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Reproductive Justice and Gender

Hysterics: Are Hysterectomies Too Common?

By Anna Clark, RH Reality Check. Posted June 24, 2008.


One in three women has a hysterectomy before her 60th birthday. Yet only 10 percent of these procedures are to treat life-threatening illnesses.
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