“The first successful surgery performed with anesthesia occurred in 1846, but Sims never gave any to the enslaved women in his care. It is recorded that he subscribed to the belief that Black people did not have the same capacity to feel pain as white people, a belief that many people in the medical field unfortunately still hold.”
J. Marion Sims experimented on enslaved black women without their consent and without anesthesia. We’re joining BYP100 to call for the removal of his monuments in NY, SC & AL.
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