Causal Stories

Causal Stories The article “Desperate Families Driven to Black Market Insulin” appeared to be written from the perspective of a person who wanted to share the injustice experienced by one particular family in an effort to highlight the systemic issues of medical and insurance companies. Using an idea from Stone (1989), the political function at play was to challenge the systems that create barriers to medication access, assign responsibility to those systems, and potentially make alliances between other families experiencing the same struggle accessing medication. The causal stories at play were the portrayal of a hard-working middle-class family, medical companies blaming each other for the situation the family finds themselves in, and families being forced to find other ways to meet their needs. To discover the people advocating for each story requires some assumptions. People fed up with barriers created by the medical community advocate for these stories to be published to order to share information and create alliances to fight back. The large medical companies mitigate the story with their responses of blaming each other and the historical operations of the overall health care system. First, we can look at the portrayal of a middle-class, hard-working family and the bright, …show more content…
Starting with the nineteenth century, condoms, cervical caps and diaphragms were used as a form of family planning. Comstock Law was enacted in 1873 at the federal level that stated it was a crime to “sell or distribute materials that could be used for contraception or abortion” (Law Library, n.d.) as well as send them through the federal mail system or import them from abroad. This law was enacted largely due to societal concerns of the existence of obscene material and the promotion of sex out of wedlock (Law Library,