Nurse condemns forced sterilizations of inmates

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Dawn Wooten

In this edition of the People’s Tribune we continue to highlight voices fighting the assault on our lives by a system run to earn profits for corporations. Dawn Wooten, a nurse at a private immigrant detention center, put humanity first when she exposed the inhumane, illegal surgeries on women detainees who received unauthorized hysterectomies by a doctor dubbed the ‘uterus collector.’ Dawn said, “[Women] come back and ask, ‘Ms. Wooten, why did I have a hysterectomy?’ Nobody explained. One young girl said she wouldn’t have went if she knew he was collecting our uteruses. As a human, you don’t treat people inhumanely. Why is nobody hearing them?” Like so many in this country who risk their jobs and livelihood, Dawn Wooten could not coexist with an inhumane system that doesn’t care for ALL people. Her morality is that of millions. We can have a dictatorship by corporations or a humane America of, by and for the people.

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