Fourth Wave Feminists

1. Why did you decide to investigate abortions in Bolivia? 2. How do you feel about a women's right to abortion? 3. Do you believe that once a mother decides she no longer wants to be pregnant she'll do anything in her power not to be pregnant?

Judith Arcana’s argument in her article was very powerful because it highlights the fact that abortion is a motherhood issue because it is about babies growing in a women’s body. Women are the ones who have to take all the responsibility, so why should men especially have an input on what we can or cannot do with our bodies, when they are not the one’s held responsible and do not have to deal with the consequences. If the roles were reversed and men were the ones who could get pregnant, not only would contraception be covered by insurance and given out as freely as condoms, but abortion would be legal in every state. Although I had trouble understanding Arcana’s comparison of deciding to send your child to Hebrew school or not to abortion, I resonated with her ideas that as women, “We believe that the choice we are making is the best one for ourselves and our babies”. I think in order to understand why abortion should be legal it is important to think about the quality of the chil

In class we often describe the fragility of many of the topics that seemed to be the main topics of conversation within your interviews. Did you experience this at all from the women you were questioning in terms of obvious discomfort or awkwardness? In the process of your interviews have you ever found it difficult to maintain a professional stance, in terms of sticking to the questions rather than resorting to sympathy, as you questioned the women?

I grew up surrounded with the belief that abortions are wrong and evil. I was told that one must wait until marriage to have sex and then a baby will come and you will live happily ever after. So when I heard of young women who went to get an abortion I pitied them and with my inherited opinions I believed that what they were doing was wrong. Eleanor Cooney doesn’t try to make abortion seem like a pleasant harmless experience for both the mother and soon to be dead baby. She talks about how the baby is crushed and in some cases can be torn out of the woman piece by piece. I won’t lie and say that abortions aren’t gruesome but at the same time I learned that it’s not my place to judge a woman and her choices. There are many reasons why women want to terminate their pregnancy and abortion is just an option that allows women to exercise the right to their own body. I found it really disturbing in the article by Cooney “ The Way It Was ” how a doctor sent her to have an abortion fro

Abortion itself has become one of the greatest controversies existing in our society today. It seems as though it is topic of just about person's conversation, but there is something that doesn't quite make sense about the reality of this. While I fully support the ideal that everyone is entitled to their own opinions, when it comes to actually taking action to destroy others rights to this, that is when the issue takes full force. In an debate like abortion, I think it is most important to remember who it is actually concerned with. Within her piece, "Abortion Is a Motherhood Issue," Judith Arcana discusses the extent to which abortion is a choice. It is not something that is decided carelessly or taken lightly in any way, which is something that many prol-life advocates have made uninformed misconceptions about. In our society abortion is viewed by many as immoral and shame-worthy, creating "woman-hating and mother-blaming" ideologies that we let dominat

Virginia Apgar, a talented and qualified surgeon and anesthesiologist Had it not been for Apgar’s score method, Babies who were born malformed or too small or just blue and not breathing well would still be listed as stillborn, placed out of sight, and left to die. I would not be alive today if it weren’t for Apgar’s ingenious score method. My twin brother and I were born very prematurely. Will weighed 1.5lbs and I weighed only 1lb. My brother and I were immediately whisked off to get intensive care where we remained for almost 2 months in the preemie-unit before we were allowed to go home. Will and I are alive today because of the nurse’s amazing and intensive care in the preterm unit. This being said, it did not come as a surprise to me that infant mortality rate is significantly lower than maternal mortality rate. It is simply because the infants are better taken care of than the mothers. However, this was not always the case. In his New Yorker article , Atul Gawande, explains