Scrafford Jonathan
Via Christi Health, Via Christi Clinic on Clifton, Wichita, KS, USA.
Linacre Q. 2018 Nov;85(4):327-330. doi: 10.1177/0024363918807684. Epub 2018 Nov 28.
Women's roles in society are changing. While most of those changes recognize and enhance the contributions of feminine ingenuity to human development, some threaten to isolate women physically, socially, and emotionally. Developments in reproductive health care, and the writings of Pope Saint John Paul II, offer lenses by which to evaluate the shifting landscape of women's role in society. On the one hand, practices such as contraception, abortion, surrogacy, and assisted reproductive technologies over time will weaken the physical, social, and emotional bonds that procreation has held between man and woman, parents and children, and families and society. On the other hand, the expansion of different modes of natural family planning and pregnancy support centers offers to preserve those bonds.
Women's role in families, and therefore society, is invaluable. Several approaches to reproductive health offered by medicine may isolate women over time, and some evidences suggest we are already seeing that effect. Other approaches to women's health may be able to preserve the physical, emotional, and social bonds that integrate women to the family, and therefore society.
女性在社会中的角色正在发生变化。虽然这些变化大多认可并增强了女性智慧对人类发展的贡献，但有些变化却有可能在生理、社交和情感方面使女性陷入孤立。生殖健康护理的发展以及教皇圣约翰·保罗二世的著作，为评估女性在社会中角色不断变化的格局提供了视角。一方面，随着时间的推移，诸如避孕、堕胎、代孕和辅助生殖技术等做法会削弱生育在男女之间、父母与子女之间以及家庭与社会之间所维系的生理、社交和情感纽带。另一方面，不同形式自然计划生育的推广以及怀孕支持中心则有助于维系这些纽带。
女性在家庭乃至社会中的角色至关重要。医学提供的几种生殖健康方法可能会随着时间的推移使女性孤立，一些证据表明我们已经看到了这种影响。其他关注女性健康的方法或许能够维系那些将女性融入家庭乃至社会的生理、情感和社交纽带。
