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More than 600,000 American women this year will undergo a hysterectomy, or removal of the uterus. That rate is among the highest in the industrialized world. By age 60, one in three women in the U.S. will have had the surgery, and in more cases than not, they will also have had their ovaries and fallopian tubes removed during the procedure. Doctors have long turned to hysterectomy as a treatment for conditions that range from heavy periods to ovarian cancer, but its widespread use concerns some critics, who say it's tantamount to female castration...
...Last April, another study from the WHI supported just this sort of judicious use. That study found that women who began estrogen and progestin, the most commonly prescribed combination (progestinis added to protect against uterine cancer; women with hysterectomies do not need progestin, since they have had their uterus removed), within 10 years of hitting menopause experienced less heart disease than their counterparts who began years after the Change...
...outdone, the Los Angeles Times executed the most precious of unintended ironies, labeling the decision an “unconscionable U-turn” while offering a detailed and dispassionate description of the abortifacient procedure, by which “a doctor partially extracts a fetus from the uterus into the birth canal, where he then collapses the skull by suctioning its contents...
...point across, and picked up my birth control at CVS by the end of the day. But despite the false accusation leveled at my uterus, it was admittedly easy for me to rightfully obtain what I needed. In fact, most of my health needs are met easily for a simple reason, but one that is often overlooked in politics: I’m not poor. And in looking at the liberal overreaction to last week’s Supreme Court ruling in Gonzales v. Carhart, it is striking to me that so-called progressives so easily forget the disparity...
...passion with which the other side has attacked the procedure is misleading as well. Do abortion foes really see it as more objectionable than any other alternative at that stage in pregnancy? The only real difference for the fetus is where the abortion occurs: as dismemberment in the uterus, or as intact destruction several inches down the birth canal. But for the woman, there is often a big difference. Medical professionals who use the more controversial procedure say it is significantly easier on the woman, and that it could make a difference in her ability to bear children later...