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Whistleblower Complaint Alleges Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Detention Center

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.

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.

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 it’s 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 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.

“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.”

Wooten also confirmed that many of the detained women have told her that they didn’t understand why they were being forced to have the procedure, explaining that some of the nurses obtained their consent “by simply googling Spanish.”

The complaint details several accounts from detainees, including one woman who was not properly anesthetized during the procedure and heard the aforementioned doctor tell the nurse he had mistakenly removed the wrong ovary, resulting in her losing all reproductive ability. Another said she was scheduled for the procedure but when she questioned why it was necessary, she was given at least three completely different answers.

“She was originally told by the doctor that she had an ovarian cyst and was going to have a small twenty-minute procedure done drilling three small holes in her stomach to drain the cyst,” according to the complaint. “The officer who was transporting her to the hospital told her that she was receiving a hysterectomy to have her womb removed. When the hospital refused to operate on her because her COVID-19 test came back positive for antibodies, she was transferred back to ICDC where the ICDC nurse said that the procedure she was going to have done entailed dilating her vagina and scraping tissue off. “

Another nurse then told her the procedure was to mitigate her heavy menstrual bleeding, which the woman had never experienced. When she explained that, the nurse “responded by getting angry and agitated and began yelling at her.”

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by Anonymousreply 10September 15, 2020 6:28 PM

Pro-life!

by Anonymousreply 1September 14, 2020 8:42 PM

Democrats should steer clear of these immigration issues since nobody cares. And these immigrants will vote Repugs anyway, if they ever become US citizens.

by Anonymousreply 2September 14, 2020 8:49 PM

A return to eugenics—why are we not surprised?

by Anonymousreply 3September 14, 2020 8:57 PM

This is depressing. And so wrong.

by Anonymousreply 4September 14, 2020 8:59 PM

The whitening of the human race by forced mass sterilisation. America as you know it is dead. Fuck anybody who was involved and fuck anybody who makes excuses. America is dead.

by Anonymousreply 5September 14, 2020 9:00 PM

R2 is dreadful.

by Anonymousreply 6September 14, 2020 9:02 PM

I hope this goes Viral. It IS Eugenics and shows that in no way are these Detention Camps anything but a 21st Century version of an American Holocaust. I actually think the poster upthread who mentioned " "Right to Life" is on to something, and Biden could use it to shame the Evangelical base and swing More voters. Besides that, it's officially confirmed: We're living in a Nightmare.

by Anonymousreply 7September 14, 2020 9:11 PM

How is this not a crime against humanity? Like seriously?

by Anonymousreply 8September 15, 2020 2:53 PM

There's probably more, R8, and we just haven't found out about it yet. Wait until the mass burials are uncovered.

by Anonymousreply 9September 15, 2020 6:22 PM

Trumpers will love this because it means brown and tan women are suffering against their will and won't be able to have any brown or tan babies.

It's definitely what their version of Jesus would do and how they think 'America First!' works

by Anonymousreply 10September 15, 2020 6:28 PM
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