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History of Feminism

marym625

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7. Not surprising

Reply to mercuryblues (Original post)

Sun Feb 15, 2015, 08:13 PM

Feb 2015

Just despicable. Outrageous. Horrifying. Inexcusable. But not surprising.

Just like most women dying from a hysterectomy, they, the first, were really just guinea pigs without anesthesia. I'm sure that more slaves were used than we'll ever know. Probably didn't record those failures.

And in the US, more hysterectomies are performed than anywhere else in the world.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysterectomy

2003, over 600,000 hysterectomies were performed in the United States alone, of which over 90% were performed for benign conditions.[1] Such rates being highest in the industrialized world has led to the major controversy that hysterectomies are being largely performed for unwarranted and unnecessary reasons

And we all know why they named it hysterectomy in the first place, to remove the hysteria.

Men.

Thanks for the post. Great information.

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For Lucy and Anarcha [View all] mercuryblues Feb 2015 OP

Thanks for all the research, mercuryblues. sheshe2 Feb 2015 #1

I wish mercuryblues Feb 2015 #2

Go see a response from Triana here. sheshe2 Feb 2015 #3

I think I am mercuryblues Feb 2015 #4

I think that you summed it up in a nutshell, merc. sheshe2 Feb 2015 #6

I just cross posted this to the African American Group sheshe2 Feb 2015 #5

Not surprising marym625 Feb 2015 #7