The Lack of Human Reproductive Information by Isaac Aguilar

iagui042_ — 2023-11-19 23:19:03 UTC

Hospitals are known or used to be known to be safe places for individuals to go get the help they need. It seems like that is starting to change and it is not as safe as we thought it was. Based on my own experience it seems like hospitals are not just trying to get you healthy. I had once gone to the hospital because I dropped a knife on my arm but they tried going after me thinking I did something different. That's because of the laws that are made that are supposed to help the patients. For example, the article titled "Race, Reproductive Justice, and the Criminalization of Purvi Patel" by Priya Kandaswamy mentions how the laws that are meant to protect women are actually being used against women. This is not a good sign because it will cause people to fear hospitals. They don't know if the law will be used against them instead of being used to protect them.

iagui042_ — 2023-11-19 23:21:47 UTC

The government plays a huge factor in what we know and what we can do. I'm pretty sure that is no secret to any of us because we have experienced that some time in our life. I have experienced this myself, the things I liked to do became legal and there was nothing I could do about it because of the government. The government has a lot of power over us and can place things to stop us from doing certain things. For example, the article "Racism, Birth Control, and Reproductive Rights" by Angela Davis mentions how sterilization was free and legal but abortions were not. What was basically being said in the reading was that the government/state didn't want more kids to come from the poor side. Therefore the government used the power they have over us and made sterilization legal. This is simply because the government doesn't want women to be having abortions. So they placed a law to push women to a certain side, basically making the decision for them. The government knows what kind of power they have against us, knowing they can make decisions for us without actually saying that.

iagui042_ — 2023-11-19 23:23:27 UTC

In the world we live in we are all separated based on what we have and how much we have of it. We are treated differently depending on the place we land on for our status. It's like you go to the dealership and they know if you are either poor or rich. Depending on which one you are will determine how you will be treated. This type of discrimination is also seen in public health situations. For example, the article titled "Sterilized in the Named of Public Health" by Alexandra Minna mentions how the majority of the people who were being sterilized were working class and down. That is because they were not as wealthy as the other classes. It's almost as if you have money automatically gives you an identity that individuals will take seriously. Women who come from the not-so-wealthy class struggle because they are not seen the same as other women from the wealthy classes. The doctors and nurses know the prices of the produce so they don't give all the options as they would for a wealthy woman.

iagui042_ — 2023-11-20 21:25:35 UTC

Communication is becoming something that is so important so people can know your choices. Without proper communication, you are most likely to be taken advantage of because they don't understand your wishes. I have witnessed this type of situation with my grandmother. She had gone to the hospital and she is not able to speak English but does understand a little bit of English. I guess there was no nurse at the time to help translate so the nurses just did what they thought my grandmother wanted. Basically, my grandmother was taken advantage of because of the lack of communication. This lack of communication is most common in the medical field because it's not required to know multiple languages. This happened with Spanish when Spanish is very common in California, now imagine the other languages that are not so common. So if there is this much lack of communication how do we know if people especially women are getting all the medical options?

iagui042_ — 2023-11-21 00:41:36 UTC

I'm not female but I have witnessed things that females go through because I grew up with 2 sisters. What I have witnessed is that women are not seen as individuals who can make the discusses they say they want to make. If you were to place a male and a female at a table in the restaurant and wait for a waitress to come. I'm most certain the waitress would look towards the male for the decision if they are ready to order. I'm pretty sure we can all say we have had this happen to us at some point in our lives. It's as if women of this world are stuck behind a barrier. Marilyn Frye calls this Oppression, oppression is when the female is caught between or among forces and barriers that jointly restrain, restrict, or prevent mobility. Frye describes it as a "bird cage". Women are just stuck in the cage because they are women and are not seen as equal to men. Now imagine what happens when a woman decides to reproduce. Are they taken seriously if they don't have a male present? Would they even get the proper information they need if they don't have a male present to make decisions?