This one is over a book (Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope) by one of the winners of a Time Magazine 2025 Earth Award, "environmental justice" activist Catherine Coleman Flowers. For another recent suit over the same allegations in a different book, see Libel Lawsuit over Critical Race Theory Book That Accused Doctor of "Mass Hysterectomies". For a decision in favor of Dr. Amin against NBCUniversal, see Judge Concludes NBC's Allegations of "Mass Hysterectomies" by Doctor at ICE Facility Were False, May Have Been Knowingly/Recklessly False.
From the Complaint in Amin v. Spiegel & Grau LLC (S.D.N.Y.), the passage from the essay in the book:
On September 14, 2020, in a footnote to President Donald Trump's unconscionable treatment of migrants, a nurse named Dawn Wooten, who worked at the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia, filed a whistleblower complaint. She said that Dr. Mahendra Amin—the center's leading doctor who was not even a gynecologist—allegedly told nearly every woman who went to see him that she had to have a hysterectomy. Wooten referred to him as a "uterus collector."
Adding to this atrocity, Dr. Amin spoke no Spanish, and many of the vulnerable, detained women he violated spoke no English. The New York Times reported, "Both the reviewing doctors and all of the women interviewed by the Times raised concerns about whether Dr. Amin had adequately explained the procedures he performed or provided his patients with less invasive alternatives. Spanish-speaking women said a nurse who spoke Spanish was only sporadically present during their exams." They did not have the faintest idea what he was doing to them. Meanwhile, as an independent physician who was under contract with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, this doctor was paid for each individual procedure that he executed.
