 Those organs are simply a nuisance. We'll just take them out for you. And there were even things like, well, if you had an appendectomy, just an added freebie, they'd take out your uterus and ovaries, you know, just as a bonus because they were thought to be useless organs after childbearing. Well, things have changed. Still, by age 75, an incredible 42% of women have had a hysterectomy.