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September 9, 2011 206 Comments

The tide is turning!

The tide is turning! “I am still hoping to hear more about women who are past it all because they said no. It would be comforting to know there are women out there who had the same horrible symptoms, a big fat confused uterus, lived with  it, resisted hysterectomy and are now through menopause and…   Read More…

February 25, 2010 11 Comments

Congresswoman Maloney (NY) To Be Keynote Speaker at Hysterectomy Conference April 24th, 2010

Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (NY) will deliver the Keynote Address at the HERS Foundation’s 28th Hysterectomy Conference, Saturday April 23rd at the Hilton Hotel in Manhattan. Maloney, a Democrat from New York, is a powerful advocate for women’s rights, allied with such organizations as Emily’s List and the National Organization for Women. In 2008, she…   Read More…

July 26, 2009 28 Comments

New study shows link between female castration and lung cancer

Ovary Removal May Play a Role in Lung Cancer A new Canadian study reports that castration (removal of the female gonads, the ovaries) almost doubles a younger woman’s risk for developing lung cancer. “It’s possible that vulnerability to lung cancer is caused by early and sudden decrease in estrogen levels or potentially long-term use of…   Read More…

April 13, 2009 118 Comments

Fraud and Hysterectomy

Fraud in the inducement is a legal term used to describe a scenario where one person has tricked or deceived another into a harmful situation they would not have entered into if they had known they would be harmed. In the example of hysterectomy, a woman is induced into signing a consent form under the…   Read More…

January 7, 2009 206 Comments

NAME THAT DOCTOR AND HOSPITAL

       NAME THAT DOCTOR AND HOSPITAL I am Nora W. Coffey,  president of the Hysterectomy Educational Resources and Services (HERS) Foundation.   When I was thirty-six years old, I was hysterectomized and castrated by Robert Giuntoli, at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, and his assistant Douglas Rabin. I was not informed…   Read More…

November 22, 2008 41 Comments

Seeing The Uterus and Ovaries is Believing.

If the female sex organs were visible like the male sex organs, would they still be removed from 622,000 women each year? Myth: “Only men have gonads.” Fact:  A woman’s gonads are her ovaries. Removal of the ovaries is castration, and the aftereffects are to women what the aftereffects of removal of the testicles are…   Read More…

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