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Put into action this past Wednesday by the Food and Drug Administration is the controversial allowance of seventeen year-olds to purchase Plan-B, also known as the morning after pill, without a prescription. While Plan-B has no medicinal tie to the already available abortion pill, still it has managed to shake the political realm more so than the medical field from which it derives. Made available over the counter to individuals eighteen years of age or older in 2006, Plan-B has had no measurabl… Continue

Having stumbled upon the outdated but never outlived classics of Walt Disney during my time home this past weekend, I noticed the idealistic way in which the female body is both represented and hyper-sexualized to a certain degree. And while these are aspects that went unrecognizable as a child, the image of an almost perfect female body—both in dimension and physic—is an image that certainly socializes women at a dangerously young age to view themselves in a certain light—a light that reflects… Continue

It has been nearly six weeks sense the alleged truth behind the shocking incident between Rihanna and Chris Brown shattered the air waves and branded the pages of both local and national news papers, and still the incident remains unresolved. Even more disappointing is the rising number of young girls who view Rihanna not as a victim, rather the cause of the violence enacted upon her. According to a survey conducted by the Boston Public Health Commission, forty-six percent of teens blame Rihanna… Continue

It used to be that bearing a boy or a girl was a hit or miss affair, the executive decision (of course) stemming from the chromosome of the male’s sperm—no longer is that the case. Parents who have access to the latest genetic testing techniques can now predetermine their baby’s sex with great accuracy, in addition to screening genetic diseases and deficiencies, which seems to be the key reason for this type of gene therapy. In fact, if gene therapy lives up to its promise, parents may someday b… Continue

Having found myself in the same predicament as many Americans, struggling to maintain the barely sufficient flow of cash into my bank account, I came across an advertisement for egg donors. While it was not a thought that had entered my mind until that point, my thoughts of donating an egg were put on hold due to the race of the lady featured in the advertisement, she was White, which compelled me to think about donating eggs to a person of a different race or ethnicity than yourself. Because mo… Continue