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Canada’s Indigenous women forcibly sterilized after other rich countries stopped

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Much better information here than in that lousy article: this is the actual report, and it has a lot more details. Eg, jump to page 12 for people's stories. They sort of explain how this horror happened. It seems to be mostly during C-sections

https://sencanada.ca/content/sen/committee/441/RIDR/reports/...

> concluded “this horrific practice is not confined to the past, but clearly is continuing today.” In May, a doctor was penalized for forcibly sterilizing an Indigenous woman in 2019.

I find it interesting when people compare Canada to US and make it sound like a night and day liberal utopia of some sort in every way better than United States. Every time I hear that I am wondering if they know about forced sterilizations and pushing people to kill themselves in leu of medical care and such. On the surface it might seem all bright and happy but if feels there is a dark underside.

It's the same with Sweden. Sweden force sterilized the anti-social well into the 90s.in that country Europe's preww2 sentiments happy lifed on, with a nice social democracy coating. Astrid Lindgren does not describe reality in her books but a nostalgiautopia.

What’s an “anti-social”?

Very bad autocorrect of “Sami people” perhaps?

As a Canadian, the greatest source of embarrassment is when China criticizes our human rights past&present, and hits the nail on the head. It doesn't justify what China is doing, of course, but it's utterly shameful.

> Despite objections from other medical staff during the surgery, Kotaska took out both fallopian tubes.

Shouldn't that be grounds for criminal charges? Taking someone's organs without the patient's consent and against the objections of other medical staff should result in prison time not meaningless sanctions.

They also did lobotomies on indigenous women, up into the 50s.

My grandmother was lobotomized in Canada in 1952 right after the birth of my mother.

She went in to have 8 more kids that, like my mother, had to raise themselves.

I only ever knew my grandmother as an obese hoarder who, as a 60-something, loved McDonald’s happy meal toys. Like loved to play with them. People would say, “She’s as carefree as a child!” But even as a kid you could tell she was a broken husk.

The ramifications of these decisions are generational. I never really felt like I had a grandmother, and I know my mom‘s life was really messed up growing up because her mother was basically another kid in the house.

Every time my mother talks about government conspiracies, and how Covid vaccines can’t be trusted, and main stream doctors can’t be trusted, I have to remember where she came from…

This is a tragic story, thank you for sharing something so personal. Reading it feels surreal as if something out of a novel but recent discoveries prove otherwise.

In Alberta 58% of drug poisoning deaths are first nations. Between 2019 and now the expected lifespan for an Alberta first nations person has dropped from 67 to 60.

Peculiarly, they are also Alberta's fastest growing ethnic demographic, having grown 10% between 2016 and 2021, with the overall average being 4.7%.

Is the demographic change due to births, or what people write on a census?

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