Women's Health is Key to Quality Health Care
March 1, 2024
As we start Women's History Month this year, the United States faces major challenges from policymakers and lawyers/judges in the court system who are motivated to keep women without reproductive health or choice. This is demolishing the quality of the healthcare movement for a patient-centered, team approach between patient and physician, culturally sensitive/language appropriate and respectful, and accessible/affordable/transparent. By leaving women out of healthcare, we are seeing the closing of hospitals (especially rural hospitals), a decrease in OB-GYN specialists practicing or applications to the field, and physicians not willing to lose their licenses over policies that go against a physician's oath to "do no harm". We expect to see the loss of female contraception products available in this nation. Young women must be educated to vote for women's health advocates to become activists for their generation and rid the system of the anti-women people in the power structure of the United States. In my generation I applaud the activists who believed in women enjoying quality healthcare.