A proposed class-action lawsuit accuses the British Columbia government of “sexism and genocide” over a decades-long practice of coercing Indigenous women into sterilization and abortions.
One lead plaintiff in the case says she was handed paperwork authorizing doctors to tie her tubes for no “valid medical reason” just moments before a caesarean section procedure in 1983 at a hospital in Campbell River. “It’s always difficult to speak truth to power but the province must acknowledge what happened to me and others,” Davis said. “Never again can this be allowed to happen.”
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