Forced sterilization a symptom of ‘colonial hangover’ says lawyer
By Dennis Ward,
Face to Face
| 04. 07. 2020
More than 100 Indigenous women in Canada have come forward with stories of forced or coerced sterilization and lawyer Alisa Lombard says it’s nothing new in Canada, nor is it illegal.
More than 100 Indigenous women in Canada have come forward with stories of forced or coerced sterilization and lawyer Alisa Lombard says it’s nothing new in Canada, nor is it illegal.
“I think that the practice of forced sterilization is symptomatic of a colonial hangover. And I think it has a lot to do with eugenics of course, these old ideas that some people should have children and others are not fit to,” Lombard told Face to Face. “Eugenics was a widely accepted theory not so long ago. It was a theory that was attempted to be brought into legislation in Saskatchewan and only failed by one vote.
“It was, in fact, brought into legislation in Alberta and British Columbia.”
Lombard is a partner with Saskatchewan based, Semanganis Worme Lombard and is heading up a proposed class action lawsuit representing Indigenous women who have been forced or coerced into sterilization.
Forced sterilization is a procedure more commonly known as getting your tubes tied, but without the proper and informed consent of the woman involved.
Those women, and potentially many more...
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