A powerful and haunting reminder of America’s medical past now stands tall in Montgomery !
The Mothers of Gynecology Monument, created by artist and activist Michelle Browder, honors three Black enslaved girls who were subjected to brutal, non-consensual surgical experiments by J. Marion Sims—the man long celebrated as the “father of modern gynecology.”
Browder’s towering metal sculptures represent Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey, three teenage girls—ages 17 , 16, and 18—whose bodies were used for medical experimentation without anesthesia during the 1840s.
These young women had no legal rights , no ability to consent , and were exploited in the name of scientific progress…