Early reports of what’s happening to detained migrant women in ICE custody are tremendously disturbing, but issue seems to be overprovision of surgeries for billing purposes/inadequate interpretation services rendering consent impossible rather than “mass systemic sterilization”

To be clear, that’s still horrific -even if every procedure were 100% necessary, w/o interpreters it’s nonconsensual by definition, and fact that these were migrant WOC certainly made them vulnerable. But sterilization would likely entail tubal ligation/IUDs, not hysterectomies

this thread gets at point better-

If what’s being reported is true, it’s horrific and unconscionable. It’s also part of shameful, deeper history of reproductive injustice and racism. I think for-profit care/detention systems important part of dynamic

https://twitter.com/aurabogado/status/1306010013010452481?s=21 https://twitter.com/aurabogado/status/1306010013010452481