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Those are strong words, but that fact is that more than 90 percent of all hysterectomies are unnecessary.
Worse, the surgery can have long-lasting physical, emotional, and sexual consequences that may undermine
your health and well-being. This site is about hysterectomy, the unacceptable risks it poses, and the
alternatives available to treat the vast majority of disorders that can lead to the surgery.
Hysterectomy is, by definition, the removal of a vital female organ, the uterus. About 40 percent of the
time, the ovaries are also removed in the course of surgery. Considering the importance of both these
Unfortunately, that is not the case. Most of the "female problems" that lead to hysterectomy are medically trivial. They can be uncomfortable. Untreated, some can make your life miserable. But they will not kill you. Why have major surgery to remove an organ (your uterus) or organs (uterus and ovaries) that define you as a woman and are essential to your physical, emotional, and sexual well-being unless your life is in danger? No man would agree to have his sexual and reproductive organs removed for anything short of a life-threatening illness. And no doctor would suggest such a radical course of action except when the alternative is certain death. It is time for women to recognize hysterectomy for the threat it is and to refuse to have the surgery except when their lives are at stake.
