A lawyer representing the woman addressed the Senate committee on human rights on Wednesday, saying her client’s doctor had demanded she sign a consent form for a tubal ligation while she was on the operating table for a Caesarian section
“She wished to have more children but was nonetheless sterilized immediately upon her newborn baby entering the world,” said Lombard, who is leading a proposed class-action lawsuit by Indigenous women who allege they were coerced into sterilizations in Saskatchewan.Lombard said her 30-year-old client, whom she referred to as D.D.S, was to have a caesarian section to deliver her third child at the Moose Jaw hospital in December.
“She believed she had no choice but to sign,” Lombard said. “She knew nothing of the risks, nothing of the consequences and nothing of the other birth control options available to her because the doctor never disclosed them.” Sen. Yvonne Boyer, who proposed the Senate committee study the allegations, said she found it “absolutely shocking that we are still having sterilizations performed without consent in Canada.”
Their report suggested there be improvements to how consent is obtained and a provincial policy related to tubal ligation. Previously, care providers could get consent right after a woman gave birth. The health authority says now there must be a documented discussion about tubal ligations between a woman and her health-care provider before she comes to the hospital.
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