Wk9: Health & Reproduction (science and the body)
Assigned Readings
Mon
Andersen, Ch7: Women, Health, and Reproduction
SNL Leslie Jones skit (https://youtu.be/5tMhwbN84gU)
In-class look at
Low levels of sex amongst new
See recent bans on abortion, changes in Title X funding
Fertility Rates - and gender
Maternal Mortality & Infant Mortality
Thu
Nora Kizer Bell - Women and AIDS: Too Little, Too Late (http://tinyurl.com/hjkb3s9)
Nora Kizer Bell - Women and AIDS: Too Little, Too Late (http://tinyurl.com/hjkb3s9)
CDC HIV Report (also see https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/index.html)
Abortion Data - 2014
Who is having abortions? (age, race, religion, income)
by Age:
0.2% < 15
3% : 15-17
8% : 18-19
34% : 20-24
27% : 25-29
Notice that by ages 20-29, 61% of all abortions.
by Race:
39% : Whites
28% : Blacks
25% : Hispanics
9% : other races and ethnicities
by Religion:
17% : mainline Protestant
13% : evangelical Protestant
24% : Catholic
38% : no religious affiliation
8% : some other affiliation
by Income:
75% : poor or low-income
26% : incomes of 100–199% of the federal poverty level
49% : incomes < 100% of the federal poverty level ($15,730 for a family of two)
by Weeks:
88.8% : < 12 weeks
66% < 8 weeks
14.5% : 9 - 10 weeks
8.3% : 11 - 12 weeks
11.2% : > 12 weeks
6.2% : 13 - 15 weeks
3.8% : 16 - 20 weeks
1.3% : > 21 weeks
Recent Developments:
"heartbeat" bills - "banning abortion as soon as a heartbeat can be detected";
Tennessee, Ohio, Iowa
Alabama
No abortion after 0 weeks.
No exceptions for rape or incest.
Allows exceptions if the woman's life is threatened.
update 10/29/19: All the near-total abortion bans passed this year have now been blocked in court
Arkansas
No abortion after 18 weeks.
Allows exceptions for rape, incest or medical emergencies.
Georgia
No abortion after 6 weeks.
Allows exceptions if the woman's life is endangered, if the pregnancy is deemed "medically futile" and in cases of rape or incest if the woman files a police report.
Kentucky
No abortion after 6 weeks.
No exceptions for rape or incest.
Allows exceptions if the woman's life is endangered.
Louisiana
No abortion after 6 weeks.
No exceptions for rape or incest.
Allows exceptions if the woman's life is endangered or if the pregnancy is deemed "medically futile."
update 10/4/2019 - The Supreme Court just announced it will hear the first big abortion case of the Kavanaugh era
Requires doctors performing abortions to have admitting rights at hospitals
Mississippi
No abortion after 6 weeks.
No exceptions for rape or incest.
Allows exceptions if the woman's life is endangered.
Missouri
No abortion after 8 weeks.
No exceptions for rape or incest.
Allows exceptions if the woman's life is endangered.
Ohio
No abortion after 6 weeks.
No exceptions for rape or incest.
Allows exceptions if the woman's life is endangered.
Utah
No abortion after 18 weeks.
Allows exceptions for rape or incest if the doctor performing the abortion verifies that the incident was reported to law enforcement.
Allows exceptions if the woman's life is endangered.
In the 50 states and the District of Columbia only:
Southern states: approximately 46% of all people with HIV at the end of 2015.d States reporting the highest rates of people with HIV are predominantly in the South and the Northeast.
An estimated 86% (960,351) of people were aware of their infection at the end of 2015. But in 12 out of 17 Southern states, estimated percentage of people aware of their infection was lower than the national estimate.
Fertility Rates
Total Fertility Rate 2019 by Country - World Population Review
see US
see United Arab Emirates
Saudi Arabia
from Our World in Data "The primary reason for this is a large male migrant stock: in 2017, 45 percent of the Oman and 88 percent of the UAE population were from immigration.2 The UN reports that only 16 and 25 percent of international migrants to Oman and UAE, respectively, were female."
Maternal and Infant Mortality
HIV / AIDS
prevalence - estimated 1.1 million in USA living with HIV
42% : Black/African-Americans
incidence - by Race/Ethnicity:
43% : Black/African/American
26% : White
26% : Hispanic/Latino
1% : American Indian/Native Alaskan
HIV diagnoses by region - data CDC
In the news:
Unraveling an HIV cluster - Washington Post
Feb 2019: 6 cases
Mar 2019: 28 cases
Sep 2019: 80 cases
April and late June - avg 1 case / week
June and late Aug - avg 2 cases / week
