Birth is the beautiful miracle that brings people together. It is the result of two people that love each other and were free to choice what they wanted in life. Everyone things that their body is the most important thing they can control and own. This was illustrated in class when asked who owns are body almost everyone stated “me, I own my body, my body is mine.” This just illustrated that even educated college students have a strong mandate of ownership over their bodies. We don’t stop and think that our bodies are government owned. We can walk, talk, think freely and reproduce, right? Are we that free? In the past, it was evident that the government controlled every part of life. Today in the age of the cloud and E-commerce freedom is nothing but a mere illusion.
To understand any issue that society faces or any systematic problem one have to know the history behind. History is a teacher of what has occurred what happens as well as why it is happening today. Jennifer Nelson starts off in the introduction talking about history. She states."how many women of color have lost the ability to bear children through involuntary sterilizations." what rights did these women have at the time to fight back? This was something that happened and could never be taken back. As a man I am looking understand that feeling, But how can man relate to a woman might being told you will never have a child, you will never be a mother all because the government doesn't see you are "good enough.". The pain that statement causes on the psychological state of a woman is eminence. For many poor women the dream to raise a child, and through hard work get them out of poverty. Woman of color wanted to push for the right to choose. They wanted to be able to pick for themselves legal abortions not where safe.
The history is now repeating itself as Roxane Grey says " this time the witch hunt is a cynical ploy to distract the populace from the right issues." The government once again not being able to fix the real problems at hand they bring up the topic of contraception. Which is a weak fallback point.
Government has to gain strength and stop using woman as a stepping stone or a hiding stone for the bigger issues. Woman need the same rights to their bodies that man have. Man have rights that are never questioned but woman are placed under unfair pressure and impossible standards . .
Works Cited
Crabtree, Justina. "Here’s why there might never be a successful birth control pill for men." CNBC. CNBC, 17 Feb. 2017. Web. 01 Apr. 2017.
Gay, Roxane. "The Alienable Rights of Women." Bad Feminist: Essays. New York: Harper Perennial, 2014. Print.
Nelson, Jennifer. "Introduction - From Abortion to Reproductive Rights." Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement. New York: New York U Press, 2003. Print.
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