1/
The very best view of the available evidence in the ICE sterilization story is that one rogue doctor w/a history of Medicare fraud routinely chose the most expensive option w/o obtaining informed consent from women in ICE custody.
This is what we used to call a "scandal"
2/ I know ppl have had the best intentions but IMO it's not helpful to go straight to talking about a Trump/Miller scheme or some kind of organized plot worthy of genocide charges in The Hague. At base, this was one greedy doc who knew no one would care. Don't prove him right!
3/ This is not a Trump thing. This could have, and indeed did, happen under Obama, GW Bush, or Clinton--all of whom presided over mass immigration detention--and there's nothing stopping it in a Biden administration. It is very important to me that you understand this.
4/ Medical care in ICE facilities is baseline awful, but find me much better in any women's prison. This is the cruel, sadistic reality of our carceral state. Whether ICE knew what this doctor was doing or not, I'd really appreciate it if we could frame it accordingly
5/ The horror of the reality of this story is already real. Shrugging off non-consensual life-altering reproductive surgery--not only hysterectomies!--on migrant women (or blaming Russia somehow) is doing nothing to help, and quite a lot to harm
6/ There is already a serious campaign going to minimize this story just bc it didn't match the breathless scope that some people (not including the whistleblower herself) had been imputing upon it.
Surely you value these lives more than that. I really hope you do.
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