Compulsory sterilization in Canada
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See also: Sterilization of Native American women
Compulsory sterilization in Canada has a documented history in the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia. It is still ongoing as in 2017, sixty Indigenous women in Saskatchewan sued the provincial government, claiming they had been forced to accept sterilization before seeing their newborn babies.[1] In June 2021, the Standing Committee on Human Rights in Canada found that compulsory sterilization is ongoing in Canada and its extent has been underestimated.[2]
Canadian compulsory sterilization operated via institutionalization, judgement, and surgery, similar to other nations at the time.