• dan1101@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Yep it wasn’t long ago that doctors sterilized native American women without their knowledge.

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      It wasn’t that long ago (Trump’s last term) when there were allegations of medical abuse at immigration facilities that included forced sterilization without consent.

      Last week, a hideous allegation emerged in a complaint filed on behalf of immigrants detained at the privately operated Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) in Georgia. In the complaint, nurse Dawn Wooten blew the whistle on “jarring medical neglect” she says she learned about while working at the facility, including an allegation that a government-contracted doctor repeatedly performed sterilizing procedures on women in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody without their knowledge or consent.