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Women have faced many challenges concerning their health throughout history. Currently AIDS and breast cancer have been two major health challenges in our society today. Women are degraded and humiliated by the medical industry. Medicalization is a term that is defined as a process where normal body functions begin to be viewed as indicative of disease. This affects women because women have more periodic changes in their bodies and because medicalization supports business and medical technologies instead of preventive medicines it promotes sophisticated medicine technologies.
Reproductive rights and women's health are important facets of the women's movement because a woman's reproductive rights are directly related to her health. For example, if a woman is bearing a child but finds out that carrying the baby full term will be detrimental to her health in the future or that she is risking her own life then she has two choices. Her choices are to take the risk of carrying the......

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