Re: another area to consider....work on....re:hysterectomy abuses....

[Guest guest]

So what potections should in theory, be in place in the USA?

Is there any affordable/free legal representation in such cases?

What bodies should such women contact and how do they go

about it?

Are Amnesty International aware? I remember reading a web

page once about Amnesty reporting on racism and the police in

a state. It may have been New York.

[Guest guest]

So what potections should in theory, be in place in the USA?

Is there any affordable/free legal representation in such cases?

What bodies should such women contact and how do they go

about it?

Are Amnesty International aware? I remember reading a web

page once about Amnesty reporting on racism and the police in

a state. It may have been New York.

[Guest guest]

> So what potections should in theory, be in place in the USA?

>

> Is there any affordable/free legal representation in such cases?

>

> What bodies should such women contact and how do they go

> about it?

>

> Are Amnesty International aware? I remember reading a web

> page once about Amnesty reporting on racism and the police in

> a state. It may have been New York.

Honestly, I don't know. But it does appear as though the health

abuses on the female imprisoned population here are socially extreme

and inexcusable. Sort of an attitude of either " they deserve it " OR

" hysterectomy will protect society from these criminals bearing

children " . But, I just don't know. Given the statistical data on the

types of crimes women in this country are typically imprisoned for,

even this type of sociological protective thinking doesn't make sense

to me. And, it seems a bit much to think that medical professionals

would buy into participating in this type of thinking. But, if claims

of prisoners are to be believed, one does have to wonder what IS going on.

There are many organizations across this nation starting to be formed

which are trying to bring this information to light. Apparently, the

female prisoner population has increased 300% in the last few years

and that increase has also meant visibility in greater numbers.

Incarceration for committing a crime is one thing.

Undesired/unwilling hysterectomy as a form of social justice and/or

punishment is quite another.

The pockets of medical abuses against women which continue to emerge

in my ongoing research and with greater and greater public contact

simply never cease to amaze and/or appall me.

Carla