The medical field has a long history of conceptualizing women's reproductive processes as illnesses that require treatment, and this has come at many costs, including excessive Cesarean deliveries, hysterectomies and prescribed hormone treatments that have harmed rather than enhanced women's health.
Medicinsko polje ima  dugu povijest gledanja na ženski reproduktivni proces, kao na bolesti koje zahtijevaju liječenje, i to je došlo na naplatu,uključujući  pretjeran broj poroda carskim rezom, histeroktomiju i propisane tretmane hormonima koji su više pogoršali nego poboljšali zdravlje žena.