Data reveals alarming obstetric violence toward Indigenous women in Quebec – CBC

May 27, 2026

2nd phase of report released Thursday, bringing number of testimonies from 35 to 132

Nearly four years after finding at least 22 Indigenous women that had gone through forced sterilization in Quebec, a group of researchers now says that number is much higher — and they’re asking the government to take its report seriously.

In 2022, the researchers at the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscaminque (UQAT) collected the testimonies of 35 First Nation and Inuit women as part of the first phase of a report that looks into obstetric and gynecological violence — including imposed sterilizations — endured by Indigenous women.

The 22 cases of imposed sterilizations documented in the research’s first phase took place between 1980 and 2019.

Data reveals alarming obstetric violence toward Indigenous women in Quebec – CBC

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