“There are indications that both Dr. Amin and the referring detention facility took advantage of the vulnerability of women in detention to pressure them to agree to overly aggressive, inappropriate, and unconsented medical care,” the document alleges.
Women detained at Irwin, the document goes on, faced “pressure to have unnecessary surgery without a discussion of risks, benefits, or alternatives, including one woman who was told she needed removal of her uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries.”
A team of doctors
reviewed more
than 3,200 pages
of medical records
from 19 women who allege
"medical maltreatment"
at an ICE detention
facility in Georgia.
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