WS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Reproductive Health, Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Sexual Sterilization Act Of Alberta
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Coercive sterilization: sterilization arose out of the eugenics movements (eugenics well born, based on race, stop the reproduction of the unfit through sterilization in an effort to curb poverty. In canada, eastern european immigrants (for example, hungarian women), poor, single mothers, and aboriginal women were disproportionately targeted: la operacion in puerto rico, also, social differences. Many were forced to take iq tests and other testings to get sterilization: sexual sterilization act of alberta: 1928-1972, sterilization act of british columbia: 1933-1973, sterilization in the absence of legislation. Coercive sterilization in the north: 1970: david lewis alleges that a formal program of sterilizing aboriginal women exists in northern communities, 1973: a cbc public affairs , 1976: Contraceptives to limit births: 1969 amendment to criminal code decriminalized contraceptives; Increased choice for some has amounted to increased coercion for others: birth control to curb poverty, depo provera as first choice option .
