NBCUniversal settled a $30 million defamation lawsuit after several of the network’s biggest hosts falsely accused a Georgia doctor of unnecessarily — and without authorization — performing hysterectomies on illegal immigrants in an ICE facility.
NBCUniversal reporters Julia Ainsley, Jacob Soboroff and Danielle Silva published an article in 2020 based on claims by whistleblower Dawn Wooten, a former nurse at a Georgia ICE facility. The story identified Dr. Mahendra Amin as the “uterus collector” and alleged Amin was leaving women “bruised and performed unnecessary procedures, including hysterectomies.”
Hosts like Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace and Chris Hayes went on to falsely accuse Amin of performing, according to the lawsuit, “mass hysterectomies on female detainees at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in…
