 The men would say, honey, you don't need that uterus. You've had your kids. You're finished with childbearing. 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 just as a bonus because they were thought to be useless organs after childbearing.