“Everybody he sees has a hysterectomy—just about everybody,” Wooten said, adding that, “everybody’s uterus cannot be that bad.”
“We’ve questioned among ourselves like goodness he’s taking everybody’s stuff out…That’s his specialty, he’s the uterus collector. I know that’s ugly…is he collecting these things or something…Everybody he sees, he’s taking all their uteruses out or he’s taken their tubes out. What in the world.”
If true, the appalling conditions described at an ICE detention facility — including allegations of mass hysterectomies performed on immigrant women — are a staggering abuse of human rights. @DHSOIG must immediately investigate these allegations. https://t.co/Rkr3yLt54r
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) September 15, 2020
Law and Crime: Several legal advocacy groups on Monday filed a whistleblower complaint on behalf of a nurse at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center documenting “jarring medical neglect” within the facility, including a refusal to test detainees for the novel coronavirus and an exorbitant rate of hysterectomies being performed on immigrant women.
My God.
If accurate, this is Nazi-Germany type cruelty, happening in Trump’s America.
Waiting for all those Trump-loving Pro-Lifers to raise holy-hell…
👇🏼👇🏼Women in ICE Detention Centers Were Reportedly Given Hysterectomies Without Informed Consent https://t.co/REfG2TgAZ7
— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) September 15, 2020
The nurse, Dawn Wooten, was employed at the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) in Georgia, which is operated by LaSalle Corrections, a private prison company. The complaint was filed with the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) by advocacy groups Project South, Georgia Detention Watch, Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights, and South Georgia Immigrant Support Network.
There are multiple lawyers representing multiple women who say they had hysterectomies without consent.https://t.co/MT2MDCMsX4
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) September 15, 2020
Multiple women came forward to tell Project South about what they perceived to be the inordinate rate at which women in ICDC were subjected to hysterectomies – a surgical operation in which all or part of the uterus is removed. Additionally, many of the immigrant women who underwent the procedure were reportedly “confused” when asked to explain why they had the surgery, with one detainee likening their treatment to prisoners in concentration camps.
It’s astounding that after a massive family separation operation, mass sexual assault of detainees, trapping immigrants in COVID-infected detention centers, and now reports of mass hysterectomies (which the US has done before), abolishing ICE is controversial.
Where’s the line?
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) September 16, 2020
“Recently, a detained immigrant told Project South that she talked to five different women detained at ICDC between October and December 2019 who had a hysterectomy done,” the complaint stated. “When she talked to them about the surgery, the women ‘reacted confused when explaining why they had one done.’ The woman told Project South that it was as though the women were ‘trying to tell themselves it’s going to be OK.’”
A whistleblower who previously worked at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Georgia detailed a high rate of hysterectomies and alleged medical neglect in a complaint filed to the Department of Homeland Security inspector general https://t.co/sNgaX8hcqr
— CNN (@CNN) September 15, 2020
“When I met all these women who had had surgeries, I thought this was like an experimental concentration camp. It was like they’re experimenting with our bodies,” the detainee said.
According to Wooten, ICDC consistently used a particular gynecologist – outside the facility – who almost always opted to remove all or part of the uterus of his female detainee patients.
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One can blame Trump for every problem his policies and management directives specifically cause and this is one. You are trying too hard, mixing your troll posts with your fake posts.
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– Stephen Miller.
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It looks as though, as I rather expected, the USG allegations of “mass sterilization of Uygurs and Tibetans” are projection. “This what we do, therefore you must be doing it too!”
the Mind-f*cking is complete, time to begin the final stage. “US immigrants ‘must come legally’ because some ‘don’t dress American’ and ‘rape the women’” Ivana approves this message. Life mimicking art Gary?
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