Women 's Health Care And Reproductive Rights

Of all the legal, ethical, and moral issues we Americans continuously fight for or against, abortion may very well be the issue that Americans are most passionate about. The abortion issue is in the forefront of political races. Many people in society today choose to be pro-choice because they want to support women of their choice and right to have an abortion and that sex education that promotes abstinence is not effective. According to “Abortions: every Woman’s Right” by Smith S., the article discusses about how women couldn’t be equal to men because they don’t have the same rights to reproductive rights of their own even if though they are advanced in the job market or have a higher education. Even socialist argue that women deserve to have rights over their body without interference. Part of NARAL’s impact to

“By 2014, 82 family planning clinics across the state had closed. The consequence was calamitous. In Midland, for example, when the Planned Parenthood clinic closed, there were two aftereffects: 8,000 well-women appointments a year vanished, and so did the last place a could get an abortion between Fort Worth and El Paso… researchers found that two years after the cuts, Texas' women's health program managed to serve fewer than half the number of women it had before. The Legislature's own researchers predicted that more than 20,000 resulting unplanned births would cost taxpayers more than a quarter of a billion dollars in federal and state Medicaid support… new providers don't necessarily have the same capacity to do cancer screenings and

In 1973, the US Supreme Court declared abortion a nationwide fundamental right through a trial called Roe vs. Wade and protected this right underneath the Fourteenth Amendment, more specifically, the right to privacy. A basic human right, especially one outlined by the Supreme Court, must never run at risk or threat chiefly because not everyone agrees with it. Under no circumstances should a pregnancy ever adjudge mandatory. Abortion is a Constitutional right and as a nation we must fight to give the right and freedom of safe abortions to women all around the nation, make birth control and sex education accessible to women, and raise awareness about the topic itself. (LawCornell)

Encompassing the specific points and pieces of the reproductive war that I have discussed thus far, I believe that abortion and the reproductive rights umbrella is indeed a feminist issue. In an era when reproductive rights are being especially combated, as they are in the present (Murray, 301) feminists need to be clear and fervent about where we stand and what we are fighting for. Though perhaps a very controversial opinion, I believe that “pro-life” women are counterproductive to this fight. Jeanne Mancini, the President of the biggest anti-abortion event, the March for Life, claims that she has talked to an substantial amount of women who have regretted having an abortion. Many of these women label themselves as “pro-life feminists” and

Under the Trump administration, women’s reproductive rights in developing countries have been dealt a devastating blow. It is our moral and ethical duty to fight regain these rights back for some of the most disadvantaged and powerless women in the world. Women should be able to have a choice about what happens to their own bodies, and be the masters of their own destiny. This policy is an assault on women’s health and we need to stand up and fight for the repeal of this unfair and unjust law.

Before I begin I have a question: You are holding a petri dish containing a fertilized egg in one hand and a baby in the other hand; you trip and can only save one which do you pick?

Women’s reproductive rights are legal rights and freedoms pertaining to reproduction and reproductive health. One can expect reproductive rights to include the following topics: the right to birth control, the right to legal abortion, the right to education and access so that properly informed choices can be made and the right to access good-quality reproductive healthcare. The women’s reproductive rights and freedoms movement move far beyond the topic of the abortion movement alone, there are also debates that include forced sterilization abuse and population control when looking at the subject of reproductive rights. Throughout history, women have had their right to abortion taken away and have even been sterilized without their permission because they were mentally handicapped or just because they were not the “dominant” race because eugenicists wanted greater procreation by the middle-class women of European descent. Women have had to endure an abundant amount of abuse to their reproductive rights and freedoms, from having their right to abortion taken away to being wrongfully sterilized; women have had to fight for their rights that should have never been abused in the first place. This term paper will outline the history of the reproductive rights movement, the abortion movement, as well as discuss how women have been wrongfully forced into sterilization.

On January 25, 2017, the women student initiatives group hosted a panel on women’s reproductive rights as a part of the buckeye women’s series. The event was hosted inside of the Alonso Family Room of the Ohio Union with over 50 attendees including males and females. The panel was comprised of people who majored in women’s studies and there was even an employee of Planned Parenthood to converse about women’s health services that are at stake. They also discussed how to come together to ensure women are able to keep their reproductive rights locally and globally. Overall, the event was exceptionally insightful since it brought to light the numerous questions, challenges and concerns woman are and will be facing in regards to their reproductive

Women's reproductive rights has always been a hot topic amongst the people of the United States, as well as is one of the heavy hitters in determining whether an individual identifies his or herself as a Democrat or a Republican, in terms of political affiliation. Democrats believe that a person should have the ability to decide whether or not they want to bear a child or get an abortion, thus they are identified as pro choice. Whereas, Republicans more so advocate against the ideas of abortion and contraception, their views are considered pro life.

Society often views women as objects to look at, even after society has evolved not much has changed for women. Of course, over many decades women have been granted the right to vote, work outside of the home, and for now have control over our reproductive rights. Women were never handed anything on a platter, everything we have we’ve had to work for. In a way, one could say that throughout the years women have been made to feel lesser compared to men. This could potentially be the reason why many women don’t take jobs that are stereotypically said to be “more suited for men”, such as Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM). The original reason being that they were once only a man’s job and now it’s more a matter of not knowing about

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.

control pill entered the markets in 1960. Before this pill was invented, women did not have an

In my research of the Center for Reproductive Rights it has become abundantly clear that women’s health and reproductive rights are linked to the overall social and economic well being of society. Large scale gender discrimination impedes a woman’s ability to be fully productive members of society and their stifles their contributions to the economy. Sharp, Register and Grimes point out that women often experience wage and occupational discrimination as demonstrated by a full-time working women earning, on average, 80 percent of what a man working full-time earns. (2013., p. 189) They go on to tie this discrimination to how women are socialized to pursue professions that are seen as more feminine and are linked to domestic activities as historically

The issue of contraceptives is mainly seen as a reproductive rights and women’s rights issue; touching on the Pro-Life v Pro-Choice debate. With contraceptives, women can be seen to be given equality (promotes equality). It allows them autonomy and choice. It allows women to have control over their own bodies and select choices as they see fit. Having religiously affiliated organizations refusing to fulfill the requirements of the ACA limits the autonomy of female employees. It can also be argued that this issue infringes on the employees’ First Amendment rights. Proponents of the mandate believe that religiously affiliated organizations, particularly for-profit organizations, are responsible for providing reproductive services (including

The issue of women’s rights has been a subject of debate for a long period of time. Despite women having equal rights as men as enshrined in the constitutions of various countries and the universal declaration of human rights, in most cases the society has never granted the women the rights as they are supposed to enjoy them. In all the institutions in the society, the women have played the second fiddle to men and this has only meant that they are dominated by the men which have turned out in most cases to be unfair. In the early times however, the discrimination was higher as compared to what is there currently . At the moment, the women have advanced in terms for advocating for their rights and in fact there are several groups that help them in fighting for their rights. Initially, they were paid lowly despite working for long hours; they did not have the same rights to own property with their male counterparts and could not go for advanced studies like the men. Even if they went, it was not taken seriously as that for the men. In the religious field, they did not have positions like the males yet majority of those who attended the church services were the women.