Women’s Healthcare: Greed, Government, and God
AP Seminar
April 30 2023
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What if you were forced to have a child you couldn’t take care of? How would that impact your life and the life of your child? That is what this essay will attempt to explain. This essay will examine the effects of corporations, lobbying, and poverty on women's healthcare, with a focus on how these aspects affect womens' access to reproductive rights in the United States. The politicization concerning this issue is clear, and businesses are publicly authorizing or opposing generative rights by taking positions on womens' healthcare and abortion. The issue is also heavily impacted by lobbying, with groups on both sides of the issue using
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These elements have a meaningful impact on women's approaches to reproductive healthcare aids and can influence the laws and policies that are implemented. To ensure that all women have the ability to make informed decisions about their generative health, policymakers and healthcare specialists must address these factors. In the United States, the topic of failure and women's healthcare is intensely politicized and is increasingly influenced by trade, lobbyists, and poverty. With a dedicated effort to something about how they affect women’s access to generative health, this essay will examine in what way or manner these factors influence abortion and women’s healthcare.
The discussion in the United States about abortion and women’s healthcare has been considerably shaped by corporations. A current trend has seen businesses ally with accompanying
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Women who are weak are more likely to become pregnant involuntarily and may encounter meaningful obstacles when trying to approach reproductive healthcare duties. The cost of these services is one of the biggest obstacles for mothers who live in nanny poverty to obtaining generative healthcare. Many poor mothers are unable to pay for abortions and additional reproductive healthcare duties out of pocket due to their extreme cost. This may make it challenging for these women to receive the care they require. Other hurdles to accessing generative healthcare services for women in need may include a lack of transportation, a lack of services in their region, and stigma in seeking these services, apart from a financial one. These obstacles may make it difficult for many women to get the medical consideration they require, which could have a negative effect on their health and general
One of the most effective and crucial programs for women’s health is currently under attack by the so-called president of the United States, Donald Trump. In an attempt to convince the people that he is willing to stand up for everyone, including the unborn, but instead, Mr. Trump is oppressing women and taking away their rights as human beings. Without Planned Parenthood, 2.5 million men and women would be left without affordable, high-quality health care. One in five women have visited a Planned Parenthood in their lifetime. The fact that all of the care and help Planned Parenthood gives can all be lost due to something as petty as abortion services is almost laughable.
Her work has shown that by starting off with a nursing degree and a passion, there is so much that a nurse can do to improve healthcare for women Nurses have an opportunity to work for organizations like Planned Parenthood and continue to advocate for women’s reproductive rights and care. Nurse practitioners, in particular, can perform roles such as educating women and young girls, inserting IUDs, and prescribing oral contraceptives to women. One of the greatest advantages of this aspect of the nurse practitioner role is that such services are much more affordable to those seeking care, as opposed to visiting a physician for these matters. This concludes that the work of Faye Wattleton and Planned Parenthood have made reproductive healthcare more accessible
The issue at hand is that after 40 years after the U.S. Supreme court made a ruling in the case of Roe vs. Wade, politicians in some states are trying their best to ban the law that secures a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy if she chooses to. In other states, lawmakers are trying to do whatever they can to see that abortion clinics close their doors for good. Making decisions that would stop Medicare from funding an abortion could put a woman at risk if they are pregnant because they would go to extreme measures to give their self an abortion if they do not wish to keep their baby. These clinics offer, more than just an option to get an abortion, state officials would rather see them shut down than to service women in need of other things
Elizabeth Warren addresses these oppositions of Planned Parenthood by asserting the actual facts regarding the organization and reminding the senate that “this affects all of us, whatever your age, wherever you live.” This is found apparent with understanding that nearly 2.7 million women and men visit Planned Parenthood health centers for help every single year. Warren establishes the concept that “One in five women in America is a Planned Parenthood patient at least once in her life” due to the organization being non-profit and readily accessible for those in need. While the STOPP organization protests Planned Parenthood for it’s non-Christian doctrines, over 30% of America does not identify as being Christian and the large majority of patients are not heavily religious, so that portion of the USA has no spiritual qualms with the services provided.
In the New York Times article, "The Stealth Attack on Abortion Access," author Meaghan Winter works to inform her audience on abortion and on the fact that women with low income are having their freedom to choose what they want to do with their body stripped away by abortion foes and republicans. The same abortion foes and republicans who voted to stop organizations, like planned parenthood, from providing cancer screenings, ultrasounds, contraception, and other services to low income women. She also strives to convince her audience to stand up against the people negating a women’s right to choose, and to help fight for the rights of women everywhere. Certain groups of republicans and other anti-abortion associations and advocates are “subsidizing centers with public funds” by working to “defund comprehensive health care providers”. By taking away a health care providers’ ability to fund cervices such as abortion, contraception, and cancer screenings, Women with low income
In the summer of 2013, Texas senator Wendy Davis stood on her feet for thirteen hours (with no restroom breaks) to fight against a bill that would close numerous abortion clinics in Texas. During the filibuster, Davis presented an important question: “What purpose does this bill serve? And could it be, might it just be a desire to limit women's access to safe, healthy, legal, constitutionally-protected abortions in the state of Texas?” (Bassett, “Wendy Davis …”). For centuries women have struggled for adequate access to birth control and resorted to abhorrent means of abortion when they face unwanted pregnancies.
Reproductive Justice and Activist Ambitions Deborah Walsh’s traumatic experiences have saved countless lives. The emotional and physical abuse she endured for over sixty years was transformed into the motivation to protect women’s rights to bodily autonomy. Living in the South for a majority of her life, Walsh describes in this interview her experiences with segregation, marriage, conservative protests, and, most importantly, the evolution of her career as an abortion provider. What began as a nursing aide position in a burn unit eventially led to ownership of a medical clinic, providing a wide range of resources for thousands of women.
There are two very distinct sides that continuously argue over the funding for planned parent, both sides present very well organized arguments; however, there is pros and cons to both sides. One might ask what exactly is Planned Parenthood. Several people are under the impression that this program only deals with abortion; but, this is wrong. Activist that support Planned Parenthood believe that it is the government’s responsibility to provide government aid to help assist the noninsured deal with the conflicts that are a result of giving birth. Those who are against the government providing funds for to help the program Planned Parenthood, tend to be pro-life activist, who are against abortions.
1. Introduction Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the United States, has been a hotly contested issue since it was decided in 1973. While the decision was celebrated by advocates of women's rights as a victory for reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy, opponents of the decision have consistently pushed for its reversal. With the appointment of conservative justices to the Supreme Court in recent years, the possibility of overturning Roe v. Wade has become a very real and pressing concern for women's rights advocates. This paper seeks to explore the potential impact of overturning Roe v. Wade on women's constitutional rights, particularly regarding reproductive freedom and healthcare access.
Lead by the conservative politicians, their aims have been to cut federal funding so that Federal dollars are not going towards abortions. Annas and Mariner (2011) discuss the issues presented to Barack Obama when attempting to pass the Affordable Care Act. He spoke in 2010, reassuring the American people that federal money would not be spent on abortions (p. 1590). With the recent election in America, Trump and the Republican government will bring up issues involving funding to Planned Parenthood. Trump’s Vice-President, Mike Pence has been a strong advocate against Planned Parenthood for several years (Ziegler, 2012, p. 724).
This paper will cover Government funding for Planned Parenthood. I will prove why it is fundamental for the Government to fund Planned Parenthood. I will also prove why it is the Government’s moral obligation to fund Planned Parenthood. In July 2015, a Planned Parenthood was recorded talking about aborting a fetus while preserving its organs for medical research.
Women who are victims of rape will always be in remembrance of their terrifying experience, which sometimes result in neglect and unfair treatment of the child due to the woman’s rape trauma syndrome. Women who are not financially stable that are pregnant and oppose abortion live in poverty. If abortions were banned it would increase illegal abortions which have critical effect to the woman’s health. Statistics estimate that the risk of death from an abortion is 0.6 in 100,000. The risk of death childbirth is 14 times higher, 8.8 in 100,000.
Women’s rights have been a long struggle in America’s legal system, as well as in the religious world, for many decades and women continue to have challenges, concerns, and struggles today. Fighting for what is best for their bodies such as a woman’s right to contraceptives to control whether she will get pregnant or not was not ideal for religious and personal reasons but would find a worthy advocate in a woman who would dedicate her life for women’s reproductive rights. The right for a woman to have an abortion became a legal battle that went all the way to the Supreme Courts in a very well-known case. It has always been a double standard in what was right and wrong, moral or immoral, towards women than men. A man was looked at with respect
In 1960, the first birth control pill was put on the market. This was the first time a woman’s reproductive health was in her own control. Ever since the 1900’s women have been fighting for the right to their own reproductive rights (“The Fight for Reproductive Rights”). With the upcoming presidential election the right to obtain birth control and other contraceptives for women could be jeopardized, and taken out of the control of the woman. Thus, the history of birth control, the statistics of how it affects today’s society, why women should have the ability to obtain it easily, and how if outlawed it would not only hurt women, but also the economy are all important topics in the women’s rights movement and very relevant in modern day society.
We all know that women didn 't have as many rights as men, and they still don 't. Women can now do more than they used to, but they still aren 't equal with men. They have had to fight for so many things like the right to vote and to be equal to men. The 19th amendment, the one that gave women the right to vote, brought us a big step closer. The Equal Rights Movement also gave us the chance to have as many rights as men. Women have always stayed home, cleaned the house, and didn 't even get an education.