WS 201 chapter 7
According to the most recent Gallup poll, what percentage of Americans believe that abortion should be legal in some or all circumstances?
70
By the year 2030, women will make up what percentage of people over 85 years?
81
Whose motto is "pro-woman pro-life"?
Feminists for Life
The "Laci Peterson law"
Gave a fetus the same rights as the mother
The Supreme Court ruling that removed the ban on abortion occurred when?
1973
Aisha Wagner ("Doctors Need to Talk Openly about Race") argues that doctors need to talk openly about race to their patients for which of the following reasons?
A and B; Doctors need to better understand patients' racialized treatment experiences Doctors can help transform the way that people of color are treated in the U.S. health care system
In "Offline," Richard Horton insists that public health professionals do which of the following?
A and B; Join the public discussion about xenophobia and racism Focus on populations that are the most vulnerable
Kate Horowitz ("Performance of a Lifetime") argues that medical professionals need to
A and B; Listen carefully to their patients' subjective experiences Focus on symptoms that are seemingly unrelated
The 1992 Supreme Court ruling Planned Parenthood v. Casey
A and B; Upheld parental notification Upheld limitations on public spending on abortion
The HIV infection rate for African American women is nearly how many times as great than that for white women?
20 times
In "Reproductive Rights as Human Rights," Sarah Combellick-Bidney argues that the issue of contemporary abortion rights is particularly complicate to navigate in India for which of the following reasons?
A history of sex-selective abortions
Jallicia Jolly ("On Forbidden Wombs and Transnational Reproductive Justice") argues that state-sanctioned violence against women of color includes the following:
All of the above; Involuntary mass sterilization Murders by law enforcement Removal of children from their mothers Destruction of the welfare system
According Sarah Combellick-Bidney, author of "Reproductive Rights as Human Rights," telling stories of individuals in the Global South can help bolster the connection between human rights and reproductive rights because stories help
All of the above; Translate issues across diverse publics Destigmatize reproductive issues Humanize statistics Dispel stereotypes
In "On Being Transnational and Transgender," Don Operario and Tooru Nemoto argue that transgender rights must be acknowledged within a larger human rights framework in order to
All of the above; Provide a justification for allowing transgender immigrants to enter the U.S. illegally Treat transgender people affected by communicable diseases Address the needs of individual immigrants to the U.S. Address the needs of transgender people globally within a human rights framework
In "On Being Transnational and Transgender," Don Operario and Tooru Nemoto note that transgender women often face violence and discrimination from
Both (c) and (d); Religious authorities Employers
What disease discussed in Chapter 7 on women and health is discussed in the context of corporate responsibility and environmental issues?
Breast cancer
What laws regulated contraception in the U.S.?
Comstock Laws
The Hyde Amendment and accompanying Supreme Court ruling (Beal v. Doe, 1977) gave the states the right to
Decide whether Medicaid funds would be spent on abortion
Jallicia Jolly ("On Forbidden Wombs and Transnational Reproductive Justice") argues that a transnational approach to reproductive justice will allow scholars and activists to
Envision strategies to support multiply marginalized women of color across the world
AIDS diagnoses for African American women are increasing at a lesser rate than those for white women.
F
According to Jallicia Jolly ("On Forbidden Wombs and Transnational Reproductive Justice"), proponents of reproductive justice focus solely on abortion rights.
F
Aisha Wagner ("Doctors Need to Talk Openly about Race") celebrates the intensive education she received in medical school that explained and validated the Black community's distrust of the medical practitioners.
F
Androcentrism in health care implies the ways the health care system in the U.S. is set up to maintain the privileges of white people and provide differential access for people of color.
F
Approximately 2,000 women become pregnant every year because of rape.
F
As a result of environmental toxins, the average man has 20% more testosterone than his father did 20 years ago.
F
At least two-thirds of all women accessing an abortion would have an illegal abortion if the procedure was no longer legal.
F
Don Operario and Tooru Nemoto ("On Being Transnational and Transgender") note that transgender women who live in the Global South do not generally face the same levels of violence as those who live in the Global North.
F
Feminists have set up Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) to support women's choices for abortion.
F
In "Offline," Richard Horton argues that medical and public health professionals do not have a role in the fight against hate, racism, xenophobia, and terror.
F
International laws offer strict protections for the reproductive rights of people affected with HIV/AIDS (Sarah Combellick-Bidney/"Reproductive Rights as Human Rights").
F
On average, a woman in pain in the emergency room gets treated an average of 16 minutes faster than a man in pain in the emergency room (Kate Horowitz/"Performance of a Lifetime").
F
RU-486 (mifeprex TM) is a type of emergency contraception or "morning-after pill."
F
Sarah Combellick-Bidney's article "Reproductive Rights as Human Rights" provides a comprehensive description of reproductive rights in the Global South.
F
The U.S. health care system is known as the best in the industrialized world.
F
The concept of a two-tier system as used in Chapter 7 implies a medical system that provides exceptional care in the US, but poor care overseas.
F
The worst stress for the human body is that which we intentionally choose in order to compete in a capitalist society.
F
The contraceptive depo-provera:
Is an injection of synthetic hormone that suppresses ovulation
When did the Supreme Court remove the ban on contraceptives for married persons?
Mid 1960s
Aisha Wagner ("Doctors Need to Talk Openly about Race") discusses the ways that people of color have been discriminated against in the healthcare system. Which of the following is not related to a discriminatory practice?
None, they all relate to discriminatory practices
Eugenics is the practice and belief that:
Only certain groups should reproduce
What Supreme Court ruling removed the states' ban on abortion?
Roe v Wade
According to Jallicia Jolly ("On Forbidden Wombs and Transnational Reproductive Justice"), intersectionality serves as a theoretical framework for the reproductive justice movement.
T
Aisha Wagner ("Doctors Need to Talk Openly about Race") notes that Black women are three times more likely to die because of pregnancy-related causes than White women.
T
As a result of lawsuits associated with unanticipated side effects, the maker of Norplant no longer markets this device in the United States.
T
Don Operario and Tooru Nemoto ("On Being Transnational and Transgender") note that transgender women attempt to immigrate to the U.S. from Mexico because they experience systemic gender violence in their home country.
T
EC or the "morning-after pill" was approved by the FDA in the late 1990s.
T
False Conversion disorder is a modern-day diagnosis for hysteria (Kate Horowitz/"Performance of a Lifetime").
T
In "Offline," Richard Horton argues that politicians' racist rhetoric has a direct and negative impact on citizens' health.
T
In "Offline," Richard Horton argues that public health professionals have compromised their positions as leaders for social and political reforms.
T
In 2009 over two-thirds of uninsured women lived in families where they or a partner worked full time.
T
In her article "Reproductive Rights as Human Rights," Sarah Combellick-Bidney makes the case that human rights and reproductive rights are intersectional and interdependent.
T
In her essay "Performance of a Lifetime," Kate Horowitz argues that doctors told her that her illness was psychological because she is a woman.
T
In many states pharmacists can use "refusal clauses" to prevent providing medication to women like the "morning-after pill."
T
In their article "On Being Transnational and Transgender," Don Operario and Tooru Nemoto argue that anti-transgender bias and structural violence are two enduring issues facing transgender people.
T
It is estimated that approximately 1 in 8 women will develop breast cancer in their lifetimes.
T
Medicalization is the process whereby normal functions of the body come to be seen as indicative of disease.
T
Native American women are among the largest group of women in U.S. society who have been sterilized against their will.
T
The Affordable Care Act is President Barack Obama's signature policy.
T
The now banned chemicals DDT and PCB are examples of xenoestrogens.
T
The term misogynoir was coined by Moya Bailey to describe the intersection of racism, misogyny, and anti-Blackness (Jallicia Jolly/"On Forbidden Wombs and Transnational Reproductive Justice").
T
U.S. women can use federal funds for sterilization procedures but not for abortions (Aisha Wagner/"Doctors Need to Talk Openly about Race").
T
Women are having children later in life today than they have in earlier times.
T
In "Offline," Richard Horton argues that terrorists emerge from which kinds of communities?
Those where citizens lack health care, jobs, safety
Kate Horowitz argues that medical students are not taught about hEDS, pots, and mcas because those diseases are
Usually diagnosed in women
The contraceptive practice that protects against HIV infection is:
condom
The hormone "patch" such as OrthoEvra must be changed
weekly
