'When she woke up, the baby was gone,' lawsuit says of Wet’suwet’en woman held down until unconscious.
Two Indigenous women in B.C. have filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against the province, alleging they were subject to forced sterilization.
The suit continues to say such sterilization of Canadian Indigenous women began in the 1920s, with many victims being women in labour or those who had just given birth. Roy is a member of the Wet’suwet’en Nation and lives in Chilliwack. As a teenager in 1998 or 1999, she became pregnant and was pressured to have an abortion, the claim said.
The practices, the claim said, have deprived Indigenous women of their reproductive rights and have had a “traumatic and destructive effect on the health, family relationships and culture of Indigenous women — and Indigenous communities in British Columbia.”
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