A controversial statue in New York of a doctor who operated on enslaved women has been defaced by a vandal who spray-painted the word “racist” on it. The Daily News reports that the graffiti defacing the statue of Dr. J. Marion Sims in Central Park was discovered early Saturday. […] Sims was known as the father of modern gynecology. But critics say his use of enslaved African-American women as experimental subjects was unethical. …