Sample paper
Drug Legalization, Pregnancy and Gender Roles: Writer's Choice
- Subject
- Gender & Women's Studies
- Type
- Paper
- Citation style
- MLA
- Length
- 3 pages
About this sample
The paper responds to three prompts: whether drugs should be legalized and how that would affect reported use, how pregnancy and childbirth reinforce ideas of sex and gender, and how reproductive technologies such as IVF influence those ideas. It also addresses the Eighth Amendment and the right to life of the unborn. The sections are organized as answers to the three questions in sequence, with a single cited source on IVF and a Works Cited page.
- Legalization of drugs
- Pregnancy and conceptions of sex and gender
- IVF and culture media
- Eighth Amendment and the unborn
How it opens
Q.1 Do you believe in the legalization of drugs? All drugs or certain categories? Do you believe there would be an increase in the number of people reporting use?
Every drug should be legalized for profit because the projected annual revenue ($400 billion) is ending up in the pockets of criminal lords and society should not be comfortable with drug lords having power over this billion dollar industry. The current drug market is unsanitary, unlicensed, unethical, and cannot exclude violence.
Indeed, there will be an increase in the number of people reporting use, but the legalization of all drugs will result in revenues that can be utilized in financing psychiatrists and treatment clinics to counteract addiction. Hygienic labs and regulation will minimize the incidences of overdose.
Q.2 How does pregnancy/childbirth reinforce conceptualizations of sex and gender, of womanhood and/or manhood, in the USA or elsewhere? Second, how do reproductive technologies - like the medicalization of childbirth in general, or IVF, in particular - influence those conceptualizations?
A new-born is assigned the male/female sex centered on their genitals. As soon as that happens, the baby’s gender is deduced. A child with a penis is male, and a baby with a vulva is a female. Most people in society believe this should be questioned or investigated.
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