Monitoring the Medicalization of Women

Child is a gift from God. Every parent hopes for a healthy child. However, abnormalities in the fetus growth becoming common nowadays. These may be due to physical, radiation and chemical factors. These factors will cause deformities such as genetic mutation which causes mental retardation, abnormal body buildup and other conditions which bring a lot of troubles in the future to the child themselves and their parents. Modern technologies and innovations in the medical field had developed a method to detect the abnormality before delivery and prevent this future tragedy to happen. This method is known as prenatal screening. There are several advantages and disadvantages of prenatal screening.

Giving birth to a baby is the most amazing and miraculous experiences for parents and their loved ones. Every woman’s birth story is different and full of joy. Furthermore, the process from the moment a woman knows that she’s pregnant to being in the delivering room is very critical to both her and the newborn baby. Prenatal care is extremely important and it can impact greatly the quality of life of the baby. In this paper, the topic of giving birth will be discussed thoroughly by describing the stories of two mothers who gave birth in different decades and see how their prenatal cares are different from each other with correlation of the advancement of modern medicine between four decades.

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The paper introduces a sophisticated analysis of the maternity-related issues as well as childbearing policies in the USA. The American documentary “Born in the USA” serves as a material for the study. It is the first public television documentary to provide an in-depth look at childbirth in America. It offers a fascinating overview of birthing, beginning with the early days of our country when almost everyone knew of mothers or babies who died in childbirth. As medicine advanced, maternal and infant mortality rates dropped radically. Hospitals were soon promoted as the safe, modern way to have a baby. The film reveals some crucial specifications of pregnancy, giving birth to a child and raising an offspring in the United States. Specifically, it verifies a general assumption, according to which American obstetricians possess a worldwide recognition, due to their proficiency (Wagner, 2008, p. 4). Moreover, the paper reviews such issues as pregnancy

In the mid 1930’s childbirth was extremely dangerous and high percentages of women and their babies died sooner or later after birth. As people took notice, medicine took a lot of steps to lower the mortality rates. A lot of deliveries moved from the homes of people to the hospitals with more safer conditions of birth. Throughout the years, hosptials worked on getting their public sanitation, public nutrition and better control of some deadly chronic diseases. By the 1940s medicines surgical techniques and antibodies improved so much that it made the hospital that much more safer for people to deliver children. Medical Doctor, Elizabeth Eden, stated “By the 1950s, routine maternity care, originally designed to improve safety, had become almost too rigid. For example, the fear of infection, a major killer of mothers and babies, led to such practices as taking away all a woman's personal belongings when she entered the hospital; administering large, uncomfortable enemas; prohibiting fathers and other loved ones from entering the maternity area; keeping babies in nurseries, away from their mothers; and handling babies as little as possible. At the time, bottle-feeding was believed to be more sanitary and superior in almost every way to breast-feeding.” Medical Doctor, Elizabeth Eden also stated “The 1960s was a time when national and international organizations were founded to

Childbirth is one of the greatest privileges on the earth anyone could have and we, as women, should feel proud to be major contributors for it. Thus, a mother has to play a key role in aiding the healthcare workers to mitigate the health crisis associated with childbirth by performing her duties faithfully. One such associated health crisis is “Premature (preterm) birth” which occurs when the baby is born too early, before 37 weeks of gestational period (CDC, 2015). The rate of preterm birth ranges from 5% to 18% of babies born across 184 countries (WHO, 2015).

Premature births are one of the numerous things that everybody has a supposition on. Premature births have continuously been and will most likely dependably be a dubious point in which everybody won't concur upon. Amidst the discussion, two gatherings have developed. These gatherings are alluded to as genius life and professional decision. Star life supporters assert that life starts at origination; thusly, premature birth at any phase in the pregnancy is kill. Master decision supporters, then again, assert that it is the lady's entitlement to pick what she does with her body. Star life and master decision advocates contrast in many their suppositions, particularly, concerning when life starts, affects premature births have on the mother, and how legislative issues and religion assume a part in premature births. Premature births have been around for a huge number of years. Be that as it may, in the eighteen hundred premature births in the Assembled States wound up noticeably unlawful. Because of the absence of therapeutic training, techniques and surgeries, for example, premature births were exceptionally risky. As medicinal headways were made, ladies still needed to depend on back rear way premature births which often brought about the damage of thousands of ladies. Premature births stayed unlawful, despite the therapeutic headways grant to the way that doctors did not have any desire to impart their patients to different professionals. The American Restorative Affiliation expressed that premature births weren't right and perilous. In this way, as per the National Fetus Removal Organization, premature births were then made into a “doctor” rehearse because they could be performed legitimately keeping in mind the end goal to spare the lady's life. It was not until the point when 1973 that premature births were made legitimate in the Assembled States because of an Incomparable Court choice in Roe versus Swim by decision that "Americans' entitlement to protection incorporated the privilege of a lady to choose whether to have kids and the privilege of a lady and her specialist to settle on that choice without

On April 221, 2017, at 1602hrs, VA police received a Duress alarm in 2F511. Investigation revealed that the Veteran was upset needing an appointment to get transition lenses. VA Police made contact with the Veteran at the Woman’s Clinic to obtain his side off the story. The Veteran became standoffish with officer and kept stating there was no problem. Officer’s obtained his information and remained in the area. While talking to the staff the Veteran walked by and stated “fucking pussies”, several time. VA police attempted to get voluntary compliance from the veteran to leave the facility. The Veteran went down stairs and went to Desk A and talked to an RN. Officers attempted to get the Veteran to leave at this point. While one officer talked

Mission: Advance the health and safety of women and girls with a focus on disease prevention and wellness. (cdc.gov/women)

Women have been fighting for the same rights and privileges of men for over a hundred years. The majority of these rights dealing with the basic autonomy of their own bodies and the right to make decisions about reproduction. The role of women has been seen as homemaker, caretaker, and ultimately Mother. Having children and raising children is often seen as the primary job of women in the home. However, in the early 20th century having a great number of children became a public health concern among women who were having multiple births. The number of women who died during childbirth in 1900 was six to nine in every 1000, while one in five children died within their first five years. (Achievements in Public Health, 2000) This was not seen as an epidemic, however, except by one woman, Margaret Sanger. Sanger believed that women deserved the right to choose and control their reproduction while offering safe methods of birth control. This paper examines the life of Margaret Sanger, provide information about the barriers she encounters during her work, and give insight to the contributions she has made to public health.

Women in today’s society have a lot more power and say in what they can or cannot do.

People -regardless of race, religion, or age- have the right to food, shelter, and adequate health care. However, due to the changes in the Texas Women’s Health Program, many women may not be able to afford the expensive of health care. Planned Parenthood is no longer covered by the low-income state insurance plan because the organization offers abortion services (Texas Women’s). Politicians, such as Texas Governor Rick Perry argue that the revised program is “great news for Texas women” (Kou). Unfortunately Perry is no different than Carl N. Karcher; both men believe they made “Progress” in their decisions (Schlosser, 28). Karcher only sees the “Progress” being made in his hometown and how the success can benefit him, while Perry only sees a way to segregate clinics which are pro-choice and not how it affects the female population of the state. While the program offers a list of clinics that are covered, many of them are run by male doctors; this might prevent a woman who has been sexually abused to receive the care she needs and are inconveniently located. Allowing Planned Parenthood to be covered by the revised insurance would improve these problems. The clinics are run only by women, located in every major city, and offer all the services covered by Texas Women’s Health (Benefits/Sexual Health Topics). However, contrary to what many people believe, Planned Parenthood was not created as an abortion clinic, but as a clinic which specialized in women’s health care services

Women make up just slightly over half the U.S population (US Census Bureau, 2010) and should not be even considered a part of a minority group. The female population should acquire the same equal research attention as men do, especially when it comes to health issues. The unavoidable, yet quite simple realities of breastfeeding, menstruation, menopause, along with pregnancy require special scrutiny from medical experts. Those medical specialties are generally referred as gynecologists or obstetrics, who focus on the exclusive needs of a female’s reproductive health throughout their lifespan. Historically, the health needs of women have been disregarded as well as their fundamental rights. However, over the past few decades, it has grabbed the media and the government’s attention causing some major changes in support of women’s rights and health care.

In this essay, the theme is focused on President Trump’s actions and mindset towards women's health care. The original article is called, “Trump relaxes Employer's Duty on Birth Control”, by Robert Pear and Rebeca R. Rulz. But the article was revised on October 6, 2017, and it is now titled as, “ Trump Administration Rolls Back Birth Control Mandate.” The article represents inequalities of women's health care, focusing on birth control. Trumps Administration wants to deny the rights of women insurance that covers birth control, and I believe that the role of gender and society are two main reasons why Trumps Administration would think it is acceptable to deny certain treatments for women.

According to our textbook, “in 1977, the FDA issued a set of guidelines that formally excluded all women ‘of child-bearing potential’ from participating in Phase I and Phase II clinical trials… although neither of those public health crises involved women’s participation in clinical research” (Munson and Lague, page 736). This statement shows that women were only seen as caregivers because the concern of women entering clinical trial was not for the safety of the women but for the safety of any potential children that she may bear. Although the role of women was slowly expanded through time, the main priority of scientist during experiments was to make sure that the woman’s reproductive system was not damaged, and it