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The Feminist Women’s Health Center of Atlanta is a feminist health center that provides comprehensive gynecological health care, engages in community outreach, and advocates for reproductive justice. ==History== The Feminist Women’s Health Center (FWHC) was founded in 1977. Like many other feminist health centers, the Atlanta FWHC was born out of self-help groups, where women learned to examine their own cervixes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= History, Mission, and Values )〕 The Atlanta Feminist Women’s Health Center was a member clinic of the Federation of Feminist Women’s Health Centers (FFWHC). The Federation of Feminist Women’s Health Centers originated in Los Angeles, and subsequently member clinics opened throughout California and eventually other parts of the country, including Tallahassee, Florida and Atlanta, Georgia. Women’s health movement historian Sandra Morgen notes, “Until the National Black Women’s Health Project… in the 1980s, the FFWHC was the only multiple-site group in the larger women’s health movement.” All member clinics provided abortion and gynecological health care, and worked together to “espouse a unified ideology and identifiable politics.”〔Morgen, 100.〕 The FFWHC member clinics stood out from others in the women’s health movement because they adopted a more hierarchal model when other feminist clinics were operating as collectives. The debate and dispute over the FFWHC’s mode of operation reached a point where some women’s health centers refused to refer clients to FFWHC clinics for abortions. In 1990, Carol Downer, founder of the Los Angeles FWHC and leader in the women’s health movement, responded to the controversy: “Most of the criticisms I’ve heard revolve around hierarchy… I might say it was the difference between being organized and disorganized… It’s hard for me to understand why anyone who goes into a political arena doesn’t want to be as organized as they can possibly be… if you really are serious about what you are doing. Because otherwise you are the mercy of these larger forces which are organized.” 〔Morgen, 104.〕 A few years after moving their headquarters to Eugene, Oregon,〔 〕 the costs of operating the FFWHC offices proved too expensive. Although the member clinics stay in touch, they are no longer formally connected as a federation.〔Morgen, 105.〕 However, most of these clinics, including the Atlanta FWHC, are now part of a new consortium of women’s health care providers, the Feminist Abortion Network. Today, the Atlanta Feminist Women’s Health Center is one of several extant feminist health centers. Many clinics closed their doors as a result of financial worries; threats, harassment, and violent attacks; or from competition from other health-care providers, including national chains such as Planned Parenthood and for-profit women’s health centers. Although the Atlanta FWHC certainly faced many of the same problems as the clinics that closed, they have not only managed to remain open, but continue to provide a wide array of health services and outreach programs to meet the needs of the Atlanta community. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Feminist Women's Health Center (Atlanta, Georgia)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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