Forced?

 

Indigenous women in Canada were being forcibly sterilized by state sponsored eugenics operations as recently as 2019.  A report last year concluded “this horrific practice is not confined to the past, but clearly is continuing today.”  In May of 2023, a doctor was caught forcibly sterilizing an Indigenous woman.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220722024420/https://sencanada.ca/content/sen/committee/441/RIDR/reports/2022-07-14_ForcedSterilization_E.pdf

The growing enthusiasm for eugenics thinking reached Canadian borders in the first half of the 20th century.  Even though forced sterilisation was already common throughout the territory, the Province of Alberta officially enacted the Sexual Sterilization Act (SSA) in 1928, followed in 1933 by British Columbia.  Considered the first Canadian eugenics law, this act legalised and regulated the sterilisation of mentally-disabled individuals.

Aggressive assimilation policies quickly extended these measures to Indigenous communities such as the Inuit, Indian, and Métis people.  While it is difficult to provide an accurate estimate, researchers agree that Indigenous women were disproportionately targeted.  Between 1966 and 1976, over 10,000 women would have undergone forced sterilisation in public hospitals, residential schools, and mental facilities.  And It has continued since then in more subtle and nefarious ways.

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