"...on route to the OR, their doctor added tubal ligation, [to a consent form]"
"There are 5 proposed class actions in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Quebec involving thousands of Indigenous women, according to Lombard."
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"The Senate is expected to release recommendations today to end forced and coerced sterilization in Canada.
The committee on human rights has been looking into the issue and is holding a press conference at 11 a.m. to talk about its new report."
OMG! I've never heard of this and it has been going on for how long? Nazi Germany wasn't the only country to perform such surgeries. The United States passed legislation in 1937 permitting Indiana doctors to operate. Several other countries as well. http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2017/ph241/payzer2/