Reproductive health

One of the most controversial topics being discussed in today’s society is the concept of reproductive rights. According to the Salem Press Encyclopedia, reproductive rights provide individuals with the freedom to make sexual and reproductive decisions (Caffrey, 2014). Reproductive rights provide both men and women the opportunity to seek reproductive healthcare and education. Additionally, these rights are designed to provide individuals and couples with the opportunity to decide whether or not

Reproductive Rights: Women’s Fight for Control Women having been fighting for equal rights for many years. Because of our genitalia, we will be paid less, we will be judged more, and we will have to fight to protect our basic human rights. Most women are born with the amazing ability to carry life; this is a blessing and a curse. Because of this ability, some people believe that a woman’s body is not completely her own, but that the government has rights to that body as well. We have been fighting

The Center for Reproductive Rights is an organization that dedicates itself to the advancement of law to protect and ensure that women globally have “access to the best reproductive healthcare available; where every woman can exercise her choices without coercion or discrimination.” (“About Us.”, n.d.) Furthermore, the Center for Reproductive Rights works in more than fifty countries to bring awareness to and advocate for a verity of topics ranging from safe and affordable contraception and abortion

sterilization of women without their consent, but the caveat to this was those women who it applied to were those who received government assistance for medical care.2 This was their way of making an attempt to allow women to have control over their reproductive

Organize for Reproductive Justice, was published by the South End Press and written by Marlene Gerber Fried, Loretta Ross, and Elena Gutierrez. Ultimately, due to the lack of inclusivity and representation during the mainstream reproductive movement in the 20th century, this book highlights the bravery and activism done by women of color and their grassroots organizations in order to combat racism and stereotypes as well as to broaden and redefine the meaning of reproductive rights and reproductive justice

The battle for women’s reproductive rights is similar to the struggle for African Americans to have “the full liberty of speech in public and private” as Dredd Scott found out in 1865 when he petitioned for his personal freedom from slavery and lost. Moreover women’s reproductive rights are akin to defending the rights of racial equality, civil rights, desegregation, same sex marriage, and universal human rights. Every individual should have the right to choose how to live his or her private life

1. Integumentary System and Reproductive System Several systems work alongside the integumentary system to keep the body functioning properly. For instance, the integumentary system and the reproductive system are dependent on each other. The skin, an organ of the integumentary system, protects the organs of the reproductive system, such as the uterus. The mammary glands, highly modified glands that are part of the integumentary system, provide milk for an infant after its birth. Skin stretches

Reproductive physiology is comprised of many tightly coordinated functions of the endocrine system including the hypothalamus, pituitary and reproductive organs whose dynamic function plays several critical roles in growth and development as well was reproduction. The hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis plays a critical role in the development and regulation of the reproductive system. These tightly regulated functions within the pituitary must respond to continuously changing signals from the central

Faye Wattleton, world renowned author of women’s reproductive rights once said, “Reproductive freedom is critical to a whole range of issues. If we can’t take charge of this most personal aspect of our lives, we can’t take care of anything. It should not be seen as a privilege or as a benefit, but a fundamental human right.” In many traditional societies around the world, women’s rights regarding their own reproductive choices may seem as limited as their opportunities for them. Cultures in which

Holding on to these fundamental concerns an examination of world hunger and population growth illustrates the problematic nature of this program. The connection between hunger and overpopulation is the notion that the world cannot produce enough food to feed the number of human beings alive. However, the "world produces enough grain alone to provide every man, woman, and child on Earth with 3,000 calories a day" (Hartmann 1995: 16), illustrating this "fact" as profoundly false. Hartmann further