NAGAOKA, Niigata -- An 18-year-old high school girl has given birth to a baby boy at her school, but he soon died, police said.
Local police are questioning the girl over the details of her delivery and when her baby died, suspecting that she may be accused of murder.
The girl is believed to have delivered the baby in a women's restroom at a prefectural high school in Nagaoka she attends at about 5 p.m. on Tuesday, investigators said. Shortly after she gave birth, she called a friend on her mobile phone from the restroom asking for help. Alerted by the friend, teachers contacted a local hospital.
The baby had died by the time he was taken to hospital. The baby had been found in a lavatory basin. He weighed about 2,800 grams and an umbilical code was attached to his body.
The girl had attended classes until about 3 p.m. Teachers were unaware of her pregnancy, investigators said. (Mainichi)
June 6, 2007
How do you feel about this news?
Why couldn't she tell anybody around her?
Is it really true that her frinends, parents or teachers didn't notice she was pregnant?
Does the school do sex education enough?
What if you were in the situation like this...?
2007年6月28日木曜日
The Situation in The United States
The United States has the highest rates of teen pregnancy and births in the western industrialized world. Teen pregnancy costs the United States at least $9 billion annually.1
Thirty-one percent of young women become pregnant at least once before they reach the age of 202 -- about 750,000 a year.3 Eight in ten of these pregnancies are unintended4 and 81 percent are to unmarried teens.
The teen birth rate has declined slowly but steadily from 1991 to 2005 with a decline of 35 percent for those aged 15 to 19. These recent declines reverse the 23-percent rise in the teenage birth rate from 1986 to 1991. The largest decline since 1991 by race was for black women. The birth rate for black teens aged 15 to 19 fell 48 percent between 1991 to 2006. Hispanic teen birth rates declined 22 percent between 1991 and 2005. The rates of both Hispanics and blacks, however, remain higher than for other groups. Hispanic teens now have the highest teenage birth rates. Most teenagers giving birth before 1980 were married whereas most teens giving birth today are unmarried.5 For more detail, including state by state rates.
The younger a teenaged girl is when she has sex for the first time, the more likely she is to have had unwanted or non-voluntary sex. Close to four in ten girls who had first intercourse at 13 or 14 report it was either non-voluntary or unwanted.6
"teenpregnancy." teenpregnancy.org. 28 6 2006 . The National Campaign To Prevent Teen Pregnancy. 28 Jun 2007
2007年5月31日木曜日
NGO Says Legal Abortion in Brazil Would Be Life Saver to Poor Women
NGO Says Legal Abortion in Brazil Would Be Life Saver to Poor Women
Written by Cristiane Ribeiro
Friday, 30 September 2005
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Most of the women who suffer complications or die in Brazil due to botched abortions are poor, black, and uneducated. These data come from a study that is being done by the non-governmental organization Citizens' Human Rights Advocacy. The information was presented during a debate held Wednesday, September 28, in Rio de Janeiro to commemorate the Day for the Decriminalization of Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean. The executive director of the NGO, Gleyde Selma da Hora, points out that these results confirm that women from lower social classes are the ones who suffer most from abortions, while women from economically more privileged classes have access to safer means. "Poor women who undergo abortions already have an average of three children and maintain that they are unable to guarantee a decent life for an additional child; others claim they cannot count on their partners to share the responsibility; and there are also some who say that the condom ripped and the pregnancy was unwanted," da Hora observed.The participants in the debate are hoping for the legislature to approve a law that will allow pregnancies to be interrupted. At present, the National Congress is considering around 35 bills dealing with the legalization of abortion or the continuation of its prohibition. A file prepared by the Feminist Health Network indicates that approximately one million women submit to abortions in Brazil each year. This figure is based on the number of women who show up at public hospitals for post-abortion curettages. The file also suggests that abortions are the fourth largest cause of maternal deaths in the country and that, between 1999 and 2002, there were over two thousand female fatalities in public hospitals as a result of abortion-related complications.
Ribeiro , Cristiane . "NGO Says Legal Abortion in Brazil Would Be Life Saver to Poor Women ." NGO Says Legal Abortion in Brazil Would Be Life Saver to Poor Women . Friday, 30 September 2005 . 31 May 2007
Written by Cristiane Ribeiro
Friday, 30 September 2005
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Most of the women who suffer complications or die in Brazil due to botched abortions are poor, black, and uneducated. These data come from a study that is being done by the non-governmental organization Citizens' Human Rights Advocacy. The information was presented during a debate held Wednesday, September 28, in Rio de Janeiro to commemorate the Day for the Decriminalization of Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean. The executive director of the NGO, Gleyde Selma da Hora, points out that these results confirm that women from lower social classes are the ones who suffer most from abortions, while women from economically more privileged classes have access to safer means. "Poor women who undergo abortions already have an average of three children and maintain that they are unable to guarantee a decent life for an additional child; others claim they cannot count on their partners to share the responsibility; and there are also some who say that the condom ripped and the pregnancy was unwanted," da Hora observed.The participants in the debate are hoping for the legislature to approve a law that will allow pregnancies to be interrupted. At present, the National Congress is considering around 35 bills dealing with the legalization of abortion or the continuation of its prohibition. A file prepared by the Feminist Health Network indicates that approximately one million women submit to abortions in Brazil each year. This figure is based on the number of women who show up at public hospitals for post-abortion curettages. The file also suggests that abortions are the fourth largest cause of maternal deaths in the country and that, between 1999 and 2002, there were over two thousand female fatalities in public hospitals as a result of abortion-related complications.
Ribeiro , Cristiane . "NGO Says Legal Abortion in Brazil Would Be Life Saver to Poor Women ." NGO Says Legal Abortion in Brazil Would Be Life Saver to Poor Women . Friday, 30 September 2005 . 31 May 2007
2007年5月30日水曜日
fetus
As Rina says in the previous article, people who get an abortion have individual reasons. I agree with the opinion that in some cases, abortion should be approved.
But think about the baby. We must respect a life which has just started to beat in mother's womb.
Some young people just think like "when you got pregnant, then you can abort baby, and that's it."
Isn't it too cruel and ethically wrong?
If your condition is not good to raise baby at that moment, then you have to be very careful about contraception. Otherwise a life would be just wasted. Although there are some reasons to have abortion, people should not disvalue fetus' life.
You also have to know that abortion is dangerous to women's body.
To know detailed information about fetus and pregnancy.
http://www.justthefacts.org/
But think about the baby. We must respect a life which has just started to beat in mother's womb.
Some young people just think like "when you got pregnant, then you can abort baby, and that's it."
Isn't it too cruel and ethically wrong?
If your condition is not good to raise baby at that moment, then you have to be very careful about contraception. Otherwise a life would be just wasted. Although there are some reasons to have abortion, people should not disvalue fetus' life.
You also have to know that abortion is dangerous to women's body.
To know detailed information about fetus and pregnancy.
http://www.justthefacts.org/
2007年5月17日木曜日
OPPOSING SIDES
Abortion should be approved because there are people that have abortion and terminate the fetus. Such reasons could be such as the issues of perceived immaturity, financial stabikity, and because of the health problems.
These days there are some kdis that do not get any education about having a child, which results in having a baby. Even though they are given a new life, they still have not got to the age that they are ready to raise a child. If the under-aged mother with no education raise a child, then the child that was raised would also be an uneducated child which ends up doing the same thing.
Also there are people that habe to terminate the fetus because of an economical problem. Eben though the mother and the father loved each other and was given a child, if the two didn't have enough savings to bear and raise a child, then they will have to terminate the child. There is a fact that people not only terminate their child that they made, but don't have enough financial savings.
The last opinion is that some people have abortion because of their health problems. If the mother's body is not healthy enough, it is dangerous for her to bear a child, even though they have enough financilal savings.
As a conclusion, I think abortion should be approved because there are many reasons people have.
♥ rina
These days there are some kdis that do not get any education about having a child, which results in having a baby. Even though they are given a new life, they still have not got to the age that they are ready to raise a child. If the under-aged mother with no education raise a child, then the child that was raised would also be an uneducated child which ends up doing the same thing.
Also there are people that habe to terminate the fetus because of an economical problem. Eben though the mother and the father loved each other and was given a child, if the two didn't have enough savings to bear and raise a child, then they will have to terminate the child. There is a fact that people not only terminate their child that they made, but don't have enough financial savings.
The last opinion is that some people have abortion because of their health problems. If the mother's body is not healthy enough, it is dangerous for her to bear a child, even though they have enough financilal savings.
As a conclusion, I think abortion should be approved because there are many reasons people have.
♥ rina
The reason i chose this topic★
I chose this topic because i heard a story about a girl who got pregnant and aborted her baby. It made me think about this topic "abortion" seriously.
what's your reason??
what's your reason??
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