In his August 24 “Best of the Web Today” column, Wall Street Journal OpinionJournal.com editor James Taranto used reports of anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan's recent hysterectomy to joke that Sheehan underwent the procedure as a cure for hysteria.

Taranto wrote:

It's All Ova but the Shouting

“Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan was recovering Wednesday at Providence Health Center in Waco after undergoing a hysterectomy on Tuesday,” reports Waco, Texas' KWTX-TV.

In an article titled "Atrocities Performed Upon Women in the Name of Science," Dr. John R. Christopher observes: “The hysterectomy was originally performed upon women to cure them of hysteria.” It seems some people still have backward ideas about women's health.