Gestation

The effects of exercising while pregnant were frowned upon not too many years ago, women were told not to exercise or any physical activity out of concern that it may educe the chance of becoming pregnant when they wanted to. They were told that it would impair the growth of the fetus during pregnancy or increase the risk of having a difficult delivery during childbirth. But in the last 20 to 25 years, attitudes have changed dramatically and for a good reason. Research has shown that trained…

an ultrasound prior to the abortion. According to Kimport, Weitz, and Foster, in the U.S. approximately 1.1 million abortions are performed annually and even though an ultrasound isn’t medically necessary, it is sometimes used to date pregnancy gestation. According to the Guttmacher Institute, an ultrasound may also be used to personify the fetus and persuade the woman to not have an abortion; ultrasounds being medically unnecessary, add unnecessary costs to the already expensive…

In healthcare today we are faced with many moral and ethical dilemmas, many of which have been created by the advent of newer technology. Some of the current topics include the 13-year-old girl in California declared brain dead, the pregnant woman in Texas who was declared brain dead and the hospital obeying the law to keep her on life support to get the baby to an age to deliver, the issues or reproductive technology---how many embryo to implant, genetic disposition (getting a baby with blue…

“Math in Medicine” Contrary to popular belief, medicine and math coincide with each other in many different ways. Although the majority of people find math to be of no use towards their daily life, and see it as the bane of their studies, this shows that they are quick to judge a topic that they might not be very educated on the specifics of. Mathematics not only helps medical research specialists when trying to find equations to new chemicals, but these same discoveries help create…

Women around the world have used abortion to control their reproduction at every point in history and in every known society for an ample amount of reasons. The decision to have an abortion is typically motivated by multiple, diverse and interrelated reasons but the 3 most common causes would be the fact that the mother is too young and not prepared for the transition into motherhood, the second reason being financial complications and the final reason is the fact that a young child could…

second stanza highlights the close proximity that the chord is to the speaker’s mother. Though “umbilical” refers to inseparable attachment in a literal sense, it also signifies the umbilical cord that has connected every fetus to the placenta during gestation. This subtle reference of the process before giving birth foreshadows the extended discussion on the biblical rebirth that follows and demonstrates the hopefulness that the poem exudes, apart from the overall despondent and gloomy…

With NIPT consisting of a simple blood test, it eradicates the risk of harm to both the foetus and the mother. This makes it much safer whilst still being just as accurate (99%) and also able to be done as early as the first 7-9 weeks of gestation. In terms of the NHS, less expertise will be required to perform a simple blood test compared to invasive testing and so less staff will be required. With NIPT not imposing the risk to the foetus or discomfort to the mother that invasive prenatal…

Merriam-Webster dictionary, abortion defined is “the termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus as a spontaneous expulsion of a human fetus during the first 12 weeks of gestation--miscarriage, the induced expulsion of a human fetus, or the expulsion of a fetus by a domestic animal often due to infection at any time before completion of pregnancy.” Abortion is one of the most controversial topics. Everyone has an opinion…

Logan Conklin Mrs. Couzens Language Arts, 4th Hour 23 March 2016 Veganism, Good or Bad Imagine you just got unwillingly artificially inseminated again and it's happened more times than you can count. Your living conditions are so awful, you are constantly afraid, abused, and stressed, you're being fed grain when it's unnatural and you know you should be eating grass but you can't. Because grass doesn't make you gain weight fast enough and with the business the faster you can be killed the…

because the connections from the periphery to the cortex are not intact. Most neuroscientists believe that the cortex is completely necessary for pain perception, it can be concluded that the fetus cannot experience any pain at all prior to this gestation. There is evidence proving fetal pain does not occur until at least 20 weeks pregnant, so this basically concludes that abortions should be legal because of the wide time gap where the fetus feels no pain at all during the…