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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Fibroids: you never need a hysterectomy for fibroids
The most common reason hysterectomy is performed is for fibroids. Most fibroids don’t cause any symptoms and rarely cause a true medical problem. But if you had symptoms that were more than annoying, if they really impacted your ability to function, there would be no reason to undergo a hysterectomy. If you are told that… Read More…
HERS Gives Gynecologists Female Anatomy Lesson
HERS Gives Gynecologists Female Anatomy Lesson: 12-Minute Video To Save More Than $17B/year The sex organs are removed from another woman in this country every minute of every hour of every day. A statistically insignificant number of men have their sex organs removed, even though the rate of cancer in the male and female organs… Read More…
Petition to Stop Unconsented, Unwarranted and Unwanted Hysterectomy
Can you imagine a country where the sex organs are removed from 622,000 mothers, sisters, daughters, lovers, and friends each year? That country is the United States of America. Sign the Petition at http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/saynotilyouknow/ Join thousands of women and men and sign the Petition to make sure that every woman and girl who is told… Read More…
Fibroids: you never need a hysterectomy for fibroids
Fibroids are benign growths of muscle and connective tissue that grow until you reach menopause. Then they slowly and gradually shrink to a negligible size, at which time they will be small and calcified. The average size of the uterus including fibroids in the late thirties to early forties is a ten to twelve week… Read More…
Hysterectomy and the Loss of Uterine Orgasm
Most women are taught little about the functions of the female organs beyond iinformation about menstruation and pregnancy. The uterus and ovaries are the female hormone-responsive reproductive sex organs. The female organs are internal and their functions are not visible. Most women and men know more about the functions of male reproductive sex organs than… Read More…