How Our Bodies Ourselves help lower the hurdle of Healthcare

Our Bodies, Ourselves  was first by a group of women in 1969 when they sat down and started discussing issues like pregnancy, menstruation, and sex otherwise known as the things no one ever talks about. One of the other topics talked about was ways to combat the patriarchal society surrounding the medical field and how women's voices are dismissed as hysterical and overly-emotional when discussing their own bodies. A group of women all got together to discuss  while this was over 47 years ago the issues they discussed then are still under discussed now or misinformation is given out as a way to scare women into what some people consider is "appropriate" behavior.

Not only sexual education in the US is censored in the public. Many "women's issues" like menstruation and the pain that it causes is barely discussed. Many of my friends and family members have had doctors diminish or excuse their pain, especially when its associated with menstruation. Their pain is passed off as normal, and they are considered to be blowing out of proportion. In Doing Harm by Maya Dusenbery, they discuss how there has always been a dismal of women's concerns about their own bodies. One study that was talked about in this article was about uterine cancer where all the participants in the study were men. How do you even do that? Did no one tell these doctors of philosophy that men don't have uteruses? They just don't. Another problem women face in the medical field is the spread of mis-information. Some groups spread false information like abortion causes infertility or sends you to hell. They use scare tactics and attempt to strong-arm women into doing what they whether or not its whats good for the woman they are talking to. It would be one thing if the groups just did this online but the groups have started crisis pregnancy centers which give mis-information about pregnancy and abortion such as how long you have to decide to get an abortion, who can get an abortion, and what an abortion does to your body. And the best part none of it has to be true. According to John Oliver's video on Crisis pregnancy centers can say almost anything like abortion cause breast cancer and suicidal tendencies.

And its completely legal because they're are actually a medical center.

There is also miscommunication on what birth control does. Some groups attempt to say that birth control causes infertility permanently or they want to ban it because it "encourages unladylike" behavior. If there is less access to birth control, women are less in control of their bodies and what happens to them.

Our Bodies Ourselves helps conquer the medical field and make it helps us instead of diminishing our concerns. It gives people information about sex, birth control, and abortion in a way that doesn't shame people for using it or not using it. It just gives you the facts which acts a a bodyguard against all the BS that flung at women on a daily basis about there bodies. This book is so important because it doesn't try to trick people into doing what some else wants it gives the information that people want to know and lets them choose what they do with it. It never screams at them about unborn babies or shames them for not knowing the difference between the pill and an IUD. It allows women to have a safe, calm place where they can learn what's been hidden form them. This book and the information it holds allows women to have a voice and back it up. If you read about an illness and you have those symptoms this book arms with a name for that illness to take to the doctor's office and wield to get the best care possible for yourself. This book is important because now women no longer have to take the word of their doctor or an online site, that may be bias, word as law, but can instead find what's their truth and protect themselves in a system that's not built to protect them.