1. Birth Control

2. Birth Control Forms: Condoms Pills Inserts Patch Diaphragm Abstinence
What’s the common theme??

3. Morning After Pill Can be taken up to 5 days after unprotected sex
Commonly administered after:
Rape
Inebriated
Condom or contraception broke
Prevents woman’s egg from releasing
Thins lining around uterus so a fetus couldn’t attach

4. Adoption Not ready to raise a child
Financially
Emotionally
Usually can choose open or closed adoption
Open allows you to communicate with adoptive parents
Closed legally forbids you to know anything about the child
Why might adoption not be for you?
Attachment at birth
Morally can’t give up child
Concern for child’s future
Have to have both parents’ consent

5. Abortion Methods: Pill/Injection Suction Partial Birth Abortions -
Can be taken only during the first 8 weeks
Blocks necessary hormones the fetus needs
Fetus drops of and leaves body vaginally
Suction
Can be done up to 24 weeks pregnant but some states have stricter laws
Dr. inserts tube vaginally to remove placenta and fetus from uterus
Partial Birth Abortions -
Last 3 months of pregnancy
Used saline to flood womb

6. Abortion Stance Two Social Stances on Abortion
Pro Life – Failed Abortion
Against abortion in any way
Everything happens for a reason
Religious reasons
Responsibility
Pro –Choice –
Promotes the woman’s right to choose
Against government making decisions on a private matter
Worry about teens and low income families that may not be emotionally or financially ready

7. The Fight Pro Lifers Pro Choicers
Creating laws that force women to have ultrasounds, name babies before aborting
Violent protests and bombing abortion clinics
Pro Choicers
Using abortion as birth control

8. Men’s Rights?
What obligation does a woman have to tell the man she is pregnant?
What right does the man have to determine whether the child is kept, adopted, or aborted?
How might this situation affect a relationship?
Lost Ones

9. In the Media
16 and Pregnant/Teen Mom
Positive and negative messages?