Why are women’s health and reproductive rights considered important aspects of attaining gender equality?

Dick Maisenbacher: i want rights to my own body, reproductive system included. if we don't have rights to our body how can that ever be equality?

Giovanna Sherlin: It's important for the quality of life for men too, but it more directly affects women. It's because being pregnant constantly while caring for several kids can keep many women from participating in society. It also burdens men. Having 12 kids per couple isn't helpful for the couple in our society. It is possible for some rich people, but most people aren't rich, and kids usually aren't helping them at work (the way kids can help on, say, a farm)....Show more

Luke Kosch: Neither gender's health is more important than the other. Both have separate health matters, therefore separate health issues.Same as reproductive rights. Both genders have the rights over their own reproductive system. Both genders are aware of the potential outcome of a sexual encounter.

Coleman Deliberato: If there e! xist an inequality of reproductive rights that society burdens upon humans, I can't figure out how it favors men such that women have to fight to gain an equal footing with men in reproduction.

Gwenda Micheals: A pregnancy occurr and it was unintentional. The young mom ask the young dad if he will help her raise their child. The young boy says no thanks, I am too young. He runs away. The young girl realizes she is not capable of raising this unwanted child all alone because this child could be the next angry child who will do what is happening to Boston and the bombs. The young dad ran away even if he too is JUST AS responsible for that child being in the uterus of his girlfriend as she is. If he can run away and abdicate his responsiblities, who are WE, as a society, to not let her decide AS WELL as the daddy, that she too cannot assume this huge responsibility? Just because she is the female? To attain gender equality, we better believe in it....Show more