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Forced Sterilizations and Maternal Health in the Canadian Context

Maternal Health Task Force

Intergenerational trauma is defined as “the way in which trauma experienced in one generation affects the health and well-being of descendants of future generations”. In 1928, Alberta introduced the Sexual Sterilization Act that disproportionately targeted Indigenous women.