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- Title
Learning from Me Too.
- Authors
Zacharias, Rachel L.
- Abstract
Abstract: For the past year, many around the world have said, “Me Too.” Women, trans folks, and increasingly men have shared their experiences of sexual assault, harassment, and unhealthy power dynamics in their personal and professional relationships. These experiences were not a surprise to people in bioethics, especially as they relate to the control of women's bodies and behaviors that we have observed in medicine, law, and society. In The Hastings Center's work in reproductive contexts, I have learned about women whose reproductive decisions or choices are negatively affected by external forces—either by restrictive laws and policies, explicit counsel from their physicians, or implicit pressures placed on them by society. Any person with a uterus can be forced to take contraceptives if they want access to other medications that could harm a fetus, even when they are not sexually active with men. And some women of color are criminalized for miscarriages. How can those of us working in reproductive ethics be even more attentive to these experiences and to the impact of gendered power dynamics on reproductive decision‐making?
- Subjects
REPRODUCTIVE health laws; PERSONAL beauty; BODY image; CONTRACEPTION; DECISION making; EXPERIENCE; INTERPERSONAL relations; INTERPROFESSIONAL relations; MISCARRIAGE; SEX crimes; SEXUAL harassment; SOCIAL skills; WOMEN
- Publication
Hastings Center Report, 2018, Vol 48, Issue 4, pinside bac
- ISSN
0093-0334
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/hast.860