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“Until recently, the medical community and the general public didn’t know that he had developed several of his surgical techniques by operating on unanesthetized, enslaved Black women. Sims’s records suggest there were perhaps a dozen women in total, but we know the names of only three of the women: Anarcha, Betsey, and Lucy. Anarcha alone endured
... See morethe end, regardless of a Black woman’s marriage status or the specific circumstances surrounding her pregnancy, they were vulnerable to state-sanctioned violence at the hands of racist white doctors and complicit hospital workers who deemed impoverished Black women “unfit” for reproduction.