I Left My Uterus in Mississippi - AfroChat - African American

Ifayomi · September 25th, 2006, 10:21 AM

New audio on Some of Us Are Brave Radio

" In Mississippi, for example, '60% of women aged 65 and older have had hysterectomies; Black women are impacted more … one out of three women over the age of 18 no longer have a uterus. Chances of having a hysterectomy dramatically increase if you are Black, poor, in the State of Mississippi and have a male gynecologist …' "

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jamesfrmphilly · September 25th, 2006, 02:42 PM

that's one way to shut some of dem negroes up..........

Baba Ahmed · September 25th, 2006, 04:03 PM

Ifayomi this is not news, as u probably know. The State of Virginia fairly recently just outlawed uninformed hysterctomies that of course were b n perpetrated against yung Black sistas. Some mid teenagers! I think it was 1991 or so.

Well bruhman u kno my vibe re America's AMA and its siamese twin the pharmaceutical cartel; if not I likened it to an updated slick form of mediSin as practiced in Apartheid South Afrikkka. The Tuskeegee "Experiment" means next to nothing to many of us who still trust america's medical practicioners. We be the guinea pigs!

BTW Mississippi isn't the only culpert in missing uteruses. Everything below the Kanadian border is SOUTH.

jimihaze · October 5th, 2006, 11:34 PM

This is still happening here in florida. we really need be more informed when we go to the doctor. Mothers should really talk to there daughters about this as well.

Baba Ahmed · October 6th, 2006, 10:57 AM

Yeah, mothers, fathers, grandparents and the growing children too: need to learn more about their bodies and how they function. And learn ways to care for ourselves as much is possible. What amazes me is that our folk entrust the caring of their lives to the very descendants of those who first treated us worst than that done for animals! A related factor, research the beginnings of Planned Parenthood and its racist founder, who travelled to Germany for study of how the Nazi's dealt with European Jews!

Wonder if its true that before a person's/people's nature can be changed, a mountain can be moved!?!

Its our temple, so its said; lets act like it.

jacqui · October 6th, 2006, 11:25 AM

Ahhh Margaret Sanger.

Baba Ahmed · October 7th, 2006, 07:45 PM

Yep that's the wench's name.

The Dragon · October 7th, 2006, 08:48 PM

I had a friend who told me about this happening to Black women via the medical association. They almost got his wife, but they got her sister. These women were young when doctors were suggesting they have hysterectomies and telling them they had cervical cancers. My friend took his wife to get a second oppinion and they found absolutley nothing wrong with her uterus.

Alot of women at that time were victimized by the open genocidal act. I don't get pap spears. I believe getting every year is very unneccessary. I try to stay away from the hospital as much as possible. We refuse to believe that they are committing genocide against us there.

Anyway, I read an article years ago, unrelated to subject that stated that 100% of ALL hysterectomies were unneccessary.

jimihaze · October 8th, 2006, 02:09 AM

They are doing it to the spanish women also.