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Protests against ICE, Forced Sterilization and Under Reporting of Covid-19 Cases in Detention Centers
Title (Dublin Core)
Protests against ICE, Forced Sterilization and Under Reporting of Covid-19 Cases in Detention Centers
Description (Dublin Core)
Last Monday, Dawn Wooten, a nurse at an ICE detention center in Irwin County, Georgia, revealed doctors were performing unnecessary gynecological procedures, including hysterectomies, on immigrant women being held. She also revealed the facility was underreporting the number of positive of COVID-19 cases by failing to test detainees and neglecting their medical needs.
These cases of forced sterilizations are far too common in American history. After sterilization became legal and provided to Puerto Rican women for free, approximately one-third of the female population was sterilized between the 1930s and the 1970s, making it the highest rate of sterilization in the world. Health workers encouraged the procedure through door-to-door visits and employers showed favoritism towards sterilized women.
I highly recommend a short documentary called La Operación available online about this US-imposed sterilization policy in Puerto Rico.
These cases of forced sterilizations are far too common in American history. After sterilization became legal and provided to Puerto Rican women for free, approximately one-third of the female population was sterilized between the 1930s and the 1970s, making it the highest rate of sterilization in the world. Health workers encouraged the procedure through door-to-door visits and employers showed favoritism towards sterilized women.
I highly recommend a short documentary called La Operación available online about this US-imposed sterilization policy in Puerto Rico.
Date (Dublin Core)
September 21, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Drew Arrieta @itsdrw
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Dana Bell
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST580
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Type (Dublin Core)
Instagram
Link (Bibliographic Ontology)
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Immigration
English
Social Issues
English
Healthcare
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
ICE
ICE facility
Dawn Wooten
nurse
Irwin County
Georgia
hysterectomy
forced sterilization
history
Puerto Rico
La Operación
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
Dawn Wooten
ICE
nurse
detention center
Irwin County
Georgia
doctor
unnecessary gynecological procedures
hysterectomies
immigrant women
Covid-19
under reporting
neglect
forced sterilization
history
American history
Puerto Rico
La Operacion
Social Justice
protest
Collection (Dublin Core)
Incarceration
Social Justice
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
03/15/2021
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
04/16/2021
08/02/2022
Date Created (Dublin Core)
09/21/2020
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This item was submitted on March 15, 2021 by Dana Bell using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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