Bill to make forced and coerced #sterilization a criminal offence before Senate committee

Sen. #YvonneBoyer, the bill's sponsor, said she heard from hundreds of people who have been a #victim of coerced and forced sterilization. She told the committee that most recently she received a call in December from an #Indigenous mother who was sterilized without consent.

Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/forced-sterilization-criminal-code-1.7130097

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