Report outlines how Indigenous survivors of coerced sterilization can pursue new pregnancies

A new report looks at how Indigenous people who have experienced coerced or forced sterilization may be able to pursue future pregnancies.

The report by the University of Ottawa Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics and the Survivors Circle for Reproductive Justice outlines the options, costs and barriers for survivors of coerced and forced sterilization to restore fertility.

The options outlined include tubal ligation reversal, in vitro fertilization (IVF), surrogacy and egg donation.

“This is an opportunity, a possibility that many may have never dreamed of being an option,” said Harmony Redsky, executive director of the Survivors Circle for Reproductive Justice.

Redsky, who is from Wasauksing First Nation in Ontario, said this is just the beginning of figuring out how survivors c