The women getting their wombs removed so they can keep cutting sugarcane
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The Independent (US)The women getting their wombs removed so they can keep cutting sugarcane
To avoid missing work and losing daily wages, female sugarcane cutters in Maharashtra feel forced to undergo hysterectomies to stay in the fields. They tell Noopur Jambhekar how they are trapped in a cycle of debt – but still dream of better futures for their children
Indian sugarcane workers hope that hysterectomies will keep them from having to miss work. And the surgery comes with risks.
Women who have their uteruses removed to continue cutting sugarcane: “My body is enslaved to the system” It is 4 a.m. in Ramanal, a remote, rural area of Karnataka in southern India. Poornima emerges from her tent to begin another day. She, like all women who […] The article Women who have their uteruses removed to continue cutting sugarcane for Pepsi and Coca-Cola to pay off their debts: “My body is enslaved to the system” appeared in Agonas ti…
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