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McCain has voted consistently against women's health, and he supports overturning the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Roe v. Wade. Following is a summary of his positions on women's issues.
McCain Opposed Equal Pay Bill for Women, Said They ‘Need Education and Training’ Instead. McCain skipped a vote on the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act that would ensure women have the opportunity to recover back pay for discrimination once they discover it. If he had been there to vote, he said he would have voted against it and that women “need education and training” rather than an equal pay bill. The bill addressed a recent Supreme Court decision that said Steelworker Lilly Ledbetter could not recover back pay for 19 years of discrimination at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. because she had not discovered the unequal pay until she retired. The bill would amend the 1964 Civil Rights Act to allow employees to file charges of pay discrimination within 180 days of the last received paycheck affected by the discrimination. [Source: aflcio.org; H.R. 2831, Vote 110, 4/23/08; Associated Press, 4/28/08]
McCain Voted to Gut the Family and Medical Leave Act. In 1993, before finally voting for the Family and Medical Leave Act, McCain voted to jeopardize leave for millions of workers by gutting the bill. He voted to suspend the Family and Medical Leave Act unless the federal government certified that compliance would not increase business expenses or provide financial assistance to businesses to cover any related costs. [Source: aflcio.org S.Amdt. 16, S. 5, Vote 7, 2/4/93; H.R. 1, Vote 11, 2/4/93]
Source for the following information: Planned Parenthood
McCain opposed spending $100 million to prevent unintended and teen pregnancies. In 2005, McCain voted NO to allocate $100 million to expand access to preventive health care services that reduce the numbers of unintended and teen pregnancies and reduce the number of abortions.
McCain opposed legislation requiring that abstinence-only programs be medically accurate and scientifically based.
McCain voted NO on legislation that would help reduce the number of teen pregnancies by providing funding for programs to teach comprehensive, medically accurate sexuality education and other programs to prevent unintended teen pregnancies.
McCain opposed Title X, the nation's family planning program.
In 1990, McCain voted NO on legislation to extend the Title X federal family planning program, which provides low-income and uninsured women and families with health care services ranging from breast and cervical cancer screening to birth control.
McCain opposed requiring insurance coverage of prescription birth control.
In 2003, McCain voted NO on legislation to improve the availability of contraceptives for women and to require insurance coverage of prescription birth control.
McCain opposes comprehensive sex education.
In an interview aboard the "Straight Talk Express," McCain struggled to answer questions about comprehensive sex education and HIV prevention. He also stated that he supported "the president's policy" on sex education.
McCain unsure where he stands on government funding for contraception.
"Whether I support government funding for them or not, I don't know," McCain said about contraceptives.
McCain opposed repealing the "global gag rule."
In 2005, McCain voted NO on legislation to overturn the "global gag rule," which bars foreign nongovernmental organizations from receiving U.S. family planning assistance if the organization (using its own, non-U.S. funds) provides abortion services or information or advocates for pro-choice laws and policies in its own country.
McCain supports overturning Roe v. Wade.
In February 2007, the AP quoted McCain stating, "I do not support Roe v. Wade. It should be overturned." In May 2007, he reiterated his desire to overturn Roe v. Wade during an appearance on Meet the Press stating, "My position has been consistently in my voting record, pro-life, and I continue to maintain that position and voting record."
Abortion is an explosive topic However Equal Pay is common sense an McCain is against it, a Vote for Mccain is a vote to take a step backward in Womens rights
Actually My question is what it is, I saw something I didn't understand and I "questioned it" I don't work for any campaign and my life will probably be the same on 1/21/09 as it is today.
I am not sexist so care if it's a Man or a Woman and I am not Racist so i don't care if it's a Black or White I want the Job Done right by someone who knows he works for us and not the other way around, That can't happen with an "entitled" president.
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| • 3 Page essay about teenage pregnancy? |
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I have to write a 2-3 page essay about teen pregnancy for health and Ive got some information but Im looking for more, and I dont really know how to keep the essay "flowing" if you get what I mean? Ive got the introduction down, but I dont know where to go from there (it says this: Teenage Pregnancy is a big problem in society these days. Statistically, 24 Australian females ages 15-19 fall pregnant. But in the Netherlands, where sex education is a big part of their schooling, only 7 out of 1, 000 teenagers fall pregnant. These statistics show that education is big part of this issue) and I dont know what to write after that because theres just so many things to say about teen pregnancy! so could you help me out please?
oops, I meant 24 out of 1,000. thanks for reminding me lol
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| • How do you think having Universal Health Care in the US would effect US domestic adoption? |
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I think that it might give biological families a chance at staying together, and if that fails, then it might give adoptive families the help they need. I am not anti-adoption, but I do want to see the number of domestic infant adoptions decrease; I want to see those that are unnecessary drop to zero.
Having health care paid for isn’t the only hurdle that many young women need to cross in order to keep their child with them, but it is a “biggie”, and one that played a major role in the surrender of my only child, so I believe it is an important issue. As it played out the PAPs paid for the prenatal and hospital bills which I was too embarrassed to ask my parents to pay for because I felt that I was “bad” for getting pregnant and not being financially able to pay for everything upfront. Actually, I probably would have been able to but the adoption facilitator neglected to tell me how to get that help – and yes, I do think that if they claim to be counseling women, they should be including this information.
Wiki gives an interesting overview on universal healthcare worldwide:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care ….and if this is true it looks like the tax payers are funding universal health care (via US war funding) for Iraq and Afghanistan, which is probably right considering we’re over there blowing arms and legs off of children.
I get really tired of people on this board bickering over where someone – a teen mother or an adoptive mother – gets money for assistance in raising a child – a US citizen. I think the tax payers should cough it up either way. Universal health care – should the US government ever deem us worthy – would mean help for all families.
ETA: I agree with you Anglecuddle. Our govt reps are sitting pretty. I think that's why they're fine with the status quo.
I know that all countries that do have universal health care don't have the same quality of universal health care. I'm sorry that Canada's doesn't seem to be too good.
ETA: There are around 47 million Americans without health care. Having your favorite doctor as your physician is a huge luxury; many people in this country don't even have a doctor.
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i know this isnt mental health- sorry. problem is this person im telling this to is a big part of my life as he is friends with my friends and i always see him and it hurts me how he is 'my friend' but is cold.should i change anything about this? does there seem to be anything wrong with it? is it hard to follow? do you think that after he knows all this information he will look down at me?this letter im sending to is not to VJ - it's to my best friend who told me not to go out with him because he wasnt the same religion
letter:
Well I realised that our friendship just went spiralling downwards after the whole incident with when I dated VJ. I know that it was a year ago, but it’s always on the back of my mind, how we were best friends and then suddenly things became cold. I was stupid and I didn’t tell you the things I should have, and I know now is a long time afterwards I’m sorry for that but if you could still hear me out it would really help
Fact is that I miss our friendship and what is was, and I feel now it is strained and hesitant.
When I went out with VJ, I guess I was at one of the lowest points of my life. I felt lost, unloved and I guess curious. I had things going on back at home, I felt alienated from the world as I didn’t feel like I had the opportunity to have a life like everyone around me because of how many boundaries I had. It may seem small, but when it’s in your life with you every day, it becomes an issue which hurts pretty bad Dating may not seem like such a big deal to you, as I’d been taught that it was forbidden. It was hard for me to understand why I couldn’t like everyone else – and I guess as just becoming a teen I wanted to be allowed to be reckless and stupid, to have feelings and experiment – but I couldn’t and everything happening around me told me I couldn’t. I guess all I wanted was to be loved and at that point almost anyone who would come along I would accept because I was blind and hurt. I felt no one was interested, I felt ugly and insecure. In the back of my mind I knew what I was doing was wrong, but I just wanted to satisfy how isolated I felt from the world and how much I wanted to fill that hole. I knew that you knew what I was doing wrong, and to be honest with you you were one of the only people who was speaking sense telling me I was stupid for what I was doing – but I was tired of people controlling me, tired of being rejected and telling me what to do that I pushed you aside. I’m sorry for being stubborn and not telling you this for so long – I really don’t want to think that it has damaged any chance of us being friends like we were again. I guess at that point – my heart was open to everything attacking at it and hurting me – and my eyes were shut to everyone else, mainly you. You were angry that I told everyone and not you, I guess I did tell people and all you wanted to know was that I still could turn to you and I still did care about you and you didn’t understand how someone you were so close to was acting so different to who you thought they were and you retaliated by ignoring me. The other people I told were people who told me they were happy for me, and at that time I felt like I was accepted and that finding a guy was the solution to everything – and I didn’t want to tell people who knew the truth and would disagree, because it would lead me back to that dark hole I believed my life was. I’m sorry for doing that to you and being a stubborn twit. I’m sorry that we haven’t been able to build the great friendship we had – but all I want to do is to ask whether you are still genuinely mad at me for any reason.
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i know this isnt mental health- sorry. problem is this person im telling this to is a big part of my life as he is friends with my friends and i always see him and it hurts me how he is 'my friend' but is cold.should i change anything about this? does there seem to be anything wrong with it? is it hard to follow? do you think that after he knows all this information he will look down at me?this letter im sending to is not to VJ - it's to my best friend who told me not to go out with him because he wasnt the same religion
letter:
Well I realised that our friendship just went spiralling downwards after the whole incident with when I dated VJ. I know that it was a year ago, but it’s always on the back of my mind, how we were best friends and then suddenly things became cold. I was stupid and I didn’t tell you the things I should have, and I know now is a long time afterwards I’m sorry for that but if you could still hear me out it would really help
Fact is that I miss our friendship and what is was, and I feel now it is strained and hesitant.
When I went out with VJ, I guess I was at one of the lowest points of my life. I felt lost, unloved and I guess curious. I had things going on back at home, I felt alienated from the world as I didn’t feel like I had the opportunity to have a life like everyone around me because of how many boundaries I had. It may seem small, but when it’s in your life with you every day, it becomes an issue which hurts pretty bad Dating may not seem like such a big deal to you, as I’d been taught that it was forbidden. It was hard for me to understand why I couldn’t like everyone else – and I guess as just becoming a teen I wanted to be allowed to be reckless and stupid, to have feelings and experiment – but I couldn’t and everything happening around me told me I couldn’t. I guess all I wanted was to be loved and at that point almost anyone who would come along I would accept because I was blind and hurt. I felt no one was interested, I felt ugly and insecure. In the back of my mind I knew what I was doing was wrong, but I just wanted to satisfy how isolated I felt from the world and how much I wanted to fill that hole. I knew that you knew what I was doing wrong, and to be honest with you you were one of the only people who was speaking sense telling me I was stupid for what I was doing – but I was tired of people controlling me, tired of being rejected and telling me what to do that I pushed you aside. I’m sorry for being stubborn and not telling you this for so long – I really don’t want to think that it has damaged any chance of us being friends like we were again. I guess at that point – my heart was open to everything attacking at it and hurting me – and my eyes were shut to everyone else, mainly you. You were angry that I told everyone and not you, I guess I did tell people and all you wanted to know was that I still could turn to you and I still did care about you and you didn’t understand how someone you were so close to was acting so different to who you thought they were and you retaliated by ignoring me. The other people I told were people who told me they were happy for me, and at that time I felt like I was accepted and that finding a guy was the solution to everything – and I didn’t want to tell people who knew the truth and would disagree, because it would lead me back to that dark hole I believed my life was. I’m sorry for doing that to you and being a stubborn twit. I’m sorry that we haven’t been able to build the great friendship we had – but all I want to do is to ask whether you are still genuinely mad at me for any reason.
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i know this isnt mental health- sorry. problem is this person im telling this to is a big part of my life as he is friends with my friends and i always see him and it hurts me how he is 'my friend' but is cold.should i change anything about this? does there seem to be anything wrong with it? is it hard to follow? do you think that after he knows all this information he will look down at me?this letter im sending to is not to VJ - it's to my best friend who told me not to go out with him because he wasnt the same religion
letter:
Well I realised that our friendship just went spiralling downwards after the whole incident with when I dated VJ. I know that it was a year ago, but it’s always on the back of my mind, how we were best friends and then suddenly things became cold. I was stupid and I didn’t tell you the things I should have, and I know now is a long time afterwards I’m sorry for that but if you could still hear me out it would really help
Fact is that I miss our friendship and what is was, and I feel now it is strained and hesitant.
When I went out with VJ, I guess I was at one of the lowest points of my life. I felt lost, unloved and I guess curious. I had things going on back at home, I felt alienated from the world as I didn’t feel like I had the opportunity to have a life like everyone around me because of how many boundaries I had. It may seem small, but when it’s in your life with you every day, it becomes an issue which hurts pretty bad Dating may not seem like such a big deal to you, as I’d been taught that it was forbidden. It was hard for me to understand why I couldn’t like everyone else – and I guess as just becoming a teen I wanted to be allowed to be reckless and stupid, to have feelings and experiment – but I couldn’t and everything happening around me told me I couldn’t. I guess all I wanted was to be loved and at that point almost anyone who would come along I would accept because I was blind and hurt. I felt no one was interested, I felt ugly and insecure. In the back of my mind I knew what I was doing was wrong, but I just wanted to satisfy how isolated I felt from the world and how much I wanted to fill that hole. I knew that you knew what I was doing wrong, and to be honest with you you were one of the only people who was speaking sense telling me I was stupid for what I was doing – but I was tired of people controlling me, tired of being rejected and telling me what to do that I pushed you aside. I’m sorry for being stubborn and not telling you this for so long – I really don’t want to think that it has damaged any chance of us being friends like we were again. I guess at that point – my heart was open to everything attacking at it and hurting me – and my eyes were shut to everyone else, mainly you. You were angry that I told everyone and not you, I guess I did tell people and all you wanted to know was that I still could turn to you and I still did care about you and you didn’t understand how someone you were so close to was acting so different to who you thought they were and you retaliated by ignoring me. The other people I told were people who told me they were happy for me, and at that time I felt like I was accepted and that finding a guy was the solution to everything – and I didn’t want to tell people who knew the truth and would disagree, because it would lead me back to that dark hole I believed my life was. I’m sorry for doing that to you and being a stubborn twit. I’m sorry that we haven’t been able to build the great friendship we had – but all I want to do is to ask whether you are still genuinely mad at me for any reason.
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| • Voting Question: any infor for people over 40 who want to date? |
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the world approaches dating and relationships as if it's an issue for young persons, people in their teens, twenties and thirties. I have yet to see a book, or information source about people who are 45-60 who are considering dating, or wanting a relationship. You know we can't approach life as if we are back in our 20's We're grown, finished raising kids and ready to step out and live our own life. Clubs don't contain people our age, and many of us have some sort of health issue whether diabetic, arthritic, etc... so even for those who have a handicap sort of, there is no information out there for us to find,meet, and have relationships.... Can anyone out there help?
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| • Substance abuse and mental health info? |
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Substance abuse and mental health
Community Resources
Can you list any information on types of local community resources that are available for teens who are facing this issue??
5star for a really helpful answer
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| • Please correct this essay, title is "On-line Child Health Information System"? |
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The issues on the emotional, physical,and behavioral aspects of the child are very important such as obesity, smoking, car safety seats, infections, depression and teen suicide, vaccine, sports, illness, nutrition advice, injury prevention. It is important that child and parents can get information to help them to handle these issues. This research develops an on-line child health information web, providing proper information of child health for child and parents in order to help the child to get rid of the health problem.
Three steps are used for developing child health information system (1) assessment of the needs of the child and parent , (2) development of the web-based learning platform by system analysis, system design and information management in SQL sever database, (3) online questionnaires are used to get the information of the needs of the user.
We have established a web-based system providing integrated accurate and reliable multimedia health information in child health.
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| • Please correct this essay, title is "On-line Child Health Information System"? |
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The issues on the emotional, physical,and behavioral aspects of the child are very important such as obesity, smoking, car safety seats, infections, depression and teen suicide, vaccine, sports, illness, nutrition advice, injury prevention. It is important that child and parents can get information to help them to handle these issues. This research develops an on-line child health information web, providing proper information of child health for child and parents in order to help the child to get rid of the health problem.
Three steps are used for developing child health information system (1) assessment of the needs of the child and parent , (2) development of the web-based learning platform by system analysis, system design and information management in SQL sever database, (3) online questionnaires are used to get the information of the needs of the user.
We have established a web-based system providing integrated accurate and reliable multimedia health information in child health.
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| • What's the easiet way for teens to get answers to questions related to sex and sexual health? |
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I'm a grad student doing some internship work for an organization that is about to launch a pilot program for teens. The program seeks to make information on sex and sexual health available to teens. I would like to know what methods, resources, sites, ect. teens use when they have questions on such issues. The program has a ton of great information but we want to know what the most effective method of dissemination is. Do kids want info from other kids? Do they already use specific websites? The main question is basically: What could the organization do to enable kids to access to information on sexual health?
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| • cervix and mons pubis related questions.? |
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this is kinda embarrassing but im having a hard time finding information elsewhere.
when i last visited my gynecologist she pointed out that my cervix was placed kinda far back and made a comment about pregnancy. i didnt hear well, but im fairly sure she said this could cause me back problems whenever i do become pregnant. can anyone verify this please?
secondly, i feel my mons pubis is rather on the large size. my gynecologist has never said anything about it and my husband didnt even notice until i pointed it out and explained that it makes me really self concious. i realize its not a severe health issue or anything, its more for my own benefit. my problem is i cant figure out why this is, im about 5'4 and 125lbs so im not exactly overweight and never have been, im in my late teens so age doesnt play a factor. could it possibly be because that's just where the majority of my weight goes? (lipo is not an option)
any insight on either subject would be greatly appreciated.
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| • Looking for endocrine related information? |
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Hello. I broke my ankle in July of 2005. Because I didn't have insurance with my employer, I had to go through the state charity health system. They've performed 2 surgeries so far, which included bone graphing, eight screws, and one plate-and I have still yet to heal, as in, there has not been a unity with the broken bits.
Upon doing some research online, I realized that there might be endocrine issues to blame. I spoke to the ortho-doctor today about this and he thinks there might be a strong chance as well-though this isn't his field and etc. He suggested I see my regular GP to refer me to a specialist, and to keep doing research.
Some of my symptoms include: Precocious Puberty(age 4), Hirsutism, hyperglycmia(sp?), a very large weight gain in my teens(about sixty pounds in under a year, depression was diagnosed), a broken foot in third grade that took a long time to heal(pictures still show that there was no unity).
What could cause this? Anyone?
I am also curious if there could be any tie to a genetic disorder that's in my family, Idiopathic Braccial Plexcitis Neuropathy, which caused 2 of my sisters to have muscle deterioation and semi-paralysis in their arms after having children.
My mother has hirsutism as well.
Also, I'm 28 years old.
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| • How Do You Use Household Products As Drugs..? |
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Hi.
I'm enrolled in a Health class this summer and one of my projects is to explore teenage household product abuse.
I have no experience with these issues.
I just need to know how teens use cough syrup, aerosol cans, whipped cream, paint, and other things that I may not know about.
This is for my classes so I would appreciate useful information.
Thanks a Bunch.
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