... the procedure on a woman 17 or younger until 48 hours after one parent has been notified by certified mail, however the law does not require that the parent give consent. If minor fears for her safety if her parents find out about her sexual activity, or are she can demonstrate that she is mature enough to make the decision on her own she can bypass the law by requesting a hearing before a Superior Court Judge. In implementing this act New Jersey has become the 40’Th State in the county to enforce laws requiring minors to either notify their parents or receive consent from them before having an abortion. The U ...

... sickle cell anemia. And one in 12 black Americans carry the sickle cell trait (http://www.medaccess.com/h_ child/sickle/sca_01.htm). This leaves a good chance that the parent with the trait can pass the defect onto offspring although their own health is not harmed. The cause of sickle cell anemia is rather simple but it leaves a life threatening affect. Anyone who carries the inherited trait for sickle cell anemia, but doesn't have the disorder, is actually protected from a severe form of malaria. This helped the children in countries where malaria was a problem, to be able to survive against that disease. Wh ...

... the responsibilities that come along with being sexual active. There are so many ways to prevent an unintended pregnancy. A very popular form of birth control are condoms. They are inexpensive and can be found anywhere, from your neighborhood drugstore to a vending machine at a public restroom. A condom is sheath that fits over the penis made of either latex, plastic or animal tissue. Condoms are also refered to as a rubber, safe or jimmy. It catches semen before, during and after a man ejaculates.It prevents pregnancy by preventing the sperm from entering the vagina. There is however a risk that you might get pregn ...

... are in may affect how you develop. For instance, if you have a talent for music, but have no way to acquire instruments, then it is doubtful that you will ever discover your talent with music. Physically, you may have great potential as a runner, but, if you do not get enough to eat, then it is doubtful that you will ever live up to your potential. Traits such as what you look like are inherited from your parents. Your potential is also inherited from your parents. Chromosomes contain the information of a person's potential height, potential strength against disease, and other physical characteristics. A human ...

... enacted by our legislators – not a single state had such unrestricted abortion before the S.C. decreed it to be national policy in 1973. But the consequence of this judicial decision are now abvious; since 1973 more than 15 million children have been aborted for various reason, none of them have seen their first glimse of light, that is 10 times the number of americans killed in all our nation's wars. Make no mistake though, abortion on demand is not a right granted by the constitution. Instead Roe vs. Wade had been a continuing reminder to the conscience of this nation. The nation reflects today that we can' ...

... has an occurrence of one in 2,500 live births (Wolf 1). The majority of the people in the United States do not understand the severity of cystic fibrosis and that it is a serious genetic disorder. PHYSIOLOGY AND CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS Clinical symptoms for CF are caused by the obstruction of organ ducts by the abnormal secretions. They consist of such symptoms as chronic obstructive airways disease, pancreatic insufficiency and malabsorption, high electrolyte concentrations in sweat, sterility due to vas deferens obliteration, and subclinical cirrhosis of the liver . However, as the severity of these symptoms v ...

... is life threatening, kills over a million people each year, and is a very elusive target for antimalarial drugs (Treatment of Malaria, 1996). Being a very specific disease, malaria is caused by only four protozoal parasites: Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium ovale, and Plasmodium malariae. Not only is the disease specific, but the parasites are too, with only 60 of 380 species of female Anopheles mosquitoes as vectors. With the exception of Plasmodia Malariae which may affect other primates, all parasites of malaria have only one host, Homo sapiens. Because some mosquitoes contain substances t ...

... that can cause this, they are nerotransmitters. In the case of a.d.d. they give proper messages or do not at all in times, it all differs at times and when this happens it causes a.d.d. to occur. There are a few different categories that a.d.d. can be broken down into one of them is A.D.H.D. which makes it very difficult for children to follow along in class. Usually children with A.D.H.D. are more problematic or harder to keep in line, because A.D.H..D. is involving much more hyperactive behavior. A.D.D. is a genetic disease, and in the case of A..D..D. If a child has it there is a more than good chance the ...

... seen all of these events come to pass, but instead, the child's mother had a partial-birth abortion and ended the infant's life forever. Partial-birth abortion is a topic that has caused a massive controversy in the past few years. In September, 1993, Brenda Pratt Shafer, a registered nurse with thirteen years of experience, was assigned by her nursing agency to an abortion clinic. Since Nurse Shafer considered herself to be "very pro-choice," she didn't think this assignment would be a problem. She was wrong. This is what Nurse Shafer saw: "I stood at the doctor's side and watched him perform a ...

... is also found in some higher animals such as mussels and sponges. Muscles, for instance, filter algae and other tiny organisms from the water and digest them within the cells of a special digestive gland. Intracellular digestion occurs even in some animals that consume large pieces of food; the prey captured by Hydra, for example, is partly digested in the coelenteron, a gut-like cavity, and the residue is completely digested in cells of the body wall. Scientists believe that intracellular digestion in organisms such as Hydra has evolved from such protozoans as amoebae and paramecia. In most higher animals dige ...