Canada's Indigenous women forcibly sterilized decades after other rich countries stopped

Decades after many other rich countries stopped forcibly sterilizing Indigenous women, numerous activists, doctors, politicians and at least five class-action lawsuits say the practice has not ended in Canada. In May, a doctor was penalized for forcibly sterilizing an Indigenous woman in 2019. Sen. Yvonne Boyer, whose office is collecting the limited data available, says at least 12,000 women have been affected since the 1970s.

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