Patriarchal Norms In Health Care

1. Patriarchal norms constitute a threat to women’s health by not giving women equal rights to having healthcare this is achieved by equity, androcentrism, medical esliation, stereotyping, and environmental social justice.(362) Equity is the access and affordability to health care. Androcentrism is male centered culture. Medical esiliation is what and how we treat people this group also includes medical debt. Stereotyping this is labeling patients before the get treated and swaying questions to their race, gender, or age. The last group is environmental social justice putting poor people in dangerous living spaces like Flint which has known to cause women of color to have miscarriages. Which is when not all women have rights to fertility, abortions clinics and contraceptive plans it effects their planning for their future and shows women’s health is less important than men’s view on these techniques of future planning. (384) in western society there are a lot of stigmas on a women’s reproductive rights. On page 385 of Women’s Voice Feminists Vision by Susan Shaw and Janet Lee society these norms by shaming a …show more content…
Before Roe v. Wade happened contraceptives rights came along way to have any of their reproductive rights. In 1873 the Comstock Act which banned access to speak about abortions or contraceptive laws. (372) Griswold V. Connecticut in 1965 which thought that state law violated martial secrecy on the use of contraceptives. Roe Vs Wade in 1973 gave women the right to choose what to do with their bodies and futures. There is a long debate about whether or not women should be allowed to have access to legal abortions. (386) in this debate there are two sides pro-choice vs. pro-live. Pro-choice is believing in the right of allowing women to abortion clinics and ‘’pro-life” is against women having abortions facilities. Trying to erase the right to women have abortions allowing women to decide what Is best for their bodies we lose progress the United States has