Whistleblower: There Were Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Facility

[iluvtennis]

Brooke Binkowski@brooklynmarie·5h
Whistleblower: There Were Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Facility | Law & Crime

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https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/like-an-experimental-concentration-camp-whistleblower-complaint-alleges-mass-hysterectomies-at-ice-detention-center/
‘Like an Experimental Concentration Camp’: Whistleblower Complaint Alleges Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Detention Center
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.

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.

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the t-rump admin just goes lower and lower each day. I so despise them.

[BlueLucy]

1. That's some NAZI shit right there.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. Nazis learned it from us and what we did to enslaved people and Native people.

[Iliyah]

2. Where are the pro-life so called Christians? . . .

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. HEADS NEED TO ROLL.

THIS IS NAZI STYLE SHIT

[ego_nation]

4. Have there been any other sources to corroborate this story?

[Alacritous Crier]

5. I've been looking...

but I haven't found anything yet.

[iluvtennis]

9. Also on Daily Beast and Dailykos

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-whistleblower-complaint-alleges-uterus-collector-doctor-performed-mass-hysterectomies-11

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/14/1977392/-Whistleblower-complaint-charges-ICE-center-with-performing-mass-hysterectomies-on-prisoners

[Deuxcents]

10. That's my question

Too much misinformation out there.

[LymphocyteLover]

27. this doesn't look like misinformation

it's a serious document totally in line with what we already know about these facilities. There's contact info at the end if you want to find out more.

Azadeh Shahshahani, Legal and Advocacy Director atProject South at [e-mail]

Priyanka Bhatt, Staff Attorney at Project South, at [e-mail]

[soothsayer]

14. Here's the email Project South sent to DHS

https://projectsouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/OIG-ICDC-Complaint-1.pdf

[Hekate]

7. I can't breathe...

[MontanaMama]

8. No. Please no.

How can they get away with this?

[JHB]

33. How? Because Republicans are fine with it.

They've had three years to stop him, and the only real thing they've done is support him.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. What real doctor would give unnecessary surgery on orders from a bureaucrat?

[lpbk2713]

17. One who is being paid by the government.

He apparently does hysterectomies routinely. He probably has quite a nest egg built up by now.

[Hassler]

12. Stephen Miller needs to be tried at the Hague.

[2naSalit]

37. That's the truth.

He might squirm out of US but I don't think any country in Europe would have him.

[ecstatic]

13. These are crimes against humanity that should come with serious prison time

This is some sick shit. These women were basically raped and violated in unspeakable ways. I can't believe what I just read! Seriously, if this is true, I want every last one of these motherfuckers locked up for life. Enough!

[Takket]

18. yeah we are WAY past the american court system... this requires the Hauge to step in

and conduct trials like they did for the Nazis

[LymphocyteLover]

25. WE SO NEED A TRUMP CRIMES COMMISSION

[Nictuku]

15. I want to scream! I am crying!!!

This is so fucking evil.

They probably did it to get rid of the evidence of Rape.

I don't know how much more of this I can take.

This should be headline news!!!

Being a woman, who had 2 attempted rapes in my life... I just can't take it. It is bad enough when men decide what we should or shouldn't do with our bodies, when they have the greater strength and can rape us.

I'm sick. I .... I don't even know what else to say.

I am actually hoping that this is just fake news, (and I failed and took the bait). But if it is real, it should be the headline on every news station.

GAH!!!!!!!!!

[LymphocyteLover]

26. WOW, hadn't thought of that for a reason but makes sense

[BusyBeingBest]

16. Obviously, if this is legitimate then Congress will have to look into it.

I'll mute my reaction until I see where this goes.

[Takket]

19. this turns my stomach.........

this is nothing less than craven mutilation of the female body. there is no reason for this. what the hell are we performing unnecessary surgeries for when we don't even have the money for food and blankets, if not for the pure sadistic pleasure of torturing this women?

[MustLoveBeagles]

24. It's torture and genocide

[mrs_p]

20. K n R

[deminks]

21. Jesus, Mary and Joseph. The Hague is not enough for these monsters.

I don't know what would be enough for the evil that did this.

[deminks]

22. Rep. Nadler has responded.

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These allegations are absolutely horrendous! The idea that women are having invasive, life altering medical procedures on their bodies that they do not understand shocks the conscience. The @DHSgov Inspector General must investigate.

[deminks]

23. Rep. Pressley has responded.

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"I’ve had several inmates tell me that they’ve been to see the doctor and they’ve had hysterectomies and they don’t know why they went or why they’re going.”

Absolutely horrifying. We need Congressional Investigations into the horrendous human rights abuses at ICDC Georgia now.

[c-rational]

28. Truly disturbing. Public Hearings and sentences.

[deminks]

29. Joy Reid has responded.

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What in the fresh Hell...??? https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/like-an-experimental-concentration-camp-whistleblower-complaint-alleges-mass-hysterectomies-at-ice-detention-center/ via @lawcrimenews

[jmbar2]

30. It's highly questionable -- see link

I know that some don't trust Louise, but I've found her pretty reliable.

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[grantcart]

40. Interesting. Don't trust LM on her claims but her reviewing someone else is another thing

Needs more corroboration.

[yardwork]

31. WE ARE COMMITTING CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.

[deminks]

32. Thom Hartmann has responded.

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We used to call this eugenics in America - the purposeful, medical elimination of the ability of "undesirable people" to reproduce. We did it to Blacks & Native Americans by the tens of thousands in the 1920s. Stephen Miller's fingerprints must be all over this.

[Fla Dem]

34. You've got to wonder how many abortions were performed with or w/o consent.

[deminks]

35. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez has responded.

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The fact of the matter is the United States has engaged in a program of mass human rights violations targeting immigrants.

This includes mass child separation, systemic sexual assault of people in detention, kangaroo-court procedures, & more.

Our country must atone for it all.

[ellie]

36. If this is true

I want heads to roll.

[deminks]

38. Rep. Tliab has responded.

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ICE is literally removing immigrant women’s wombs.

This makes me sick to my stomach. ICE is an agency rotten to the core. That’s why #AbolishICE is a human rights, reproductive justice, & public health imperative.

We can't be silent. We must stop this.

[SunSeeker]

39. K & R for exposure.

[Xolodno]

41. L'll wait for more sources, etc.

But if true, those involved will never be able to leave the USA. This is crime against humanity level and the Hague will pick this up, despite the USA no longer being a signatory nation. Even then, who knows what the repercussions will be on a global scale.

I hope this is false.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

42. Jesus Christ...say with all the reverance I can muster up for fake kkkristian repubs

.[trump, pence, gop.] There will be congressional hearings right? What the hell else have these evil monsters been up to?

Just how does one file a complaint against trump his cabal [--pence, barr, gop] for crimes against humanity, civil rights violations that have caused death, abuse; pain and suffering?