The hatred this country has for people of color is staggering.
Remember that this was aimed at Native American women and sterilization of indiginous communities.
This has happened recently in Canada, in Saskatoon. Native American women were coerced into signing agreements for tubal ligation by doctors and nurses after giving birth to their children.
://cmajnews.com/2017/08/02/reports-of-coerced-sterilization-of-indigenous-women-in-canada-mirrors-shameful-past-cmaj-109-5471/
After I had my daughter, when I was 19, I had a Saskatchewan health nurse come into my hospital room, while my family was out, with a bunch of papers that I needed to sign. There was the birth registry papers, releases forms and information papers. But there was also a consent form for a tubal ligation in with all the others. When I asked the nurse about it she told me that if I choose to have a tubal ligation it could be reversed whenever I wanted and that I would never need to take birth control again unless I choose to have it reversed. I asked if they give this form to all women, she said no, just to women they believed would benefit from it. She really tried to get me to sign this paper. Until my family came back she then took the paper with her and never mentioned it again for the rest of my stay in the hospital. That was the only paper she took with her when my family returned.
I was 19, hasn’t slept in 48 hours, my family and support were away and I was dealing with a newborn baby. I was exhausted, frustrated and very very vulnerable and this nurse deliberately choose this time to come to me to sign a form that I should not of been signing in that condition. I didn’t sign because my mother had a tubal ligation after my youngest sister and knew that tubal ligations are very difficult/non reversible.
Water Witches 