No Green Card, No Uterus?

Detained Immigrant women are getting unwanted hysterectomies and other procedures that can jeopardize their ability to have children. A hysterectomy is defined as a surgical removal of the uterus. A facility in Georgia which houses male and female detainees for ICE has been accused of giving multiple women hysterectomies they had no knowledge of and ultimately didn’t need.
Many immigrants in these types of facilities face many challenges like unclean facilities, lack of access to food, water, and other basic needs. Dawn Wooten was a full-time nurse that worked at the Irwin County Detention Center. Wooten says she was a witness to how poorly these women are treated and the different medical conditions they suffer from while detained.
Wooten says there’s an outside gynecologist that works outside the facility and they refer to him as “the uterus collector.” Wooten says that everyone he’s seen has needed a hysterectomy and he’s even taken out the wrong ovary out of a young lady. The young lady was supposed to get one of her ovaries removed but he took at the wrong one. So, then the young lady had to go back and get an entire hysterectomy. Wooten claimed the young lady had no idea what she was getting and didn’t understand why she had to get this medical procedure.
Mileidy Cardentey Fernandez was an immigrant at an immigration detention center in Georgia. She was told she would undergo an operation to treat her ovarian cysts. Later, she began to ask for her medical records to see what procedure she received but they wouldn’t allow her to see her records.
Cardentey kept her hospital bracelet, and it had her doctor’s name on it which was Dr. Mahendra Amin. Dr. Amin has been linked to many allegations of unwanted hysterectomies and other procedures done on detained immigrant women that jeopardize their ability to have children.
It’s situations such as these that illustrate just how dire the situation is for many women around the world whose autonomy isn’t even recognized by their nations of origin.
To have these types of procedures happening under the watch of American doctors and medical professionals in any setting is not only reprehensible, but unbelievable on many fronts.
The privilege of serving in the medical profession is one that’s undertaken with a medical oath, and I can’t understand how any oath taken to preserve human life and the overall human experience can have such rampant opportunity to do harm on such a scale.
All I’ll say is that if human rights mean anything at all to the powers that be in the government and foreign policy leaders, the treatment of these women in these centers would never even come to pass. To that end, this is just another example of hypocrisy on the part of those under the United States banner whom could care less about the rights of anyone who isn’t from the same place as them or look the same way as them.