WS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: The Maritimes, Reproductive Health, Norther
16 Apr 2017
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Canadian civil liberties association early 1970s: the negotiation requiring patients to submit to sterilization through tubal ligation was discovered in a hospital in the maritime provinces and in a western hospital . Norther study, 1992: abortions were being performed on aboriginal women without providing anesthetics. Sterilization arose out of the eugenics ( well born ) movement. Stop the reproduction of the unfit through sterilization in an affect to curb poverty: institutionalizing the non-smart people. In canada, eastern european immigrants, poor single mothers, and aboriginal women were disproportionately targeted. Sterilization also took place in the absence of legislation here in ontario. 1970 david lewis alleges that a formal program of sterilizing, aboriginal women exists in. 1973 a cbc public affairs broadcast alleges an intensification of this sterilization of the sterilization program to reduce the birth rate. 1978 rev robert lechat names six northern communities where women were being sterilized without their consent.
