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A statue honoring J. Marion Sims is seen outside the South Carolina Statehouse on Tuesday, June 16, 2020, in Columbia, South Carolina. Sims, who was white, has been honored as the father of modern gynecology, but he did experimental work on female slaves without anesthesia. Some activists want his statue removed and the University of South Carolina wants to remove his name from a campus residence hall for women. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

University of South Carolina asks to change residence name

By JEFFREY COLLINS - Associated Press

A statue of Dr. J. Marion Sims is seen, Wednesday, May, 9, 2018, on the grounds of the Alabama Capitol, in Montgomery, Ala. State Sen. Hank Sanders, and others, on Wednesday called for the state to take down the statue of Sims, a 19th century doctor who did experimental surgery without anesthesia on enslaved African-American women. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler)

Group: Remove statue of doctor who experimented on slaves

By KIM CHANDLER - Associated Press

Statue of doctor who operated on enslaved women to be moved

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