February 28, 2021
A collective of professional organizations in health care, have officially designated February 28 and March 1, the dates that bridge Black History and Women’s History months, for the formal acknowledgement of Anarcha, Betsey, and Lucy, three enslaved Black women whose exploitation led to foundational advances in the field of obstetrics and gynecology that benefit millions of patients today. Anarcha, Betsey, and Lucy and other unnamed enslaved women, were involuntarily experimented upon by Dr....