175 Years of Injustice: Equal OB/GYN Services for Black Women Is a Civil Right

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For centuries, America’s population of Black women has been subject to medical mistreatment. Today, it is time for actionable and applicable change.

Actionable and applicable change starts with knowledge.

Actionable and applicable change starts with facts; facts over 175 years in the making.

Over 175 years ago, in 1844, enslaved plantation workers, Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsy, were delivered to Dr. J. Marion Sims of Montgomery Alabama in search for a cure for the women’s postnatal loss of bowel and bladder control. The painful loss of bladder and bowel control disabled the three women and they were deemed unproductive as slaves. Remedy was sought – not for their pain – but for their failure to work the fields as productive assets...

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