Amid the applause of 1,100 guests, the Women’s Way 32nd Annual Powerful Voice Awards were presented in Philadelphia on May 6, 2009. The awards honored the accomplishments of Women Organized Against Rape (WOAR) Director Teresa White, community organizer and HIV/AIDS awareness advocate Waheedah Shabazz-El, and women’s rights advocate and activist, Hysterectomy Educational Resources and Services… Read More…
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The ovary option
There has been a media blitz surrounding recent discussion of the pros and cons of surgical removal of the ovaries during hysterectomy (see Cochrane article below). But the most important issue has yet to be addressed: the uterus should rarely be removed in the first place. The article below perpetuates a dangerous myth through the… Read More…
Removal of one or both ovaries increases incidence of cognitive loss
HERS Foundation said…This article is soon to be published in the Journal ‘Neurology’. Many hysterectomized and castrated women experience memory problems that began after the surgery. Because they are often ridiculed by doctors for connecting their memory problems to their surgery their concerns and experiences are often trivialized by family and friends. The Real Experts… Read More…
Hysterectomy Myths vs Facts
Female Anatomy Exposed: 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… Read More…
Can you answer these questions?
Can you guess the answers to these questions? ____________ True or False? ☐ Castration, neutering and removal of both ovaries arethe same. ☐ Sex life is better after hysterectomy. ☐ Death from heart disease is more likely in hysterectomizedwomen than in normal women. ☐ Hysterectomy has no effect on men’s sex lives.____________ Hysterectomy: exactly what… Read More…