WMGS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Family Medicine, Idle No More, Indigenous Rights
30 Sep 2016
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She spoke at the first idle no more teach-in in 2012, and since then has re- mained one of the leaders of the idle no more movement. She speaks around the world about the intersections of indigenous rights, feminism and environmental justice. Laws that prevent women having rights to reproduction. Women: tubal ligation (tubes tied), essure procedure (inserting coil thing into fallopian tube), hysterectomy (removal of uterus) The science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to in- crease the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. Selective breeding to improve the genetic composition of the human race. People thought that humans could influence human evolution by promoting the reproduction of people who were desirable. Need to determine who is desirable and who should be prevented from re- producing. Create a eugenics board that was given the power to recommend sterilization of certain people in alberta.
