Indigenous women kept from seeing their newborn babies until agreeing to sterilization, says lawyer as recently as 2017. Canada
This is appalling, sad, infuriating. Who DOES this stuff?
It was done by hospitals all over Canada and the USA
@AmmaRE007 but hospitals are institutions. Were these individual doctors and nurses who imposed their own beliefs on patients? Were there leaders who determined this should be policy?
@A2Jennifer It's unknown exactly .. and complicated.. they are conducting investigations.
Boyer, who is now a senator for Ontario, called on the Senate this week to study the scope of the issue nationally.
"If it's happened in Saskatoon, it has happened in Regina, it's happened in Winnipeg, it's happened where there's a high population of Indigenous women," Boyer said in an interview.
Listen to the full discussion near the top of this page.