social issue step 2 - outline

A. Maternal Mortality Rates (MMR) and Infant Mortality Rates (IMR) are largely preventable, and are common in developing countries.

B. Prevention methods range in ideas, but the best is sending midwives to intervene to treat and cure mothers and infants, and to educate women in these countries to help as well.

C. Therefore, through medical intervention, the high maternal mortality rates and high infant mortality rates will decline, without the need for unnecessary and artificial fertility treatments.

I. First Body Paragraph: Medical help/intervention is a method that will cater to the needs and preferences of the mother, thereby decreasing the chances of maternal mortality

A. Medical intervention with midwives will decrease the chances of highly preventable conditions.

1) Direct Maternal Death (eg. Hemorrhage, Eclampsia)

2) Indirect Maternal Death (eg. Malaria, HIV/AIDS)

B. Sending midwives will allow women to learn how to give birth, and care for their infants.

1) Family Planning: educating mothers.

2) Teaching women native to these countries how to be midwives, and help other women.

C. Sending midwives to educate mothers to space apart their pregnancies.

1) Two factors consistently correlate with high birth rates: poverty, and poor education.

2) Preventing overpopulation in impoverished regions.

II. Second Body Paragraph: Medical help being sent to these countries will decrease the rates of infant mortality.

A. Giving medical assistance to the unhealthy mother during pregnancy will increase the chances of infant survival.

1) Most medical causes of IMR are preventable with healthy mother.

2) 60-80% of infants die from low birth weight.

B. Medical assistance for environmental factors.

1) 99% infant deaths occur in developing countries

2) Access to clean water, and medical help for infants affected by pollutants such as CO.

C. Teaching mothers postpartum care for their infants will decrease the IMR.

1) Showing mothers their infant’s needs.

2) Recognizing warning signs of illness and illness prevention.

III. Third Body Paragraph: Artificial contraceptives are not a reliable method to decrease the high rates of infant and maternal mortality in African countries.

A. Contraception doesn’t cure the problem, it merely masks it.

1) Difficult to 100% rely on something that does not have 100% accuracy

2) Does not cure poverty or the MMR or IMR, merely stops some infants from being born.

B. Contraception is unnatural and causes a variety of other health-related problems.

1) Many side effects of contraception with no medical intervention to help when effects do occur (eg. Strokes, breast cancer, gallbladder disease)

2) “The Pill” alone fuels a $2.8 billion industry, without women’s health in mind.

C. Contraception encourages dependency on outside sources.

1) It requires a long-term outside sponsor, such as donations from the developed world.

2) Educating women and midwives in their native countries will help them develop.

Conclusion:

A. The best way to prevent the high MMR and IMR are to take into account the causes of the problem: to prevent pregnancy-related complications, and decrease overpopulation in impoverished nations.

B. Medical intervention will decrease MMR, and educate women on their own bodies, which will in turn decrease the high IMR, which will leave no need for artificial contraceptives.

C. The biggest aid that this preventative method can give is decreasing the effects of poverty.

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