Reproductive rights

THE INCREASED BIOPOLITICAL CONTROL OF WOMEN’S BODIES THROUGH REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE REGULATION; AN INTERSECTIONAL ANALYSIS. Recently proposed laws that enact abortion and reproductive health care regulation have been marked as safety precautions in order to protect the health of women. However, these laws do not consider which groups are most often impacted by their enactment, and what the consequences of said enactment may be. If clinics in low income neighborhoods cannot meet…

different facts of a woman’s life all weave together to determine how easily she is able determine her own health and sexuality. While talking about reproductive justice in chapter 7 the authors say that to “freely choose is difficult in a racist, class basses, and sexist society” (pg.374). As we discussed in class a woman may not be able to make the reproductive choices she feels are best for her for any number of reasons. For example if I became pregnant I may not be able to find the funds to…

lifetime. Feminists of the late 1960’s early 1970’s worked for reproductive rights. And on January 22, 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court, affirms the legality of a woman 's right to have an abortion under the Fourteenth amendment to the Constitution. Once abortion became legal, people of the 70’s had easy access, however since then accessibility has decreased. Controversy, forces unhealthy abortions, the violation of fundamental human rights, disrupting countless lives, and the shrinking accessibility…

Scholars debate whether political polarization has grown among the mass public in the United States. One school of thought does not believe that the public has become more polarized (DiMaggio et. al 1998; Evans 2003; Klinkner 2006; Fiorina et. Al 2008). According to this thought, current measures of polarization conflate citizens’ votes with ideologies. Votes do not directly measure citizens’ ideologies, as citizens take into account candidates’ ideologies as well as their own when voting. On…

focus within the community from which they lived in, especially when it came to educating and empowering young women and girls. As was described in Undivided Rights, the NLHO began co-sponsoring college classes and workshops in 1988 in an effort to educate Latinas on a variety of health and reproductive issues, such as mental health, patient’s rights, birth control, sexuality, cancer prevention, homophobia, teen pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, domestic violence, and alcohol abuse (2004). Keeping true to…

In the 2024 OPINIONOPINION essay “The US war on reproductive rights should concern women everywhere”, journalist, author and feminist campaigner, Julie Bindel discusses the suffering women in the UK and Europe experience as a result of the political and legal gains being made by the anti-choice movement in the US. She illustrates that women’s reproductive rights are rapidly being replaced with reproductive wrongs. For example, in Idaho, abortion is only allowed in cases involving rape or incest…

“[a]chieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health” (“Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health” 1). However, 2015 has passed, and “only half of pregnant women receive the recommended amount of antenatal care” (“Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health” 1). This lack of access to proper reproductive health, particularly in developing countries, remains a pressing issue in need of immediate attention not only to empower women by providing them with the basic right to control their bodies but also to…

Reproductive system helps our body to function properly such as producing an eggs,sperms and ovas.It mainly helps us produces the female egg cells necessary for reproduction, called the ova or oocytes. The reproductive system is very important part of the body system because it helps the population to reproduce, it is a very crucial factor of living.The reproductive system helps our body to produce new cells. One of the most widespread diseases of the reproductive system is known as prostate…

Planned Parenthood is a hot topic right now in the U.S., it is very interesting to me because everyone is asking if it’s a good idea to have Planned Parenthood or not a good idea to have Planned Parenthood, so I wanted to find out more about how Planned Parenthood affects the U.S. Society today and what people think of it. The Planned Parenthood Clinics are able to help a wide range of people like men, women and children. I want to talk about how Planned Parenthood affects you if you are…

decision, the United States Supreme Court that established the decision of Roe v. Wade. By enacting this law, it gave thousands of women a broader range of choices when faced with a pregnancy, based on individual circumstances, protecting their reproductive rights. Today, there has been a change in the dynamics, leaving those who stand on both sides of the issue, unsatisfied with the current laws of abortion. Based on the theory established by W.D. Ross, there are several “prima facie duties,”…