A Quebec Superior Court judge has authorized a class action against three doctors accused of sterilizing Atikamekw women against their will.
One of the two women leading the class action — which is on behalf of all the women from the Atikamekw First Nation who allegedly didn’t consent to a procedure that impaired their fertility — says she was sterilized without any knowledge of it happening beforehand.
The other woman said she succumbed to pressure from one of the three doctors before the procedure.
The women are not identified in the judgment released Monday by Justice Lukasz Granosik, due to the sensitivity of what they experienced, according to
