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Mrs. Overall

(6,839 posts)
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 01:33 PM Sep 2020

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, she’s 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: ‘You’re 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 doctor’s 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.

Read more: https://apnews.com/f2008d23c5f9087f4214d9722dfb097e

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AP Exclusive: More migrant women say they didn't OK surgery (Original Post) Mrs. Overall Sep 2020 OP
This is so sick and sad Cal Carpenter Sep 2020 #1
Its called tiptonic Sep 2020 #12
Good lord! How awful pandr32 Sep 2020 #2
Pretty much. ...nt 2naSalit Sep 2020 #4
Horrifying. SunSeeker Sep 2020 #3
I feel shame & disgust. This is so freaking horrible. bronxiteforever Sep 2020 #5
Why do I have this feeling Stephen Miller is involved in this? poli-junkie Sep 2020 #6
It would be the high point of his monstrous life to be part of it. n/t Judi Lynn Sep 2020 #10
Unit 731 Turbineguy Sep 2020 #7
So,this shit is not going to stop until Wellstone ruled Sep 2020 #8
For the Hispanics that still want to vote for Trump forkol Sep 2020 #9
Were These Tubal Ligations and Not Hysterectomies? Indykatie Sep 2020 #11
This should simply be handled by ICJ .. Le Roi de Pot Sep 2020 #13
Agree. riversedge Sep 2020 #14
K&R ck4829 Sep 2020 #15

pandr32

(11,447 posts)
2. Good lord! How awful
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 01:43 PM
Sep 2020

These women are being treated like cattle. So, to address the diminishing white majority sick right-wingers are forcibly sterilizing brown women.

forkol

(113 posts)
9. For the Hispanics that still want to vote for Trump
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 02:35 PM
Sep 2020

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

(3,691 posts)
11. Were These Tubal Ligations and Not Hysterectomies?
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 03:32 PM
Sep 2020

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?

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