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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhistleblower Complaint Alleges Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Detention Center
Like an Experimental Concentration Camp: Whistleblower Complaint Alleges Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Detention Center
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.
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 its going to be OK.
When I met all these women who had had surgeries, I thought this was like an experimental concentration camp. It was like theyre 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.
Everybody he sees has a hysterectomyjust about everybody, Wooten said, adding that, everybodys uterus cannot be that bad.
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 its going to be OK.
When I met all these women who had had surgeries, I thought this was like an experimental concentration camp. It was like theyre 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.
Everybody he sees has a hysterectomyjust about everybody, Wooten said, adding that, everybodys uterus cannot be that bad.
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Whistleblower Complaint Alleges Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Detention Center (Original Post)
Midnightwalk
Sep 2020
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OAITW r.2.0
(24,504 posts)1. Can't wait to see how "Right to Life" crowd and the Fundies spin this.
Is having an abortion worse than forcing a woman to permanently lose her ability to bring forth life? Fucking Nazi's.
2naSalit
(86,622 posts)2. Could someone send this to TRMS...
She would be interested in this and expose it far and wide.
orwell
(7,773 posts)3. What's next...
...forced euthanasia?
Ohiogal
(31,999 posts)4. I have no words for this
Other than fucking evil Nazis
You can bet we wont hear one peep out of the pro life crowd.
jorgevlorgan
(8,295 posts)5. Handmaids tale
brush
(53,778 posts)6. Sounds like undercover sterilization to me.
Sunsky
(1,737 posts)7. Wtf?
This cannot be real. Why do I feel like I'm living in a dystopian movie?
demmiblue
(36,853 posts)8. My.Gawd.