Mary Gay Scanlon: “Wow, that was hard to follow. Just to take a couple pieces there. There is no allegation here of mass hysterectomies.…”

“Wow, that was hard to follow. Just to take a couple pieces there. There is no allegation here of mass hysterectomies. What there are allegations of, which have been strengthened over the intervening 2 weeks, are allegations that numerous women were subjected to inappropriate medical care. And their medical records, as we begin to receive them, are starting to confirm that there were a variety of procedures that were committed upon these people without their consent, including total and partial sterilization, but a range of procedures. You know, Madam Speaker and I both come from Pennsylvania. We have seen this kind of corruption before in our prison systems, where you have a private prison system that gets involved in providing care--in Pennsylvania, it was called the ``kids for cash'' scandal, where public officials were being given kickbacks for interning children. Now, is that what is going on here? The investigation may substantiate that or it may not, but there is a lot that needs to be dug into: the appropriateness of the medical care, whether someone was profiting off what happened there, the humanity of what happened to these women. All of that needs to be looked into. That is what the resolution is asking for, that this be investigated, because the allegations are so serious, and everything we have seen so far has supported them. Now, the IG is moving to investigate, and Congress has started to investigate.…”