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Nora W. Coffey founded the Hysterectomy Educational Resources and Services Foundation (HERS) in 1982. HERS is an international non-profit organization that educates women about the lifelong functions of the female organs and the consequences of their removal, providing one-on-one counseling to more than 850,000 women throughout the last 25 years and information to millions of people worldwide. She has lectured widely, been a guest on most talk shows and news programs, has been interviewed in most major newspapers and magazines, and is the co-author of The H Word: what gynecology doesn't want you know about 100 years of hysterectomy and female castration in America, to be released by February '09.
(6 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 17, 2008 HERS Gives Gynecologists Female Anatomy Lesson
The HERS Foundation's video "Female Anatomy: the Functions of the Female Organs" provides an essential component of the educational process known as informed consent, which is necessary for women to understand the physical consequences of hysterectomy (removal of the uterus) and oophorectomy (removal of the ovaries, the female gonads, which is castration).