I suppose what concerns me is seeing SO many questions on the topic in general. Y! Answers is flooded with questions having to do with the topic in general.
I did an average count of women’s topics to others and it is quite high in comparison to other topics.
Does that mean we are not educating individuals enough about the topics of womens health?
One in four girls in the U.S. under 18 years old has an STD. Three million teen girls in the U.S. alone have an STD, many of which cause infertility. "HPV, which can cause cervical cancer, is the most prevalent STD in that study. Nearly half of all African American females tested had at least one STD. Doctors: Screening, vaccination, prevention among highest health priorities". (CDC)
With worldwide fertility rates falling to alarming near species-ending lows due to STD’s, increased UV damage to eggs secondary to global warming and to environmental pollution, sex education that is objective is now a top priority. The CDC found the Christian-based "Abstinence Only" shut-down of sex education in public schools to be directly correlational with the STD epidemic among girls. Children have unalienable rights, including an objective education about their own bodies, contrary to "traditional" or conservative superstition/ignorance based initiatives of abstinence and Christian kinky-stinky "Purity Balls", for example. lol. Children are DEFINATELY not getting that objective education anymore.
Also, women’s health is a relatively new field of research. Until the 1990′s, women were not even required to be included as subjects in medical research and yet, as now known, thanks to feminism, women and men respond significantly differently to nutritional and pharmacological interventions, for example. Most nutritional and pharmacological research has been based on MALE anatomy and physiology only, secondary the sexism of the male body being the "right" body or gold standard and second-class treatment women have traditionally experienced in health care. Massive "catch-up’s" are occuring related to CYA liability and need to differentiate male/female responses to interventions which is already benefitting both sexes.
Any woman who feels she might have been harmed due to this sexism, especially with pharmaceuticals, should investigate the anti-sexism in medical research and health care class action suits related to her health condition and discuss this with an attorney. Until women AND men become MUCH better educated about women’s health and until women become MUCH more vocal in this matter (and nothing helps get men’s attention better than suing them), women’s health will continue to suffer and taxpayers will pay for it as the health care system continues to collapse under Conservative anti-society self-serving moronic "initiatives" which invariably leave society with a horrible mess to clean up after their subjective fantasies prove to be utter failures.
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