Women

Between the two articles the Weitz article really stood out to me and related so much to the article on the two conjoined twins Duan and Dao. When the doctors were separating them they made sure to state that both girls would be deemed “normal” because they both would have reproductive organs and be able to bare children. The Weitz article talked about the definition of being a woman is the ability to have bear children. Is that how women are viewed; not only yesterday, but today?  Duan and Dao where born in the 1990’s and still they were seen as a person based upon their organs. When we see a women an older women without any children we as a society ask ourselves what is wrong with her. When we see an older man do we ask the same questions?

 Another interesting fact brought up in the Weitz article was that women today are still being denied jobs because the working conditions could harm a pregnant workers fetus but they let a man do the same job that could potential damage the man’s sperm.  Shouldn’t men and women  carry the same risks … every human gets half the genetic makeup of both parents .

-Sarah Fiorella