New York City Orders Sims Statue Removed From Central Park
A statue of a disgraced doctor who infamously performed gynecological experiments on female slaves without anesthesia will be removed from New York City's Central Park and relocated to a cemetery in Brooklyn.
Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio created the task force following nationwide protests over confederate statues.
New York City's Public Design Commission has approved the removal of a controversial statue of a 19th century doctor who operated on enslaved women.
Sims, widely regarded as the "father of modern gynecology", established the first hospital for women in New York City in 1855.
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The New York City Parks Department removed the statue from the park early Tuesday, but it will eventually be put up again in the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, where Sims is buried.
Protests over the statue broke out a year ago, and in August it was flagged in NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's call for a 90-day review of "symbols of hate on city property".
"Placing the sculpture near his grave site is not meant to glorify him", the president of Green-Wood, Richard J. Moylan, said in a statement. The three that are, Anarcha, Betsy, and Lucy - along with the unnamed victims - have been suggested as possible replacements for Sims' former statue in Central Park.
"In its current location, the Sims monument has come to represent a legacy of oppressive and abusive practices on bodies that were seen as subjugated, subordinate, and exploitable in service to his fame", the panel wrote in a report released in January.
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