Patricia:  I don't think your example was too convoluted.  It makes the
point to me very clearly.  When my students think I'm being too hard on the
health care inequities for women, I usually reverse the situation we're
dealing with and substitute men/males and their respective body parts.
Yes, it sounds hysterical, but it also makes the point.  "While we're 'in
there anyway for an appendectomy/cholescystectomy/ovarian cyst/etc' let's
just remove that uterus.  You don't need it any more and it's just going to
develop cancer."   (Or, in the case of a hysterectomy, rationalizing the
removal of ovaries)  One of my favorites is to say, "You don't need those
testicles anymore. Let's just remove them so they don't get cancer."
Shocking?  Well, timid I am not.  I really hope they don't come down on you
for this.  It sounds like they're looking for a scapegoat.

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