Female Tales on Instagram: "There is a statue in South Carolina honoring a man known as the father of modern gynecology. The inscription on that statue reads: “The first surgeon of the ages in ministry to women treating alike empress and slave.” But Dr. J. Marion Sims did not treat poor Black enslaved women in the same way he treated wealthy white women. For Sims, these Black women were unpaid experimental subjects on whom he tested his surgical techniques. He did make genuine advances in repair