FACTS
Define Sterilizing women
Preventing pregnancy in women?
Name a victim of Sterilization
Melika Popp
Katy Bear
Morningstar Mercredi
How is Sterilization performed?
Surgical and Non-Surgical
Percentage of Indigenous women in the overall population of sterilized people.
25%?
Name a province that Legislated Sterilization.
Alberta
British Columbia
What is Eugenics?
A set of beliefs and practices aimed at improving the genetic quality of the human population.
When did Alberta have its Sexual Sterilization Act in effect?
1928 - 1972
Name the hospital that Melika Popp and Katy Bear got sterilized.
Royal University Hospital
What long-term impact has Sterilization had on Indigenous women?
Psychological and Physical Trauma