peer pressure, to the passion of the moment, to the media, which often portrays sex as an act with no negative result...

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...

Abortion From 1973 to 1987, over 22 million abortions have been performed. Pro-lifers would call that a terrible waste of humanlife. True, 22 million lives were taken, but I believe that we are better off without those. Webster's dictionary defines abortion as "the expulsion of anonviable fetus." A...

More and more women, especially those who are teenagers, divorced/separated, and women with a history of more than one abortion, are choosing to go through with abortions. About one million six hundred thousand American babies are killed by abortionists' everyday. People who are not willing t...

From the day of your baby's birth, he already has certain abilities and instinctive reactions. But he has a lot to discover and in his early years the gaps are made good by what he learns from his family- most of all, his mother. He learns with all his senses, but particularly by imitation and ...

For humans to consider the cloning of one another forces them all to question the very concepts of right and wrong that make them all human. Aside from a few valid ethical arguments against it, I support the move to clone humans.. Scientists and ethicists alike have debated the implications of hu...

A Heartbeat Abortions have become a very serious matter here in the United States. There were over 1.3 million abortions in the United States in the year 2000, which means one in every five pregnancies ended in abortion. Research came to conclude that the government actually funds abortions. Th...

Today abortion is a pretty simple and safe procedure when done by a trained medical personal during the first three months of pregnancy. Abortion is less safe when preformed after the 13th week of pregnancy. The usual surgical technique of abortion during the first trimester is to insert a metal ...

Breast Cancer Breast cancer is one of the most common types of cancer that women get. It's not only a hassle for women but it can also be deadly. There isn't a certain way that it can be 100 percent prevented, but there are some things you can do to decrease your chance of getting it. ...

There are many health issues facing women today. That one that always comes to mind first and hits hard is breast cancer. Everyday moms, aunts, grandmothers, teachers, doctors, librarians, students, daughter's nieces, etc are diagnosed with a possibly terminal disease and that is breast cancer...