Forcible sterilization has a grim history in our country, and it doesn't need to make a comeback.
"No comment" is not a reassuring response from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The whistleblower, nurse Dawn Wooten, said in the report that “Hispanics are treated the worst in the facility. I mean literally. They can’t speak English. Even though they [ICDC] have the language line there, if they’re trying to get understanding of their health it’s like take these pills and get the hell on…[Hispanics] hurt and suffer through it.”
Wooten, as well as several immigrant women, alleged that detainees were given hysterectomies at an alarmingly high rate, while under the care of a particular doctor contracted by the facility.
One immigrant told Project South that during a two-month period, she met five other women at the prison who had received hysterectomies, and who “reacted confused when explaining why they had one done.”
The detainee related that women were “trying to tell themselves it’s going to be OK,” and that she thought of the prison that “this was like an experimental concentration camp. It was like they’re experimenting with our bodies.”
Wooten said she noticed a high number of women who had undergone hysterectomies in the course of her duties at the prison, and recalled thinking that “everybody’s uterus cannot be that bad.”
She alleged that one doctor in particular was responsible, calling him “the uterus collector.”
“Everybody he sees has a hysterectomy—just about everybody,” she said, alleging that the doctor once removed the wrong ovary from one immigrant woman and had to subsequently remove the other one and perform a complete hysterectomy.
No comment can also be given when you're in the middle of an investigation and cannot say anything less you endanger said investigation or screw it up and let the culprit get away on a technicality.
ReplyDeleteIt sound at least like there's just one insane doctor that needs to be thrown in the slammer. This is also why I've been generally irritated with the chicken-little style of reporting on Trump - because then it makes it that much harder to give any ACTUAL problem oxygen. By this point there's been so much disinformation about the border, I'd need to see real evidence and triplicate forms filled out by a bipartisan committee about any controversy before I waste any emotion or credulity upon it.
You would be screaming in the streets if this exact thing had been reported under Obama, but since it’s Trump all we hear are crickets. Your caution proves you to be the Trump-idolatrous hypocrite all Catholics are.
ReplyDeleteIt is a grim irony that a lawyer whose most recent blog post calmly advises the world to distinguish facts from conclusions so swiftly leaps to them here. You should try to follow your own advice. It was and is good advice.
ReplyDeleteAfter being told that whistleblowers in Iraq confirmed the place was festooned with chemical weapons and Hussein was putting people into industrial shredders, I have indeed become more cautious about forming judgments.
And the idea that all Catholics are "Trump-idolators" is another example of you not following your own sage advice. If you had paused to scroll down the page before firing off your ill-considered judgment, you would have found this:
"Anyway, the Trump Presidency and its worst features did not spring like Athena from the brow of Zeus--it stands atop a lot of rubble piled up by previous Presidents, Republican and Democratic."
Anyway, you are welcome to participate here, but introducing yourself by insulting the host is a bad start. It's also not good advocacy, but that's a dispute for another time.