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ICE & Forced Hysterectomies

The Department of Homeland Security has announced that it is looking into a whistleblower complaint that claimed federal immigration detainees underwent unnecessary gynecological surgeries–including full hysterectomies–without their consent. Dawn Wooten, the confirmed whistleblower, told Project South that many of the Spanish-speaking female immigrants at the facility did not fully understand what a hysterectomy was or […]

REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

Today, Donald Trump signed an anti-abortion executive order that has severe and far-reaching consequences for women’s reproductive health access worldwide. Trump reinstated the Mexico City policy, also known as the global gag rule, which was first put in place by Ronald Reagan in 1984. It prohibits giving United States funding to international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that […]