A Georgia hospital where a physician has been accused of performing a large number of hysterectomies on immigrant detainees said its records show that just two women in immigration custody have been referred to the hospital for the procedure since 2017
Monday to discuss the ICE report, called Wooten’s allegations of sterilization procedures on ICE detainees “one of the most inhumane things I have ever heard.”“There may be at minimum 17 to 18 women who were subjected to unnecessary medical gynecological procedures from just this one doctor, often without appropriate consent or knowledge, and with the clear intention of sterilization,” Jayapal said.
In a subsequent interview, Jayapal acknowledged that she did not know the details of each of those cases, but the number she cited referred to the clients of attorneys with whom she had spoken.The advocacy group that filed the complaint, Project South, did not make the hysterectomy allegations the focus of its Sept. 14 complaint to DHS, a complaint that alleged there is poor medical care and novel
risks at the ICE facility. But it was the allegations of forced sterilizations that triggered a firestorm.“The rate at which the hysterectomies have occurred have been a red flag for Ms. Wooten and other nurses at ICDC,” the Project South complaint said, without identifying other nurses. According to Project South, “Ms. Wooten explained: ‘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.
ICE said its own records show that two female detainees at Irwin have been referred for hysterectomies since 2018. Officials at ICE said the agency would have records of such procedures, which would require the approval of a supervising medical officer at the agency. ICE officials say they are cooperating with investigators.The most important news stories of the day, curated by Post editors and delivered every morning.
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