To: President Donald Trump, The Virginia State House, The Virginia State Senate, Governor Ralph Northam, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate

We demand a Congressional investigation of the OB/GYN specialty!

From morcellation of sarcoma to decades spent removing healthy ovaries in women with no proven risk of breast or ovarian cancer, OB/GYNs have been making women sick for decades with no intervention or oversight. We demand a Congressional investigation and restitution for the affected women and their families!

Why is this important?

UPDATE: On Aug. 6, Sen. Mark Warner sent the research behind this petition to the FDA. Now we just need a hearing! Thank you, Senator Warner! According to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3543732/ and many other studies, women are significantly more likely to die prematurely when their ovaries removed. Average age at surgery is 42. Those women are are 70% more likely to die before age 80 than women who didn't have the surgery. Women older than 45 still die prematurely - risk only decreases 6% for each year past age 45. At no age is this acceptable for women who receive no benefit.

I, and about 14 million other women in the U.S., were made seriously ill when our healthy ovaries were removed at the time of elective hysterectomy. This is done 55% of the time women have a hysterectomy despite the fact that only 2% of all women have a risk of breast or ovarian cancer, and might benefit. Though 14,000 women die of ovarian cancer each year, 365,000 healthy pairs of ovaries are removed in women with no known risk.

This is a national health crisis. Unsure this is accurate? http://www.gynreform.com/citations.html

Though it's not well understood outside of medicine, ovaries make hormones that we need for our entire lives. Our lifespans have been cut short by these surgeons. These doctors publish study after study in their own medical journals, then ignore the data and continue doing things that are making us gravely ill and lead to our premature death.

This must be addressed in Congress, in court, and they must be made to stop. A complete revision of their training and accreditation processes, one that indoctrinates them with a more appropriate way of looking at patients, must be a top priority.

Visit www.gynreform.com and www.overy.org for more information.