“What they did to my mother was torture,” Alison Steel, now 65, says from Knowlton, Que. (Jeanie Steel likely suffered from postpartum depression.) Alison Steel keeps a manila folder full of her mother’s papers and old photographs. They stripped her of her emotions.”In the years after 1957, Jeanie would spend hours sitting in the dark, or in her room. I didn’t know where her mind was.”In 2015 Alison Steel initiated a legal action against the Canadian government, which also funded the experiments.

Source: National Post November 13, 2017 21:40 UTC