Free and informed choice of the individual woman must be respected. To forget about this or to ignore it is a crime, is ethically wrong and is disgraceful. As a woman, I revolt against this medical abuse of women. Every time a woman is told her uterus must be removed, she is not only told to have an organ removed, but a piece of her life, a symbol of her womanhood. To forget this or to ignore it is a crime and ethically unacceptable and, as such, must be condemned. Too many women still live what they become (and the way they are) after the operation as their fate; too many women have lived with the depression and anxiety of its aftermath: old, grey, depressed, sterile, asexual and disturbed. Too many women are forced to live with the risk of heart attack, stroke, cancer, Alzheimer's and Osteoporosis hanging over their head.