It may seem hypocritical to claim that women continue to be oppressed in the United States and globally as I write this article in a studio apartment from which I am free to come and go at will, and which I am able to afford on my own due to a successful career. Yet, when a 25-year-old Polish woman is denied medical treatment because it might risk her pregnancy and never told why, thus denying her the choice to seek other treatment, I am reminded that government and society are too willing to sacrifice my life simply because I am a woman.