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| +1 Autumn | If a transsexual has a sex change operation, does male/female status change legally? |
"When the transsexual has been operated on or sometimes
even before any operation, when he or she has decided to live and work
as a member of the opposite sex, the change of the sex status in a legal
manner is urgently requested. It often takes the form of asking for a
new or a change or amendment of the birth certificate.
In practice, and in the United States, much depends upon the state in which the applicant for a legal change of sex status bad been born. In some states, it proved to be easy and merely required filling out some form and sending it to the respective Bureau of Vital Statistics, with a doctor's certificate. Some few states promptly issued a new birth certificate with the name and gender changed accordingly. In other states, a more complicated procedure was required, namely, a court order. Sometimes that took so much time and money that the applicant gave up and continued to live in his or her "new sex" illegally, hoping that there might never be the need for a birth certificate, for instance, for the purpose of getting married. Again, in other states, the request was such a novel and unprecedented one that delaying tactics were resorted to or the application was denied, unless proof could be rendered that the original certificate had been issued in error. Such is, of course, not possible in transsexualism (at least not yet), only in clear cases of hermaphroditism." from : http://www.symposion.com/ijt/benjamin/chap_09.htm |
| +1 Katie S | What states still require blood tests for marriage license? | This is what I found on blood tests for different states. From what I can tell only 4 states. plus DC, still require a blood test before marriage. http://www.nolo.com/article.cfm/ObjectID/586AC0B4-0435-4D7C-BD06608979A6CBF9/catID/697DBAFE-20FF-467A-9E9395985EE7E825/118/304/192/ART/ |
| Emily G, Mandi, and Brittany +1 each | % of abortions that are requested by women who have already had one |
The answer is about 50%.
According to the Division of Reproductive Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, In 2000, of women who obtained an abortion and whose number of previous abortions was adequately reported, 53% were reported to have obtained an abortion for the first time. Eighteen percent of women were reported to have had two or more previous abortions (Table 13).
The statistic I found on
http://www.guttmacher.org was that 47% of women who have
had an abortion have had at least one abortion previously.
Women who have more than
one abortion (representing about 45% of all abortions)
are more likely to require public assistance, in part
because they are also more likely to become single
parents.
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| Anna Ing +1 | What are the most recent stats (CDC)on syphilis in the US and in NC? |
The CDC reports that in 2006, there were
over 36,000 cases of syphilis, to include primary and secondary
syphilis. Most of the cases were found in people between 20 and 39
years old. Last year, North Carolina has about 3.6 cases of
syphilis per 100,000 people, which ranks it as 14th out of the 50
states, DC, and US territories.
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| Tiffany Haley +1 | Is there any relation between leprosy and syphilis as far as treatment and symptoms? | While it was first believed that syphilis was leprosy in the fourteenth century, it was soon proven to be two different diseases. In the beginning, it was though that mercury could indeed cure leprosy and syphilis, but late deemed ineffective on leprosy victims. While at first the sores may appear the same, in the end they end up different. http://www.inklingmagazine.com/articles/the-funny-syphilis/ http://www.archaeology.org/9701/newsbriefs/syphilis.html |
| Autumn Beam +1 | The T/F test stated that 80% of all infertility can be related to chlamydial infections. Can you find recent evidence to support or refute that claim? |
This website quotes one British doctor who says there is no link
and then another British doctor who says there is a link between the
STD and infertility, but only to about 1/3.
"Nationally, he believes that up to a third of all IVF treatments
are because of the damage caused by Chlamydia - that's somewhere
between 5,000-10,000 couples"
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