If she was educated about the importance of prenatal testing Nahla might have been normal today. Sadly, many minority women avoid the distress and discomfot of the medical industry and refuse prenatal care entirely. The skepticism results from doctors failing to effectively communicate the reasons behind such testing and failing to provide the patients with information regarding what the prenatal test is looking for and what such results mean. Because there is a lack of clear communication, some mothers are uncomfortable about recieiving such
This was due to the doctors lack of knowledge on the black death, because it was new and spreading fast doctors had little understanding of what caused the disease they also didn’t have enough time to figure out a treatment for their patients before they died. Another reason why it was so terrible is that the doctors had never seen anything like this before. The patients first gained painful swellings called buboes, then came the vomiting and fever, next was bleeding under the skin, then lots of pain and spasms all to finish with a very agonising death. This all occurred over the course of 5 days. Therefore the doctors were unable to treat each of the patients because they did not know what was happening and didn’t know how to fix it.
Black women weren’t even allowed to keep their child even if they birthed them! White women and Black women were both struggling at gaining rights. During the early 19th Century women didn’t have the right to vote which created much frustration among women, they even weren’t allowed to run for the presidency just because they are a different gender. In the 19th Century men believed that women’s only job was to clean and cook for the family. Women in general back in the 19th Century didn’t have many rights, but Black women were definitely on the short end of the stick if you compared the rights between Black and White women.
The title, “White Lies,” you could describe as lies that don’t hurt anyone. In this poem you are led to believe that Natasha Tretheway lied about being white. She never actually lied, she just never told the complete truth. Even her mother believed she was lying about who she was and would wash her mouth out with soap to, “cleanse her lying tongue.” Natasha wore very nice dresses that her mother made for her, that led people to believe that
That this woman could offer so much reform and understanding for individuals without having a degree in this field is remarkable beyond words. She was an individual who did not want expressions of praise or gratitude for her work. She refused to have hospitals named after her; she desired that her achievements “rest in silence”. This remarkable woman has touched the lives of so many and it is because of her that we can not only thank for the humanity that she brought to the mentally ill but also gives us the knowledge that living conditions can determine the state of one’s
Were the experiments on African women to prevent infection with HIV of their babies like the Tuskegee Syphilis Study?” The experiments on the African women to prevent infection with HIV to their babies were exactly like the Tuskegee Syphilis study. The Government took advantage of these women because they are illiterate and not well educated enough to know what was going on. Even though they received “consent” from the women it still doesn’t make it right. According to the text these type of test were not allowed on the women of the United States but it was perfectly fine to perform them on African women. The victims of this experiment were black, poor, illiterate and victims of sexually transmitted diseases.
Stephanie Fairyington, the author of The Gay Option, described her personal experience of declaring her sexuality to her mother. Fairyington said that her mother felt relieved to find out that her lesbianism was not a choice and that her daughter was born that way. The author regretted her choice of words when telling her mother that she would not choose to be gay. She felt by saying that being a lesbian was not a choice had somehow made others feeling sorry for and pity the LGBT community. Fairyington writes about how if society thinks that being gay is not a choice it labels them as abnormal.
Amanda kept a lot of secrets to herself, like that she was pregnant and that she was black mailing Cherry’s dad. When Amanda’s body was found down at the waterfront it turned out that she was pregnant. No-body knew about this, not her friends or her boyfriend, not even her family knew about this. In the novel Kate stated that she knew nothing of this. She said “There were things Amanda wasn’t telling her.” Amanda didn’t share a lot of her secrets with the people in the group which just shows that the group didn’t really know her at all.
Mary Fisher uses her own personal HIV diagnosis as a powerful tool to draw in her audience and get her point across. She stresses that she contracted HIV from her husband but that her blessing was that her children did not have the virus. After reading
As a result, many of these women resort to prostitution for money, and can contract the virus that way as well. For many women, especially African American women, it is difficult to find places to work when you have very little education and job experience. Many people in this situation find themselves with no other options than to either degrade themselves for money, or stealing for food, alcohol and drugs. This is very dangerous for the African American community and in a way, can be seen as a way of holding the community back and not advancing ourselves higher as a race. In a recent journal article by The New York Times, it mentions that AIDS is a huge epidemic in the African American community and is becoming more widely spread and is becoming referred to as the “black