Women’s healthcare has a crucial role in the dissemination of comprehensive gynecological and obstetrical care. Women’s care began long ago with pioneers such as Elizabeth Blackwell and Margaret singer during the 1860s to 1880s. They focus on disseminating information relating to the female body as well as public hygiene and sanitation. Factors such as sexual education, family planning, and birth control are significant to women’s healthcare (Kaelber, 2012). It gives a different view of how individuals view sex in various parts of the world. The social hygiene movement focused on decreasing the number of unwanted pregnancies through preventive medicine (Skjelver et al., 2017). This pushed pioneers of women’s health to emphasize women’s healthcare issues (Skjelver et al., 2017). With Eugenic sterilization, the individuals who had mental disorders were sterilized, making them unable to care for their future offspring (Kaelber, 2012). Women’s healthcare gives women quality care, whereas, in eugenic sterilization, the individuals are devoured the freedom of choice.
From Herbert Spencer’s law of organic progress, the development of language, government, commerce, science, society, and literature is through a differentiation process. The differentiation is similar to the society with women’s healthcare (“Modern history sourcebook,” 2021). The government intervention has to be reduced on women’s healthcare, especially in cases such as eugenic sterilization, where the disabled individuals in the society are sterilized forcefully without their consent (“Modern history sourcebook,” 2021). Herbert Spencer’s law shows that evolution in the community is inevitable, and women’s healthcare is also experiencing the same.
In conclusion, women’s healthcare is a crucial matter in the current society as it involves the well-being of the community. It is related to eugenic sterilization in that the individuals of the community are forcefully sterilized without their consent. Women’s healthcare is evolving according to the Herbert Spencer’s law and the government should intervene less on matters of women’s healthcare.
References
Modern history sourcebook: Herbert Spencer: Social Darwinism, 1857. (2021).
Kaelber, L. (2012). Eugenics: Compulsory sterilization in 50 American States.
Skjelver, D., Arnold, D., Broedel, H., Glasco, S., Kim, B., & Broedel, S. (2017). History of applied science & technology [Ebook]. The Digital Press.