Dr. James Marion Sims, who some may consider the "father of Modern Gynecology," is honored proudly on the front lawn of The Capitol located in Montgomery, Alabama. This statue, unveiled on April 19, 1939, is an 86-year-old statue that signifies the honoring of a man who tortured Black American Women. Dr. James Marion Sims, born in South Carolina in 1813, was an American Physician who practiced surgery in Alabama from 1835 to 1853. He settled in Montgomery, AL, where he opened a private hospital in his backyard named "Surgical Infirmary for Negroes". In this "hospital," he practiced surgery to treat Vesicovaginal fistula (VVF). With this practice, many of his "patients" were unwilling enslaved Black American women. Where he experimented on their bodies, multiple times, sometimes days at a time, with painful surgical procedures without the use of anesthesia, he did this because of his long-time belief that still affects the world of medicine, "Blacks cannot feel pain". It is said he practiced on eleven or more women, but in his documents, three were named, which were Anarcha, Betsy, and Lucy. Anarcha experienced more than 30 of these painful surgeries. Later in his practice, Dr.Sims used Anesthesia on consenting white women.  New York City removed the statue of Dr. James Marion Sims in 2018, while this statue still exists, keeping the same narrative alive that "Black People cannot feel pain." Located on the Alabama State Capitol Lawn, it shows that, with so much advancement, we still live in the past. Honoring a man who actively and knowingly inflicted pain on Enslaved Black Women, while at times, plantation owners stood and watched, in mockery of their pain and suffering. Why must such a statue remain, with such a troubled past? James Marion Sims, later, continued his practice, dying in New York in 1883. To move on to the future, Alabama will have to honor and respect the atrocities that happened in this state, on these grounds. This statue should be removed. It has no place in such a state that is coined "Alabama, the Beautiful". This statue is not beautiful; this is a horrific part of history that should not be honored in any glorious way by a statue.