The House of Commons has passed a long-awaited law criminalizing forced or coerced sterilization.
The law states that sterilization without legal consent constitutes aggravated assault, which carries a maximum penalty of 14 years in prison.
Survivors and advocates have been pushing for a change to the Criminal Code since 2015.
The Survivors Circle for Reproductive Justice estimates as many as 15,000 Indigenous people have been sterilized without their consent since the 1890s, some as recently as last year.
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Some physician groups, including the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada, warned earlier this spring that the bill could cause doctors to worry about how they treat patients in an emergency.
The bill was put forward in the Senate last year by Sen. Yvonne Boyer and now awaits royal assent.
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THESE N T I VES SPREAD THERE LEGS FOR A BOTTLE OF B EE R ! BIG FACTS, WELL DOCUMENTED
NEEDS TO BE KEPT IN EFFECT !!!
Will this apply to so called parents with gender dysphoria fetish, who willfully get their underage children surgically mutilated?
I was in an emergency room years ago and overheard the doctor tell the native lady that he just did her 9th abortion!!. Told her that he tied her tubes so she wouldnt be in anymore. She thaked him profusively. I damn near opened the curtain to thank him and congradulate her. Phyicians know what the score is.
Does this extend to the vulnerable and confused children who are victims to ideologically imposed gender dysphoria? Parents who transition their underage children should be charged with abuse, I am a gay man and ashamed to be associated with those derranged people.
So does that make it illegal for Liberals to mutilate 12 year olds in the name of DEI? After all, they can’t legally consent and are left permanently sterilized.
Or does this only apply to that group mentioned in the article who repeatedly give birth to children with fetal alcohol syndrome when told to stop getting pregnant?
And so starts the next round of Indian payout claims.