Hormonal contraception

Write neatly and legibly. Copyright reserved Please turn over Life Sciences/P1 3 NSC DBE/Feb. – Mar. 2011 SECTION A QUESTION 1 1.1 Various options are provided as possible answers to the following questions. Choose the correct answer and write only the letter (A – D) next to the question number (1.1.1 – 1.1.6) in the ANSWER BOOK, for example 1.1.7 D. 1.1.1 The process in which male gametes are formed in humans is called … A B C D 1.1.2 When the first…

The age of first sexual experience hasn't gotten any younger — 17 in the U.S., and 16.5 in Canada. The use of condoms and hormonal birth controls had increased as of 2002 in the States, and in Canada, contraception use has risen — nearly 87 per cent of teens have safe sex. (This further suggests that abstinence-only programs may not work.) And adolescents here aren't having any more sex than earlier generations either. "In some ways, [teens] tend to be more conservative now than they were in the…

“The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if the mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.”(Mother Teresa). Abortion is an unspeakable crime which deserves no forgiveness at all. But they may ask the question, what is in reality abortion or what does it mean? Abortion is when a pregnancy is ended so that it doesn’t result in the birth of a child. Sometimes it is called ‘termination of pregnancy.’ Abortion is an action…

Shy is a fourteen-year-old girl, and she believes she is absolutely and really in love with her sixteen year old boyfriend. Her boyfriend, unfortunately, only wants one thing from her: sex. He has threatened her to break up with her if she does not have sex with him, and she really is truly considering doing it. She is very young and just started developing, but she’s already feeling the pressure of what she feels she needs to do to keep her relationship together. Only, she does not have to. She…

pregnancies. (12:3, 13:280) Non-genetic or environmental factors include low vitamin D levels, low selenium levels, hepatitis C, multiple gestations, maternal age over 35, seasonal factors (as incidence rates increase in the winter months), and a potential hormonal component. (9:178, 11:149, 17:329) Maternal implications include varying severities of pruritus, increased risk of postpartum hemorrhage due to fat excretion from steatorrhea affecting (due to malabsorption of vitamin K absorption),…

A brief discussion of some of the factors often associated with adolescent pregnancy will follow. 2.3.1 Female Gender Role Firstly, three concepts need to be defined, that is, gender; gender role and gender typing. According to Galambos (2004) the term ‘gender’ refers to characteristics learnt or acquired by either sex from their society. It is part of that by which individuals define themselves, and give meaning to their actions. Gender role on the other hand refers to appropriate behaviour for…