5 hysterectomies referred by ICE center, DHS tells Congress

[Nevilledog]

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement referred five detainees for hysterectomies at a Georgia facility. That's more than was previously disclosed, and must be investigated.

5 hysterectomies referred by ICE center, DHS tells Congress - Roll Call
The detail was among answers to lawmakers over whistleblower allegations that ICE referred detainees for hysterectomies without their informed consent.
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https://www.rollcall.com/2020/10/07/5-hysterectomies-referred-by-ice-center-dhs-tells-congress/


Immigration and Customs Enforcement referred more detainees for hysterectomies at a Georgia facility than previously disclosed, according to a document acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf submitted to a Senate panel.

“It is my current understanding based on ICE data that, since 2017, a total of five individuals at Irwin County Detention Center were referred to certified, credentialed medical professionals at gynecological and obstetrical health care facilities for hysterectomies in compliance with National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) standards, and three hysterectomies were in fact performed,” Wolf wrote in response to questions about a federal complaint that suggested these procedures were being performed unnecessarily and without informed consent.

The answers, viewed by CQ Roll Call, were in response to a question submitted by Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., following Wolf’s Sept. 23 nomination hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Harris had asked Wolf, among other things, what percentage of people at the Irwin center received hysterectomies after being referred for other procedures.

“These recommendations were reviewed by the facility clinical authority and approved,” Wolf said. “Decisions related to health care are made by medical providers and not law enforcement personnel.”

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[Rhiannon12866]

1. Did all these women have cancer?

Current medicine sees that as the reason for a hysterectomy. Doctors have been disciplined in recent years for performing unnecessary hysterectomies.

[Nevilledog]

2. There's so much we don't know yet. I give DHS zero believability.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. I was told I could be facing one back in the '90s, so I read up on it

And that's what the experts were saying back then. I never ended having one and a local doctor was forced to give up his practice for performing too many.

[Nevilledog]

4. If I remember correctly, this Dr. Is not even a board certified OB-GYN

https://www.businessinsider.com/ice-doctor-performing-hysterectomies-is-not-board-certified-2020-9

[Rhiannon12866]

5. What is the point?! That is major surgery!

These days most of us regard major surgery as a last resort.

[Nevilledog]

6. Take away brown women's ability to have children.

[Rhiannon12866]

7. Hysterectomy is a horrific method of birth control.

Major surgery is always risky and requires a well supervised recovery period.

[Nevilledog]

8. But it's easy if you consider the "patient" to be inferior.

[Rhiannon12866]

9. A responsible doctor would avoid it unless there is no other choice

There need to be serious repercussions after this. The local doctor who was forced to give up his practice had been a well respected OB/GYN for years, he was just behind the times. And this happened some time ago, my mother's closest friend used to see him.

[tblue37]

10. The doc who performed them was apparently in some financial difficulty & needed the money.

[Rhiannon12866]

11. Then he needs to lose his license.

That is unconscionable.

[tblue37]

12. +1. nt