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'Author and activist Morningstar Mercredi is calling for the criminalization of
forced and coerced sterilization, in the hopes that women — especially First
Nations, Inuit and Métis women — will never suffer the physical and mental
trauma it inflicted upon her.
"I knew that lending my voice to my experience as a survivor was critical and
important. Not only for my own process [but also] to let other survivors know
that they can come forward. They are not alone," she told
White Coat, Black
Art host Dr. Brian Goldman.
When Mercredi was 14 years old and in her seventh month of pregnancy, she went
to a hospital in Saskatoon after experiencing cramping and spotting. She ended
up having a C-section.
What she didn't know, however, was that the surgeon also performed a tubal
ligation, removing her left ovary and fallopian tube, without her knowledge or
consent.
She didn't find out about it until a visit to a gynecologist decades later,
when she was in a relationship and wanted to have children.'
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
