Reproductive Rights
Essays

Abortion should be encouraged as an autonomous right of the individual but its use as a callous method of birth control should be discouraged in favor of better alternatives.

Abortion is one of the most divisive and controversial political and social issues in the United States. For many decades, elective abortion was prohibited in most American states. As a result, most women who wished to…

The problem is as old as the New Testament: In it, Mary's cousin Martha, an aged woman, had never had a child. Miraculously, she conceived and gave birth to John, later to be known as John the Baptist.

This paper focuses on readings selected from a feminist history textbook. The readings cover health, reproductive rights, and family. The questions focus on the issues that arise in these three areas, meaningful quotes from the readings, critical response to the readings, and questions that the student would ask in a classroom discussion. There were resources used in the paper. They include: In Shaw, S. & Lee, J. (Eds.) Women's voices, feminist visions: Classic and contemporary readings (4th ed.). pp. 336-349, New York: McGraw-Hill.