Women's Rights In The Late 18th Century

The Woman rights are a extremely large topic and controversy people around the world have heard of or have talked about. Individuals now in days have a large amount of things to say about woman rights and have a strong opinion about it. In the 17th century or even the early 18th century, woman rights where none existing. Even though now we have women’s rights, women are still, not being treated equally as men. We now live in a world where everything is exceeding, everything is improving and growing, but one of the things that is doing none of that are woman rights. Woman rights have taken big steps to improvement but sadly, women rights are now taking steps back, women rights are being taken away one at a time because of greater good as they …show more content…
“The women’s rights movement, also known as feminism and women’s liberation, arose in Europe in the late 18th century, with the aim of expanding recognition and according of women’s rights” (Funk, Wagnalls). Unfortunately, nothing was done before the late 18th century, regarding woman rights. Before any movement or action was done to the woman rights, woman were not allowed to vote, woman had no property rights, the husband had legal power of the woman, the woman were not allowed to have a high education, if the married couple had a divorce the children would go straight to the father, to the male. In other words, women had no social, mortal, legal, educational, or economical status. Women were expected to stay at home and take care of the children, the house chores, and men’s needs. “In early societies, women bore and raised children, cared for the home, and helped maintain the family’s economic production” (Funk, Wagnalls). Women were expected to be housewife’s, …show more content…
Abortions are when a woman does not want to bring the fetus to the world; it might be because of personal reasons, financial reasons or the other many existing reasons. I do not agree in abortion but I do also not agree on the right for woman to abort be taken away. Abortion is a right given to woman because it is their body and their fetus growing inside of them. I personally would never abort but at the same time, I would not say ever, if I wanted the option to abort or every other woman, I want the option to be there. We as humans never know of our upcoming future, if I in the near future stumble into a situation where I need to abort; I want the option to be there. In some states, the right for a woman to abort has been banded after the woman is two months pregnant “Kansas Governor Sam Brownback signed the Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act. It bans a common second trimester procedure.” What is wrong with that is that many women do not even know they are pregnant until they are in their second trimester. Women that are desperate for abortion will do anything and would go out of their way to have an abortion. Right now woman if they want to abort they can go to a professional clinic or a specific doctor that can do that “When states pass laws limiting abortions, they usually put restrictions on women who want them or on clinics that perform them.” If they ban abortion woman