Sterilization

shed light on the unlawful and unwanted tubal ligations that occured at a Los Angeles hospital in the 1960s and 70s. Ten Hispanic women came forward to share their stories. Reminiscent of experiments done in Germany during WWII, when unwanted sterilization of ‘unfavorable’ races were conducted. Also similar to the “Mississippi appendectomy;” where women would be told that they needed an appendectomy and they would go in and tie their tubes. This happened to poor women of low socioeconomic…

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Despite the contrary belief, pregnancy prevention and the idea that a woman can determine how many children she brings to life has been around for centuries. Birth control also known as contraception is a medication that prevents or lessens the frequency of conception. The earliest documentation on birth control description dates back to the ancient Egyptian era. To block the sperm, Egyptians used honey, acacia leaves and lint. In ancient Greece silphium, a plant was used as a contraceptive. In…

themselves or knows another who has. In conclusion, the book Hidden Roots, by Joseph Bruchac, is about an eleven year old boy who gives his accounts of how he learned about his Native culture. The themes include racism and abuse of Native Americans, sterilization of women, lower income families, and domestic violence. The book gives an insight into history that may not have been known. It is also an influence on American Literature due to how cultures are really perceived. The author, Joseph…

responsibility. The first value which appears to be the most prominent is responsibility. “The Virginia Statute providing sexual sterilization of inmates…with a hereditary form of insanity or imbecility,” was ruled to be under the responsibility of the court based on the Fourteenth Amendment (Bell v Buck 1-4). The Supreme Court describes the Amendment which allows sexual sterilization to be…

Positive eugenics focused on the aspect that advocated for high rates of reproduction among people with ‘desirable’ traits. Conversely, negative eugenics involved for lower rates of production and/or sterilization for those with traits that were less than desirable. Because of this, medicine was not an insulated sphere, but an element largely penetrated by political and social values. The efforts to promote social hygiene were, after all, motivated by fears…

“Nursing-sensitive outcomes are defined as changes in health status upon which nursing care has had a direct influence, “according to Yang, Ke-Ping A., Simms, Lillian M., Yin, Jeo-Chen T. This is when a patient’s health status changes due to the current treatment or healthcare delivery and fulfillment. Some of the factors that may contribute to Nursing-sensitive patient outcomes include the following bio-psychosocial functioning and patient satisfaction. Two examples of nursing-sensitive patient…

Websters dictionary describes evil as morally bad, wicked, sin, and a source of sorrow and distress. Good is defined as something of good quality, satisfactory, producing a beneficial effect, considerable, desirable, well behaved, virtuous, and kind. These are both ends of the spectrum of how people, objects, and even ideas are impacted.. These definitions are bold representations of how people have behaved in the past and present. Both acts of good and evil by the world’s people have impacted…

Forced Abortions A deplorable implication which had risen due to the OCP is the sudden rise in abortions and especially reportedly forced abortions by the authorities. The awful persistence of forced abortions, sterilizations and infanticide in China reflect a contradiction in the Chinese system -- and in the one-child policy itself. The senior leadership in Beijing may set national policy, such as today's relaxation of the one-child policy, but it is local- and provincial-level…

government’s HHS mandate, The Little Sisters of the Poor were forced to either violate their religious beliefs or pay an immense fines that will hurt their organization. The HHS mandate requires all employer health plans to provide free contraceptives, sterilizations and abortion-inducing drugs, regardless of any moral or religious objections. This is a clear violation of religious freedom because religious institutions are being forced to provide services that go against the teachings of the…