DHS Probes Whistleblower Claims Of Unwanted Hysterectomies At Private ICE Jail | Talking Points Memo

lastroth · September 17, 2020, 5:25pm

But no foil “blankets” for them. Let them earn that privilege.

godwit · September 17, 2020, 5:25pm

That is the “best” case scenario. That it is merely exploitation as a side effect of fraud. Time will tell if there are other, darker motivations layered on top, for either the dr himself or all those at the private prison and at ice and at hhs that enabled and continued the drs contract

tena · September 17, 2020, 5:26pm

Thank you so much for a hopeful comment on this. It can be done.

godwit · September 17, 2020, 5:29pm

Yes, as always in these cases it’s not just one person doing evil all by his lonesome, but a whole cavalcade of people who enabled it.

tena · September 17, 2020, 5:29pm

I’m aware that there have been and continue to be unnecessary hysterectomies performed and I’m pretty sick of the exploitation of women.

One of the more common unnecessary procedures now is gallbladder surgery. They discovered they could do that with laparoscopic surgeries and make boat payments. And I got that from a friend who was a surgeon and the head of surgery interns for a hospital here.

brian512 · September 17, 2020, 5:30pm

Doctor Mangle-er

tena · September 17, 2020, 5:31pm

Son of bitch needs to be tried for this - it should be a crime.

26degreesrising · September 17, 2020, 5:31pm

Yes this is awful and certainly the devaluation of Latina lives is essential to the abuse.

But the greatest darkness is the devaluation of women generally and historically by the medical profession. Nobody cuts off male testicles for nothing. Never have.

@tena
Ai yi yi. Gallbladder surgery now? Thanks for the tip. I didn’t know.

mattinpa · September 17, 2020, 5:32pm

Torturers do.

left_in_washington_state · September 17, 2020, 5:32pm

The only cancer that needs to be removed is in the White House.

dogmaalsocatma · September 17, 2020, 5:32pm

Any time!

txlawyer · September 17, 2020, 5:33pm

Oh, I’m quite sure that sterilizing undesirables was a feature, not a bug.

bodie1 · September 17, 2020, 5:33pm

Well, that should be a quick review and decision.

wtfinsc · September 17, 2020, 5:35pm

I think that it’s only fair that Stephen Miller and crew be sentenced to the same that they will be accused of…forced sterilization via organ removal.

26degreesrising · September 17, 2020, 5:38pm

Okay. Be literal about it.

mattinpa · September 17, 2020, 5:40pm

My point is this is IMHO a similar form of mutilation.

tena · September 17, 2020, 5:40pm

Yes it is. That’s exactly what it is.

left_in_washington_state · September 17, 2020, 5:41pm

You are right on the money. In addition to the affect on the women who are sterilized, I’m sure the PTB hope word filters back to the victims’ family and friends in their home countries.

This is another one of their “two-fer” assaults on humanity, just like the “kids in cage” gambit. There’s the pain and suffering inflicted on the individual and the fear inflicted on the families in their originating countries…suppressing their urge to seek asylum.

Oh say…can you see…this administration’s evil? It’s not too hard.

tena · September 17, 2020, 5:41pm

You are right.

txlawyer · September 17, 2020, 5:41pm

Performing non-emergency surgical procedures without the patient’s consent is a crime:

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