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Senator says she was never told her 2005 surgery would leave her sterile
Senator Gerba's case highlights systemic racism and misogynoir in healthcare as she supports legislation criminalizing coerced sterilizations affecting Black and Indigenous women.
- Senator Amina Gerba said she was never informed her 2005 operation at Montreal hospital removed her uterus, only discovering it years later, during a pelvic ultrasound.
- Gerba tied the incident to systemic racism in health care, using the term "misogynoir," and urged support for Bill S-228, which reached its final Senate vote on Oct. 2.
- Medical records and a 2016 pelvic ultrasound revealed the uterus removal after Gerba believed she had an endometrial ablation, and hospital consent forms were generic, with Gerba aged 44 and having four children.
- Earlier this month, Amina Gerba, Senator, told the Senate and colleagues applauded her disclosure; she said she refuses the "victim" label and feels responsible to represent those without a voice.
- Studies showing biased pain-treatment beliefs and reports from Indigenous and Black women provide broader context for Gerba's disclosure, with research finding half of white medical students offered less pain relief to Black patients.
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OTTAWA—A Quebec senator says that her doctor never told her that surgery in 2005 would make her incapable of having children. She hopes that her story will contribute to a broader awareness of systemic racism in Canada. Senator Amina Gerba told her story to her Senate colleagues earlier this month. She stated that she publicly supported the bill introduced in the Senate to criminalize forced or coerced sterilization. "I never wanted to be consid…
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