• Re: In 1845, James Marion Sims, the Democrat father of modern gynecolog

    From Ted Jones@21:1/5 to Everybody Worships Trump on Sat Apr 2 09:04:39 2022
    On Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 5:45:03 PM UTC-6, Everybody Worships Trump wrote:
    ...began experimenting on enslaved women without consent and without
    any anesthesia, causing untold suffering. Operating under the mere
    racist notion that African American people did not feel pain, he
    asked his patients, who were completely naked, to perch on their
    knees and bend forward onto their elbows so their heads rested on
    their hands. After 30 operations and 4 years spent experimenting on
    a 17-year-old enslaved woman, he finally “perfected” his method.
    Only then did he begin to practice on white women, to whom he freely administered anesthesia. Sims’s heinous acts were legally
    permissible because enslaved women were considered no more than
    their master’s property and were allowed no autonomy over their own bodies.

    Well if what he did was legal, than can we truly say that his acts were heinous?

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