Georgia gynecologist accused of forced sterilization of immigrant women

A gynecologist dubbed the "womb harvester" allegedly performed uninvited hysterectomies (removal of the uterus) on women at a Georgia immigration center, a whistleblowing nurse who worked there claims. Writes about this The Daily Mail.

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A gynecologist dubbed the “womb harvester” allegedly removed the female organ from “everyone he saw” at an immigrant detention center in Georgia. The complaint to the Department of Homeland Security's internal audit office is based on statements made by Dawn Wooten, who until July worked as a registered nurse at the Irvine County Detention Center.

“Everyone he saw had a hysterectomy—almost everyone,” Wooten said. “He even removed the wrong ovary from a young girl.” She had to have her left ovary removed because there was a cyst there; and he took out a healthy organ. She was upset. She had to undergo surgery again to remove her left ovary. In the end it all ended with a total hysterectomy."

“She wanted children - and now she will have to go home and tell her husband that she will not have children. She said she was not fully under anesthesia and heard him [the doctor] tell the nurse that he had removed the wrong ovary,” the nurse says.

Wooten said the sheer number of those undergoing the procedure made her and her colleagues question the need for such a measure.

“We asked ourselves: how can it be that he takes everything from them... This is his specialty - he collects uteruses. I know it's terrible. But he removes the uterus and tubes of everyone he sees,” the woman said.

Wooten doesn't know if the women deliberately agreed to the operation. The nurse expressed concern about the unnamed doctor.

“These immigrant women, I don’t think they really fully, from start to finish, understood what was going to happen, a lot of it depends on who explained it to them and how it was explained to them,” she says.

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The facility in Ossilla, about 200 miles south of Atlanta, holds USCIS and USCIS and USCIS and Irvine County prisoners.

ICE said it will not comment on the case until the completion of the general inspection, but take all charges seriously.

“That being said, as a general rule, anonymous, unsubstantiated claims made without any verifiable specific facts should be treated with the appropriate skepticism they deserve,” the agency said in a statement.

While the 27-page complaint filed by human rights group Project South cites many unnamed prisoners, there are detailed comments from Wooten. The complaint says that Wooten was demoted after skipping work due to symptoms of coronavirus: in her opinion, it was revenge for raising the issue of resolving the COVID-19 problem at an immigrant detention center.

Wooten said the number of infected prisoners was much higher than reported because there was no active testing and not all cases were reported. According to her, the nurses sometimes deceived that they examined the detainees in person, although they did not. Wooten allegedly saw a nurse tearing up a box of papers with prisoners 'complaints, and the detainees' symptoms were ignored. If the detainees reported a fever, she said, the nurses gave them over-the-counter cold medications for 7 days without testing them for COVID-19.

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Wooten said the institution refused to use two COVID-19 rapid testing machines, which ICE purchased for $ 14 each. The medical staff had not been trained to operate them, and she saw that the machines were only used once.

As of Sunday, September 13, 42 inmates at the facility had tested positive for the virus, according to ICE. Across the country, 5 detainees are infected with the virus.

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