AP Exclusive: More migrant women say they didn't OK surgery
Source: AP
HOUSTON (AP) Sitting across from her lawyer at an immigration detention center in rural Georgia, Mileidy Cardentey Fernandez unbuttoned her jail jumpsuit to show the scars on her abdomen. There were three small, circular marks.
The 39-year-old woman from Cuba was told only that she would undergo an operation to treat her ovarian cysts, but a month later, shes still not sure what procedure she got. After Cardentey repeatedly requested her medical records to find out, Irwin County Detention Center gave her more than 100 pages showing a diagnosis of cysts but nothing from the day of the surgery.
The only thing they told me was: Youre going to go to sleep and when you wake up, we will have finished, Cardentey said this week in a phone interview.
Cardentey kept her hospital bracelet. It has the date, Aug. 14, and part of the doctors name, Dr. Mahendra Amin, a gynecologist linked this week to allegations of unwanted hysterectomies and other procedures done on detained immigrant women that jeopardize their ability to have children.
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Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)How low can this go? How can anyone still subscribe to American exceptionalism?
tiptonic
(765 posts)Its called trumpism.
pandr32
(11,553 posts)These women are being treated like cattle. So, to address the diminishing white majority sick right-wingers are forcibly sterilizing brown women.
2naSalit
(86,323 posts)SunSeeker
(51,511 posts)How can they not tell her what they did to her body??
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)poli-junkie
(997 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,450 posts)Turbineguy
(37,291 posts)but with anesthesia
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Steve Miller and his Spouse stand in the Dock at the Hague.
forkol
(113 posts)To the Cubans in Florida that worship Trump, or the evangelicals that think he's the 2nd coming of Christ because of his (fake) stance on abortion.
The article noted that the woman was from Cuba. Cubans, This is what Donald Trump truly thinks of you. You're just another brown person that he detests.
For you Hispanic Evangelicals, he wants to make sure you can't ever have kids, let alone a chance to have an abortion.
Although I would not want to have this poor woman suffer more than she has already, her story must be told. I would hope somebody like the Lincoln Project would make an Spanish-language ad based on these stories, and play them in South Florida. Show them with facts that Donald Trump does not care about them, regardless where they came from.
Indykatie
(3,695 posts)I've seen the procedures referred to as hysterectomies but that doesn't make sense. Why do the more complex procedure just to sterilize these women when a less invasive tubal ligation would have sufficed?
Le Roi de Pot
(744 posts)Drag the bastards off to Hague