Reproductive System Essays

Interest in sex control has increased through the years as a result of cultural, social and medical reasons. Interest has increased because preconception methods, such as “sperm sorting”, have become more prevalent. This method does away with the painful decision to terminate a second-trimester pregnancy especially for couples at risk …

MacKinnon’s ‘Not a Moral Issue’ begins by defining what she believes to be the differences between obscenity law and pornography. Obscenity is a ‘moral issue’ and is ‘abstract’; pornography is a ‘political practise’ and ‘concrete’. Obscenity law is concerned with the views and practises of birth control, nudity, ect. Pornography …

Just days after the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, CBS issued a press-release confirming the sexual assault of its Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Lara Logan at Tahrir Square. Certain segments of media commentary were problematic in the way they constructed sexist misrepresentations of women who choose to report from dangerous conflict …

Perhaps the most volatile and controversial debate of the last century and a half is that of abortion and the legal right for a mother to decide the fate of the unborn child within her. Over the course of these years factions, leagues, and organizations have formed solely for debating …

In the nineteenth century, the concept of the lesbian as a “figure” surfaced. That is, the term “lesbian” came to signify a certain portion of the population adhering to a regiment of attributes and classifications. Scientists combined the fields of medical, sexual, and psychological study to create sexology. These self-proclaimed …

Feminism is said to be the movement to end women’s oppression. One possible way to understand ‘woman’ in this claim is to take it as a sex term: ‘woman’ picks out human females and being a human female depends on various biological and anatomical features (like genitalia). Historically many feminists …

“Human sexuality encompasses the sexual knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, values, and behaviours of individuals. Its various dimensions involve the anatomy, physiology, and biochemistry of the sexual response system; identity, orientation, roles, and personality; and thoughts, feelings, and relationships. Sexuality is influenced by ethical, spiritual, cultural, and moral concerns.” The above definition …

Abortion is currently defined as “an untimely delivery voluntarily occurred with an intent to destroy the foetus”. Abortion was at first made illegal in 1803 but cultural changes led to the passing of the Abortion Act in 1967 when abortion became legal up to 28 weeks of the pregnancy. This …

The term ‘human life is sacred’ means that since every person is made in the image of God, life itself is a gift from God – it is holy and sacred. It is because man is made in God’s image that men, women and children are set apart from the …

Although a lot of people appose abortion not every one does so in my essay I will be exploring why and why not people appose abortion? This is important because it is an issue, which is debated a lot, and people have different views on it. Also recently there have …