New research shows the forced sterilization of Indigenous women is not just a shameful part of Canadian history. Tubal ligations carried out on unwilling Indigenous women is one of the “most heinous” practices in health care happening across Canada, says Yvonne Boyer, a Metis lawyer and former nurse who is now a senator for Ontario. “If it’s happened in Saskatoon, it has happened in Regina, it’s happened in Winnipeg, it’s happened where there’s a high population of Indigenous women,” Boyer says in an interview. Lombard says her firm will raise the issue of coerced sterilizations of Indigenous women at the UN Committee Against Torture this month. “The issue of forced sterilization of vulnerable people, including Indigenous women, is a very serious violation of human rights,” she says, noting it has gone on in Canada for a long time.

Source: National Post November 11, 2018 15:02 UTC