The two lead plaintiffs say doctors tied their tubes without asking after they gave birth at their respective hospitals for a fifth time.
The lawsuit states that three doctors violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and Quebec’s civil code and owe unspecified damages to the lead plaintiffs, identified as U.T. and M.X., as well as all Atikamekw women who have been subjected to forced sterilizations.U.T. and M.X. both say they were subjected to tubal ligation without their consent after giving birth at their respective hospitals for a fifth time.
The plaintiffs blame an “unnamed integrated health and social services centre” for what was done to them, per the Canadian Press. The lawsuit states that the organization allowed these “criminal acts” to be “perpetrated with complete impunity by doctors.”that the three doctors named in the suit have said that the requirement for patient consent for sterilizations “would interfere with the right of doctors to make their own decisions when delivering care to patients.
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