Ongoing Projects
"HERS 2010 Hysterectomy Conference" U.S. Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney will be the Keynote Speaker at HERS Twenty-Eighth Hysterectomy Conference on April 24, in New York City. Maloney is well known and highly regarded for her advocacy for women’s rights. Indiana Representative Bruce Borders, the legislator who introduced a hysterectomy informed consent bill, will also speak at the conference. Borders will provide an insider’s perspective on the opposition and support he has received for Indiana House Bill 1366. In addition to meeting expert speakers and networking with other women and men seeking to become better educated about these issues, the conference is an opportunity to show politicians that hysterectomy informed consent legislation is of critical importance. http://hersfoundation.org/conference.html
"un becoming" In February 2005 HERS produced a play about the physical, political, economic, and social impact of hysterectomy. UN BECOMING by Rick Schweikert premiered Off Broadway at the 45th Street Theatre and it has been performed in 25 other cities. In 2005 a performance of UN BECOMING with the original Off-Broadway cast was filmed by Eric Marciano and American Montage . Barbara Seaman, author of The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women: Exploding the Estrogen Myth, stated, “Every woman, man and child should see this play!”
Female Anatomy: Functions of the Female Organs is a short educational video produced by the HERS Foundation in 2007 . It has been viewed over 1,200,000 times on websites including YouTube, Google, MSN, Yahoo and the HERS Foundation http://hersfoundation.org/.
Hysterectomy: The Experts Speak Out is a blog written by the HERS Foundation that gives the public access to the experiences of hysterectomized and castrated women told in their own unedited words. The blog provides an in-depth analysis of the patient education misinformation being given to women by doctors and hospitals and provides a platform for women to voice their experiences .
The H Word http://www.thehword.org/ written by Nora W. Coffey and Rick Schweikert, discusses the common reasons hysterectomy is recommended, the diagnostic studies that should be performed to obtain a diagnosis, alternatives in treatment and their risks, and strategies to help women cope with the lifelong aftereffects of removal of the uterus and ovaries. It revolutionizes our understanding of female anatomy and the important lifelong functions of the female organs. It reveals the solution to the complex problem of hysterectomy performed without the information that is necessary for informed consent. It takes an unflinching look at the environment of hysterectomy in America- information gynecology doesn't want you to know about 100 years of hysterectomy in America.
Read more about this topic: Hysterectomy Educational Resources And Services (HERS) Foundation
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