Margaret Sanger

As Margaret Sanger once said, No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body. Women’s right to their bodies are being taken away by pro-life supporters. Abortion is the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy, most often performed during the first twenty-eight weeks of pregnancy. The beginning of abortion started early in the 1820’s when Connecticut passed the first law in the United States to allow “quickening” which was performed on women after their fourth week of…

The two most important themes related to health in American women 's lives between the late 1800 's and early 1900 's are contraception and abortion. Both contraception and abortion would be a turning point for individual rights as well as medicine. Before the institution of medicine accepted birth control and abortion, women in general were regarded as housewives, child bearers and most served the local communities as midwives and healers to the sick. Even though midwives were highly regarded…

Essay#2 War has a significant impact on any nation during war, however, the effects of the war do not end when the fighting is done. The war shapes a country for decades following war if not forever. This can be seen following the end of World War 1 in 1918 and the end of World War 2 in 1945. The United States followed many of the same trends following both wars with some differences. The trends can mainly be found in regards to economic prosperity, social change, and foreign policy.…

From the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, industrialization and expansion changed the face of American society. The rise of poverty and class disparities encouraged social reformers to try and better the nation. Members of these reform organizations attacked prostitution, illegitimate pregnancy, marriage, and a myriad of other social “ills.” While men commuted to work, Victorian middle-class homes became the domain of women, who entertained guests, educated and raised the children and…

Throughout the course, we have explored the multifaceted, constantly changing concept of gender (1). Culture, religion, politics and global relations affect the manor in which gender has been shaped. There are many different theories about the possible biological and physiological influence as well as theories that utilize only social and cultural basis. One of the most complicated aspects of understanding gender is the difference between sex and gender. The definition of sex (2), the result of…

Abortion should be illegal because it should be the government who should be protecting the right to life.The government is in charge of making laws to protect the most basic human rights and our values. Abortion contradicts the purpose of those laws. Civil rights are violated when people are deprived of their basic rights in a biased way. Unborn children have the most basic right of all taken away, simply based on their location (their mother’s womb) and their developmental status. (Brown 6).…

Women’s Rights Over the Last Century Throughout history, cultures have typically assigned different roles to men and women. Women through the lens of history have been seen as inferior to the male authority. Women for many centuries have fought for legal equality, a voice, the right to own property, to work outside of the home, and common social equality. Women went from being the property of their husbands, and/or their fathers to being able to own their own property and manage their own…

Government Defunding of Planned Parenthood Abortions “As a nation, we gamble with the lives of those who do not yet have a voice to defend themselves for the sake of allowing women to escape the consequences of their previous decisions by removing every possible future decision from the children dependent on their bodies for growth and development” (Waltman). Everyday Planned Parenthood performs abortions funded by the government. The government funding of abortions needs to stop. With the…

The development of the pill was commissioned by birth-control pioneer Margaret Sanger and Katharine McCormick who opened the first birth-control clinic in the U.S. in 1916. Which hoped to encourage the development of a more practical and effective alternative that were in use at the time. In the early 1950’s Gregory Pincus began…

ROE V. WADE 2 Roe V. Wade: A Woman’s Right To Choose The case that made abortion legal was the Roe v. Wade case that acquired a lot of controversy. In many cases of the women’s right to choose most people believed it to be wrong to…