Canadian Police Won’t Investigate Doctor for Sterilizing Indigenous Woman

September 29, 2023

(Associated Press) – The Canadian government says it is urgently trying to end the forced sterilization of Indigenous women, describing the practice as a human rights violation and a prosecutable offense. Yet police say they will not pursue a criminal investigation into a recent case in which a doctor apologized for his “unprofessional conduct” in sterilizing an Inuit woman. (Read More)