"I didn't want to be a mother," the post starts. "I was 18. We weren't in love. "It's not legal here. So I researched it on the Internet. I did it myself. In my room. If things had gone wrong, I could have died. Seeing it come out of me was the worst moment of my life. And I couldn't tell anyone. Not even my parents. So I carried the secret with me. I felt like this thing was always in my chest, but it was stuck there. All day I'd act normal. Then at night I'd go to my room and cry.” This caption, depicting an at home abortion done in South America, shared and liked by many on the Humans of New York Instagram page has sparked discussion of the importance of women’s access to abortion. Now, many women, and even some men, are left wondering how
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Since the election, women’s marches have taken place around the world to show their distaste not only for the new president, but also towards many of the possible new policies that could affect women. These may include cutting access to birth control, removal of the Affordable Care Act, and the repeal of Roe v. Wade. With all of these previously stated possibilities women may be facing a multitude of problems in the near future, including: higher risks from at home procedures, an increase of women’s expenses and religious institutions instituting their religious opinions onto another. However, many of these regulations do not ask the people who they will affect most: women. While there are many ways to address these impending problems,the best solution to these issues are to give women an active role in creating the regulation, teach the importance of overall excellent health and sexual education at a young age, and most importantly keep many of the current practices in …show more content…
A main principle of America is the ability to practice one’s religion and decide a personal path. When a hospital, serving an entire, diverse community denies a patient to the best access and services that they can provide, they create a hindrance to the health of our society. Regardless of whatever religion one may practice everyone deserves the right to a good successful life. To conclude, a refusal may make a patient feel ostracized from the health care system and worrisome about how others will judge them for the situation they are in. These feelings may cause a patient to avoid contact with the health care system entirely, including use of preventive care, until his or her condition becomes more serious, reducing the chances of the patient recovering and contributing to greater health care costs. Ignoring the problem will not solve it though, when left unresolved, a higher risk of the situation getting worse is probable. After this stage patient usually must then enter one of the overburdened emergency rooms of America. Due to all of these
Since the election, women’s marches have taken place around the world to show their distaste not only for the new president, but also towards many of the possible new policies that could affect women. These may include cutting access to birth control, removal of the Affordable Care Act, and the repeal of Roe v. Wade. With all of these previously stated possibilities women may be facing a multitude of problems in the near future, including: higher risks from at home procedures, an increase of women’s expenses and religious institutions instituting their religious opinions onto another. However, many of these regulations do not ask the people who they will affect most: women. While there are many ways to address these impending problems,the best solution to these issues are to give women an active role in creating the regulation, teach the importance of overall excellent health and sexual education at a young age, and most importantly keep many of the current practices in …show more content…
A main principle of America is the ability to practice one’s religion and decide a personal path. When a hospital, serving an entire, diverse community denies a patient to the best access and services that they can provide, they create a hindrance to the health of our society. Regardless of whatever religion one may practice everyone deserves the right to a good successful life. To conclude, a refusal may make a patient feel ostracized from the health care system and worrisome about how others will judge them for the situation they are in. These feelings may cause a patient to avoid contact with the health care system entirely, including use of preventive care, until his or her condition becomes more serious, reducing the chances of the patient recovering and contributing to greater health care costs. Ignoring the problem will not solve it though, when left unresolved, a higher risk of the situation getting worse is probable. After this stage patient usually must then enter one of the overburdened emergency rooms of America. Due to all of these