Lucy, Anarcha, and Betsey’s names were found in the medical records and for years they were “lost” to colonial time. Monica Cronin authored, “Anarcha, Betsey, Lucy, and the women whose names were not recorded: The legacy of J Marion Sims” in which she writes, “Sims mentions the idea of consent only once. Lucy, he wrote, ‘willingly consented’ to examination with the pewter spoon” (9). Lucy was an enslaved teenager who would have been considered property. Property or something that is legally owned by another cannot consent. Cronin goes on to say, “The only consent that mattered was that of her enslaver who, Sims tells us, purposefully visited him and all but forced Lucy on him, despite his own very strong objections to the idea” (9). Sims tells us, consent of the enslaver- all variations of describing ways in which these women’s voices are erased. Their identities, autonomy, and stories removed. In this reality, women who are victims of brutality become sacrifices for modern medicine. White men speak of their pain casually, even writing that they as enslaved women consented to continued invasive surgery to solve the medical problem of the vesicovaginal fistula. Their pain becomes trivialized and forgotten to fit within the bigger idea of progress.