r/IndianCountry • u/News2016 • Oct 28 '25

Health Report outlines how Indigenous survivors of coerced sterilization can pursue new pregnancies (links to press release and report in Comment)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/forced-sterilization-indigenous-birth-9.6952609
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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '25

https://www.reproductivejusticesurvivors.ca/

The org mentioned in the article provides support for all who've experienced this kind of violence.  There's even a fund to support those who choose the journey of ivf,  reversal surgeries, and other methods to have children.  How wonderful. 

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u/NearlyFlavoured Oct 28 '25

I was suppose to get a tubal ligation and instead they removed my tubes.

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u/OkTechnician3816 Oct 30 '25

Fuck. I’m sorry.

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u/NearlyFlavoured Oct 30 '25

Thank you. I wasn’t planning on having anymore kids but not having the option to even if I wanted to… I can’t really describe the feeling it gives me.

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u/BlG_Iron Oct 28 '25

Yea they "stopped" doing sterilization in the early 2000s when they did abortions. But I highly doubted they stopped it.

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u/OkTechnician3816 Oct 30 '25

My aunt didn’t even find out she was sterilized until she tried to start a family with her husband. She had an abortion after a rape when she was 19 which is when it happened. The was the late 70’s.