Summary: The Market For A Yale Woman's Eggs

The article began with the relationship between 17 year old Jen and her 20 year old boyfriend Rick. Jen became pregnant with their son at the age of 15. She said she chose to get pregnant because Rick wanted her to have his baby shortly after they met. In low income cities becoming pregnant is almost like a badge of honor. It is honorable to be chosen, out of many other girls, to be the one the guy

Mr. Szafranski deposited his sperm to be frozen and used as a back-up on the date Ms. Dunston’s eggs were eventually retrieved. In addition, they both signed an informed consent document that not only outlined the risks involving in vitro fertilization, but stated that there could be

Social reproduction refers to the continuous intergenerational physically and emotionally exhausting household labour that is needed to maintain life (Trotz, lecture, Jan 13, 2016). This kind of labour though is considered to be a woman’s duty. Since an economic activity happens where there is a market, social reproduction is not considered as one as it doesn’t have a visible market. Even though, it doesn’t have market value, domestic work greatly contribute to the economy (Waring, 2013). Since this work is done in homes and by women who are usually marginalized, it remains invisible and thus not considered for pay. This kind of work depends on the traditional division of labour in which women are seen as housewives while men, breadwinners. Thus, the gendering of social reproduction is a result of “doing gender,” where women’s abilities to be mothers are naturalized (Coltrane, 1989); in other words, women are made to fit into the simplistic “domestic = family = heterosexual woman = care and love” equation (Manalansan & Martin, 2008, p.2), while any man who does the caring work in a family is feminized and considered a lesser man (Coltrane, 1989).Thus, a woman’s femininity depends on her motherhood while a man’s masculinity depends on “not doing mother’s work” (Coltrane, 1989, p.473).

In society reproduction is one of the most important things that keeps our world's population growing. In these three short dystopian stories there are different approaches on ideas on what reproduction should be like and how it should be approached. Reproduction rights have an immensely big impact on each of these stories in different circumstances but are very much alike. These three different stories have different rules for the way they run their reproduction systems in their communities. Ten with a Flag the way the society has to do with reproduction is by a ranking system. In this case the people in the story find out how great their child is by ranking, so if the child is a ten it's perfect and if the baby has a perfect ten with a flag, the flag means that the baby might have something troubled or wrong about its persona. Amaryllis is about keeping society to a minimum. Auspicious Eggs is about the Catholic Church and its involvement the reproductive system. All of these stories have harsh endings if an individual can't do something to meet society's specifications about reproduction rules.

Eliza Gamble “Supremacy of the Male” was published in 1916. She was an advocate to woman and was active in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many of her arguments were geared towards Darwin’s point of view of man being ultimately superior over woman. Women have basic functions and characteristics as dictated by nature through evolution. Women are capable of social and emotional intelligence. They also play an important role as human beings and have various characteristics that are represented and essential to mankind. The social roles are an important factor and these issues affect women.

d. “Finally, recruiters may approach families or guardians living in poverty and seek to purchase girls or young women. Recruiters may point out how the money might be used to help existing family members while promising that their daughter will have access

This article was made to answer a tweet on Twitter on why poor people buy expensive items instead of living within their means. The author begins answering this question by stating “His is a belief held by many people, including lots of black people, poor people, formerly poor people, etc.”(Cottom).What do black people have to do with poor people? The author also tells us that their family is lucky due to their ability to “talk like white folks.”(Cottom). What does talking like white folks have to do with being poor? In the article, she credits being able to support herself by “aping the white male privileged life of mind”(Cottom), meaning she has supported herself by acting like a wealthy white male. What does being white or being a woman have to do with the topic of being poor? The article she has written states countless facts about discrimination that the article overshadows the main idea; why do poor people buy expensive apparel they don’t need?

In her essay called ‘Shunned’, Meredith Hall composes an “arrangement of pictures” from the time she got shunned. Meredith lost her friends and family’s respect within a blink of an eye. She was also kicked out of school and was not allowed to return to her church. Those who praised Hall began to believe that if she wound up pregnant that easily, any girl in town could to. “The price I paid seems still to be extreme. But I bet it was a while again before any girl in Hampton let herself get fucked in the gritty sand by a boy from far away who said love” (50). The crime she committed was getting pregnant at a young age. For that reason, everyone including her parents shunned Hall. Although town was filled with child abusers, public adultery, and parents incapable of taking care of their kids, for some reason getting pregnant at a young age was considered a lot worse. After Hall realized that she had a baby growing in her stomach, her motherly instincts kicked in and she stopped taking part in any gymnastics activity that may have put her unborn child in danger. Hall left gym one day and went into the locker room with her two best friends. She made the mistake of telling them that she is pregnant. She thought that they would help or support her but instead, without saying a word, her friends walked back out of the locker room into the gym. The abandonment of her friends foreshadowed the blame and shame that was coming for her from the community without clear warning. “It’s

Roberts attempts to convince readers that reproduction is an important topic, especially for black individuals. She addresses it important because certain policies that are set to keep black women from having children but also because these same policies persuade people in believing that racial inequality is perpetuated by Black people themselves. Roberts wants readers to think about reproduction in a new way and realize that these policies not only affect Black Americans but also the very meaning of reproductive freedom.

It was about a girl named Melissa sixteen years old whose mother left her at the age of 13. Her step mother wasn’t close to her. Melissa didn’t have proper care, so she just started going to clubs with her boyfriend. One day, at the club her boyfriend made her drunk so much and sexual assaulted her. After, three to four months later she found out that she was pregnant. Both characters in the article felt ashamed of themselves. They felt embarrassed walking with a fat tummy, worried that people will make fun of them. When one person asked Janie how she can have a baby at this age, she answered she’s eighteen years old. Then she questioned her, how can she be eighteen when she herself is nineteen. She for sure doesn’t look eighteen. She didn’t tell her real age because people will make fun of her and say so much about her behind her back. It was embarrassing for her to say that she’s the mother of Etta when she’s a child herself. Similarly, it was humiliating for Melissa to tell her friends that she’s pregnant. They were shocked at this. They thought their friend is a bad girl and a bad influence. They spread rumors about her and broke friendship with her. Furthermore, Janie and Melissa were worried how they will take care of Etta and Jane when they both have to finish school. Melissa doesn’t want her daughter to spend the same life as she did. So, she aware her daughter about these things before. In the end, when her

Mike McKee’s article, "Weighing the Right to Own an Embryo," made the front page of the Recorder, a daily legal newspaper published in San Francisco reporting on legal advice and interests of attorneys and legal practitioners. How did he make his article such a success? What made it front page worthy in the eyes of this legal audience? McKee’s article, "Weighing the Right to Own an Embryo," appeals to a legal audience by presenting an unbiased framework and evidence.

Public backlash against Jennifer Cramblett quickly began. While most agree that the couple has a right to sue over the sperm “mix up”, it is Jennifer Cramblett’s reasoning that has many up in arms. Rather than focusing on the grave clinical error, the complaint more so focuses on that of the “injuries” Cramblett and Zinkon now face due to having a “mixed racial” child.

Women that do not want to birth an embryo and have acquired pregnancy from a partner that does may cause the father to argue and convince the mother to use her body to carry his fetus to term. A great example of the fetus only being the male’s interest and pregnancy being the result from both partners engaging in sexual acts to produce an offspring is stated in the Decision To Abort article. The Decision To Abort article states, “Steve did pursue his interests in sex, companionship, and procreation in morally legitimate ways. In fact, this fetus is the object and result of his pursuit of these interests. Thus, this fetus is a legitimate object of Steve's concern and hence is his and only his. Given this, if Michelle destroys this fetus without his consent, she will cause Steve a wrongful harm. Specifically, she will harm Steve by interfering with his interest in procreation. Moreover, in so far as this fetus is just Steve's, he alone gets to decide on the issue of abortion” (Hanrahan 29). When a man is pursuing his interest in sexual acts to produce a child, the embryo created is his top priority and if the mother destroys his top priority without his consent, it effects the father significantly. Communication plays a huge role in whether or not the men’s input will be accepted by the biological mother in the decision of abortion.

Reading descriptions in medical texts, Martin wondered how male-oriented views from textbooks matched so cohesively with those of the interviewees. After some research, Martin realized the thought process of woman during labor matched the text book definitions due the definitions men witnessed during childbirth and illustrated in text books and woman culturally internalized and learned through ideology as a description of contractions vs. giving birth.

The way to understand Weber’s social action on the article of the family choosing the sperm donor. The Ketcham’s take a social action about wanting to start a family. (affectual the emotional state of someone who can’t explain how they got to be that way.) For this couple it meant they couldn’t conceive and they could not explain why. They try many medical treatments but failed to conceive. They chose another way to have a family. (instrumental rational means to an end they wanted a family they found a way to achieve that.) They chose to get artificially insemination First, they researched which sperm bank and donors would best suit them best. Then couple chose a specific type for their future child. They chose a donor who was a family-oriented