When it comes to the medicalization of women, many of the comments did tend to dodge the simple fact that at least since the main three "desert" religions were all in practice, women as a whole didn't have full control over their bodies, lives, and the decisions they made with them. This underlines a huge reason to the control given to men when being part of the patriarchal society/religion. Even with the issues on abortion and even how childbirth for women has always been a somewhat of an issue. When we talked about men having medical control of women, even to say that various expectations of men and women were socially emphasized from competitiveness; I agree. To comment on Jordan's "bring home the bacon" point of view, I believe that having a wife was not just a reason to have someone bring home the bacon to, but rather to have their wife reproduce a family, mainly male, for heirs to their family. So, looking at it this way, it is more of a "bacon legacy" ideal. There have been many examples of men and even women leaders to produce, usually a male heir to continue legacies.
As in looking at birth, I feel that there should be more and more women who should be sitting on these panels for discussions and awareness on abortion, gynecology, and childbirth, not just a majority of men. I feel that this will help give female trust in the medical world for help to take care of themselves and their children
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