Based on the Yahoo article, it looks like another exhibit in the argument against privately-run, for-profit facilities. And given the mountain of reports about how connections to the Trumps result in taxpayers being bilked out of millions for the purposes of enriching pro-Trump contractors, I suspect there’s at least an element of that in this case. This might not be as much ideological as it as just plain, lying in sight healthcare corruption.
Yeah, this isn’t a story about ideological terror; it’s a story about the disgusting degrees to which government contractors will go to enrich themselves when it assumes that there won’t be any oversight or legal consequences.
Evangelical leaders might be swayed by promises of money and political influence. But the evangelical base is where you get the votes.
Abortions and sterilization are strong issues with evangelical voters. And it’s not like Trump has offered them anything else for them to support him on. They’ve been standing on the Cyrus argument in which they can self-justify their support of Trump because he’s doing what they consider the right thing on abortions. When they find out he’s been lying to them, he’ll lose that base.
From this story, it looks like it is one particular doctor with a particular bee in his bonnet (or bat in his belfry) who is running open loop. It’s not a general policy, probably.
I’d like to know more about this doctor, I bet he is the kind of crackpot that seems to gravitate to the Trump administration.
There is ample evidence ICE is neglecting detainees. In some cases neglecting them to death.
You only need to find one to generate an atrocity.
Hysterectomies are “weirdly expensive” when done to American citizen medical standards. If all you care about is treating women like stray mutts to be spayed they aren’t so costly.
Whether it’s actual uterus removing, tubal ligation, ovary removal or some combination of the three, given the track record of the Trump administration I’d likely be more surprised if this wasn’t true.
It’s not secret to the people it is done to (well, once they figure out what was done - there’s always sterilizing people and not telling them they were sterilized). The difference is that the people it’s being done to (if this is true) are Spanish speakers and the “secret” is from the English speaking majority of Americans. The perpetrators are relying in part on a language barrier for protection.