Women's Reproductive Rights
Women’s Identity: Women’s Reproductive Rights An important part of finding a women’s identity to reproductive rights you will have view various perspectives and the history behind it. You will have to understand the many influence in society such as race, gender, age and sexuality. This influences women’s roles as an individual, members of the family and society. In the movement for reproductive rights, women have been dominated by many different viewpoints to this subject. I am for women’s reproductive rights but there are many layers to this topic. Some I agree with and some I don’t. From my observation and reading in seems that since women have won the right to vote the feminist movement has gain some serious movement forward. Reproductive rights also opened doors for women but not all areas of this topic have been totally finalized. Since Margaret Sanger a supporter of birth control and Katharine McCormick a highly educated women have been birth control in support of women’s reproductive rights. These two women were able to push forward the development of the birth control pill. It was not until 1960 the government legalizes the production of the pill. I do not realize how the development of the pill freed women to have a career and fueled the women’s movement. I have always looked at the pill as a responsible way of birth control. Now that I have read, the women’s testimonies of how they feared having one child after another and how the pill impacted them to become productive members of society, and the work force. They were able to pursue other dreams and avenues that were slowly becoming available. As I read I see how women viewed home life was before the birth control pill as stated, “Our domestic life suddenly became quite complicated.” (Shulman, 1971, p.276). This was stated as women were having more children introduced in the home and their goals were being set aside. The pill set a different tone for women in society as supported by Bell Hooks,